Amy Coney Barret asked a team of ACLU lawyers advocating for trans rights if trans people had ever really been discriminated against. newrepublic.com/post/189029/... - ThreadSky

newrepublic.com • 87 days ago

Amy Coney Barret asked a team of ACLU lawyers advocating for trans rights if trans people had ever really been discriminated against.

https://newrepublic.com/post/189029/amy-coney-barrett-question-supreme-court-transgender-case-hearing

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thedalyplanet.bsky.social•87 days ago

Good Catholic girl…

retiredsurgassist.bsky.social•87 days ago

The hypocrisy is pretty much what you would expect from someone who insist mythology is supreme.

susandtk.bsky.social•87 days ago

Does being murdered count?

katznjazz.bsky.social•87 days ago

Does she ever have contact with the real world?

davidjohnurban.bsky.social•87 days ago

Did she see any of those ads against Kamala Harris that MAGA put out? If not, she never opened a computer or turned on a TV.

civilm.bsky.social•87 days ago

Maybe if she didn't live in her weird fanatical religious sect bubble and spent time with the rest of America, she would already know the answer.

smlcrawford.bsky.social•87 days ago

Nancy Mace just gave them the perfect example of discrimination with Mike Johnson backing her up.

badmystic.bsky.social•87 days ago

Fucking lying bitch....

fubsywubsy.bsky.social•87 days ago

I long for the days when she was one of the worst we had to worry about.

themondopondo.bsky.social•87 days ago

she has to get off her knees and start paying attention to what is really happening

dogmomgigi.bsky.social•87 days ago

Aaarghhhh.

dralant.bsky.social•87 days ago

Trained ignorance.

babbm.bsky.social•87 days ago

No words 🤦🏾‍♀️

iwantcookies.bsky.social•87 days ago

What happens here is a foregone conclusion. Trans people stand in the way of the gop and their subjugation of women. The gop needs a clear separation of the sexes if they plan to put women back in the kitchen. Trans issues are just to make sure there is an absolute concrete separation.

youngpilots.bsky.social•87 days ago

She lives in a bubble, sealed in a box, tightly wrapped by her prejudice.

meangramma.bsky.social•87 days ago

Ignorance is bliss.

devlindilbert.bsky.social•87 days ago

I don't think she is really that ignorant. I think it is for her conservative base.

meangramma.bsky.social•87 days ago

So she's simply pandering to what she knows is wrong?

devlindilbert.bsky.social•87 days ago

I kind of think so. In MAGAt world it is about moulding perceptions. I mean she asked a question Trump's base would ask when I am sure a clerk would have researched the answer for her.

meangramma.bsky.social•87 days ago

That kind of self-serving laziness has cost us our republic. I wonder if the Senator thinks that Trump has yet learned that lesson she mentioned during the first (appropriate) impeachment.

cephrad.bsky.social•87 days ago

shes a religious nut job , put there for the sole purpose of fucking things up

raittafan.bsky.social•87 days ago

Hmmm? Has she ever heard the name Nancy Mace?

swhitewolf.bsky.social•87 days ago

Puppet.

bobtheangryone.bsky.social•87 days ago

This is a mirror of the Nazis playbook. Sexual minorities, Disabled, Elderly, People of color, Religious minorities, and then the Final Solution.

Congress is quing up the attacks on the Disabled.

We must stop The New Nazis.

shinyhappykaren.bsky.social•87 days ago

Wtf

slay-tanic.bsky.social•87 days ago

Shes getting them to expose the sources so they can be identified and targeted by their conservative regime.

ominous24.bsky.social•87 days ago

Women, too, Amy!

And all people of color & the Irish, Jews & Italians took turns, too.

Trans People are just the

“Other Du Jour”

Because snobbery & hate & fear of

“The Other Du Jour”

provide cover for Greed & Cult Zealotry to dupe the willfully ignorant to vote against their self-interest.

benkritz.bsky.social•87 days ago

Bruh. Talk about tone-deaf.

cherylhm.bsky.social•87 days ago

In the words of Bugs Bunny, “What a rube!” Just because she doesn’t know about doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.

sisuchick.bsky.social•87 days ago

Yikes!

newrepublic.com•87 days ago

“One question I have is, at least as far as I can think of, we don’t have a history—that I know of—we don’t have a history of de jure discrimination against transgender people.”

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ceenats.bsky.social•87 days ago

Is she sleepwalking through life?

datadiva.bsky.social•87 days ago

Ah yes, the community where for years the basic advice was 'move and start a new life where no one knows you' doesn't have a history of discrimination.

citizenjenn.bsky.social•87 days ago

Clueless. She lives in a bublle.

david-in-design.bsky.social•87 days ago

Wow is that a huge sign of cisgender privilege or what

paulwalker44.bsky.social•87 days ago

What the fuck is this babbling idiot talking about?

This single sentence shows how out of touch she is with reality.

raeleemaycarpenter.bsky.social•87 days ago

Oh ffs!

dhrichards.bsky.social•87 days ago

essentially "I've never experianced it, so is it really there?" That is not a serious question from a serious person.

gribblette.bsky.social•86 days ago

Oh, I think she knows very well. She's just playing the next fox news talking points.

noname4u.bsky.social•87 days ago

So disconnected

dfortkiewicz.bsky.social•87 days ago

Elites are so out of touch with reality 🤡

woodsybell.bsky.social•87 days ago

When you live in a Coastal area or near a prestigious urban area, it's hard to stay in touch with all the reality around us. We're still struggling with all the hoaxes.

crucialwax.com•87 days ago

I keep thinking these are onion articles.

realbeale.bsky.social•87 days ago

And people have actually presented her as a possible "savior" of the court?

williamwendt.bsky.social•87 days ago

Unbelievable

mjk4mj.bsky.social•87 days ago

October 2024: "Trump campaign's anti-trans ads are 'very disgusting': Trans activist" https://youtu.be/oyrL1GSKuCk?si=PgDwlJv7q0RqUdqO
"House speaker backs transgender bathroom restrictions ..." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2pknez94o
Barrett is clueless (and evil).

mjk4mj.bsky.social•87 days ago

She forgot (conveniently) that the First Amendment protects protesting. Years ago (before she was nominated for the Supreme Court) she said only lateral replacements are acceptable for the Supreme Court. Barrett is the opposite of Ginsburg. She is corrupt too: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/amy-coney-barrett-husband-jesse-fox-1235028838/

vladtheinhaler2425.bsky.social•87 days ago

Finger on the pulse of America. And she seems like, by far, the most concerned and engaged conservative in the group. Frightening for the Trans community.

woodsybell.bsky.social•87 days ago

I recommend she ask Nancy Mace.

maggiemck.bsky.social•87 days ago

JFC. Another low information voter

retiredsurgassist.bsky.social•87 days ago

I wouldn't expect much empathy and JFC is very popular, especially in the south.

myedison.bsky.social•87 days ago

Justices think of their questions well before oral argument and often vet them with their clerks. This is just...😳

kenyattayamel.bsky.social•87 days ago

Stupid

flopsie.bsky.social•87 days ago

I'm sure she meant beside the ones that were beaten and killed or were verbally abused. That would be only about 99.99% of trans people. If you included Threatened or enacted discriminating or punitive legislation that was threatened or enacted... well golly its 100%.

flopsie.bsky.social•87 days ago

Asking such a question really implies Ms. Barret is acting in bad faith.