Last week, a federal judge in Tucson, Arizona, ruled in favor of the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction blocking a state law that would prevent males from participating in girls’ sports. Arizona’s Save Women’s Sports Act was passed in 2022 and signed into law by then-Gov. Doug Ducey, ensuring that “…athletic teams or sports designated for ‘females,’ ‘women,’ or ‘girls’ may not be open to students of the male sex.”
Prior to the law’s passage in 2022, the Arizona Interscholastic Association (AIA) had a policy allowing males to play on girls’ sports teams if they submitted a request that was approved by a “committee of medical and psychiatric experts, and consistent with AIA health and safety policy and if not motivated by an improper purpose.”
Arizona is not the only state to pass a law protecting girls’ sports. At least 20 other states have passed similar laws, most of which are also facing legal challenges.
A preliminary injunction is an extreme legal remedy. It prevents a law from going into effect and it is only granted if the plaintiffs can prove the following elements:
They are likely to succeed on the merits of their claims.
They are likely to suffer irreparable harm in the absence of preliminary relief.
The balance of equities tips in their favor.
An injunction is in the public interest.
However, the order, written by Obama-appointed Judge Jennifer Zipps, makes numerous “findings of facts and conclusions of law,” most of which sound like gobbledygook pulled straight from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health website.
According to Judge Zipps, the plaintiffs are likely to succeed on their claims that the Arizona law is unconstitutional because the two transgender plaintiffs, 11 and 15 years old, respectively, have taken medication that prevents them from going through male puberty. Or, as Judge Zipps puts it:
The testimony by Drs. Brown and Hilton that boys have some biological advantages related to physical fitness before puberty does not support a conclusion that Plaintiffs [who are biological males], who have not experienced male puberty, have any athletic advantage over other girls or pose a safety risk to other girls by playing on girls’ sports teams.
The order also finds it necessary to make a finding of fact the typical bogeyman used by pro-trans advocates, which is that the risks to children if not allowed to “transition” include “anxiety, depression, eating disorders, substance abuse, self-harm, and suicide,” as well as discrimination and harassment. These statistics are arguably exaggerated at the very least.
The order finally holds that unless the plaintiffs are allowed to play girls’ sports, they will suffer “irreparable harm,” not just because their constitutional rights are being violated, but because it would be humiliating and painful if they are not allowed to “live as girls in all aspects of their lives,” including athletics. Apparently living as girls in all aspects of their lives is an essential part of the treatment for their gender dysphoria….
From the Federalist
I wish there were an automatic cure for being a Democrat. I’d do whatever it took to put that stuff in the air all over the country.
But these boys aren’t girls, they must be told this truth, not coddled by wimpy parents and judges. Honesty and therapy much needed here.
The opinion dose not make sense. It’s a lot of Obama gobbledygook.
Girls are harmed when they do.
Whatever happened to equality for women and girls?
Maybe pro athletes are harmed when they can’t compete with junior high school athletes?
Should they be able to participate in the Special Olympics? Kindergarten playground games?
I’m harmed when you don’t pay me $500k per year to post on social media websites. So you must hire me. It’s my constitutional right.
“…does not support a conclusion that Plaintiffs [who are biological males], who have not experienced male puberty, have any athletic advantage over other girls or pose a safety risk to other girls by playing on girls’ sports teams.” The judge’s myopic concern over “fairness in competition” overlooks the fact that girls now have to dress/undress in front of biological males who could care less what the girls think, as long as their narcissistic delusions are validated. Moreover, I have yet to see studies which show drugs delaying puberty are safe for males, as this should be first and foremost established before allowing their use. If such studies exist, I for one would like to know. Finally, the judge accepts the premise that it is normal for boys to want to become girls, so that a complete experience of girlhood should be granted these boys. That is so sick, only a very morally sick person would take this hook, line and sinker. She has no compassion for these boys who aren’t old enough to think through what is going on, and are doubtless manipulated by some very sick adults.
Democrat judges often copy from leftist sources. Have you read how Ketanji Jackson’s opinions have included erroneous content from her favored sources? The Democrats on the Supreme Court, and Democrats in the federal judiciary are among the dumbest on the bench. The Biden crime family didn’t have the favor of having Hunter’s case go before a Democrat judge, who would have rubber-stamped the ridiculously lenient plea deal that included immunity for all other possible related crimes. The Republican appointed judge said no way. Republicans can be trusted with governance and sentencing. Not Democrats.
If you had an organization that had made a decision, would you want the government making a law that says you have no right to make the decision for your own organization?
Spoken like a mafia boss.
Who even thinks like that?
Talk about twisting things.
I don’t know what mafia bosses speak like.
I know about the constant erosions of civil rights.