Josh Hammer

Wow. A Fifth Circuit panel has just divided on the question of whether a biological male defendant can opt to be addressed with female pronouns.

"We decline to enlist the federal judiciary in this quixotic undertaking,” concludes the majority.

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“[N]o authority supports the proposition that we may require litigants, judges, court personnel, or anyone else to refer to gender-dysphoric litigants with pronouns matching their subjective gender identity,” writes Judge Duncan for the panel majority.

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www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/19/19-40016-CR0.pdf

"Quixotic undertaking" is just legally respectable language for what they really want to say:

"Don't bring that crazy shit anywhere near me!"

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