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I’m Making a Scene Over This Shower (& Bathroom) Law
It’s scary, so let’s film-crit it out. Famously directed by the U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit. Set in Idaho public schools.
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit came out with an opinion about which gendered public bathroom people should use.
Erin Reed explains it’s a “devastating precedent” as “the first significant decision in which Democratic-appointed judges have ruled against transgender protections.” It “prioritiz[es] cisgender discomfort over the tangible harm faced by transgender people” and delivers a “legal framework” for trans people to “be forced to live as their assigned sex at birth.”
The case is Roe v. Critchfield. Morgan Christen wrote the 36-page opinion. Kim McLane Wardlaw and Mark J. Bennett were the other two judges on the panel.
At issue was Idaho Senate Bill 1100 that requires public school students in Idaho to use the restrooms designated for their “biological sex,” unless they submit a “written request for reasonable accommodation,” in which case they’ll be allowed to use a single-occupant restroom. A student who encounters someone of the “opposite sex” in a multi-person restroom can sue the school for $5,000.
