I love this. I have a trans daughter and I've always been uncomfortable with some language about transitioning. My daughter has always been my daughter. Like everyone, as she got older, she learned more about herself and she shared it with us. But she's the same person she's always been.

I’m a cat person and I think your dog is beautiful.

I guess they kind of backed themselves in a corner with the "the president's orders are lawful by definition" thing.

They've got the pronunciation right, but, as we all know, the proper spelling is M'waukee.

To paraphrase my brother, "A person's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink."

Written by my pal Garland Jeffreys!

It's a thankless task, but someone's got to do it.

I don't know, but it seems like we could come up with consistent principles that make sense from a first amendment perspective.

Following up: what if a state university prof is an agent of the state vis-a-vis their students (so, they do not, for example, have the "first amendment" right to deadname), but the student's first amendment rights don't extend to submitting non-complying religious propaganda in lieu of homework?

4/4 right to turn in a substandard response that does not meet the criteria for the assignment. The prof. now has no first amendment rights or academic freedom and the student suddenly has the right to turn in whatever the heck they want.

3/4 Even though the prof. is a state employee and the student is a private citizen, because "academic freedom" or something. But when a state university prof. gives a bad grade to a conservative student, all of the sudden the prof. is a state agent and the student has the first amendment ...

2/4 For example, when a state university prof. does something malicious, like deadname or misgender a trans student, we treat the prof. like they're not agents of the state, that they have the first amendment right to deadname/misgender, and the student has *no* rights vis-a-vis the prof.