Forbidding Hatred

 AMONG THE CRAZIER DELUSIONS of the many embraced by American conservatives is that transgender people do not exist. Whatever the gender listed on one's birth certificate is the gender you are stuck with. Even if you transition to female surgically, complete with large breasts, vaginal orifice, and six inch heals, according to the righteous red neck right wing, god made you male, and male thou shalt remain. Whoa, Nelly, not so fast. Once again the tailor made by design supreme court has stabbed its evangelical benefactors int eh back side, legally, intellectually, by siding with the queer lovin' libs. The case involved a fourteen year old transgender boy who was told by his local school board to use the girl's bathroom, since according to his birth certificate she was still a she. He, however, didn't want to use the girl's restroom, because, well, he couldn't. Into the federal judicial system the matter went, up and down the appellate hierarchy for seemingly endless years, while he graduated and went on about his life. A federal appeals court ruled in his favor, that he is now a guy, and should use the guy's room, and the Supreme Court, six right wing justices strong, declined to hear the case, effectively ending the litigation in his favor. Thus is established the precedent. In essence, the high court informs the righteous right wing to shove their bathroom bills up their delusional, sanctimonious behinds. Now, all across freedom's land, folks'll be free to use the restroom to which their current, not former sex corresponds. Bathroom bills, a favorite perversion of the right wing, are now effectively flushed in every state, red or blue. Equal justice under law, the far right is once again painfully reminded, leans neither to right nor left, but remains precariously, tediously balanced in the hands of the blindfolded lady with the balanced scales in her wise hands.A cursory examination of recent supreme court renderings seems to indicate that justice favors favors progressive values as often as, if not more often than, conservative values. Recall, oh ye far right ideologues, that the conservative John Roberts court upheld Obama care three times and legalized gay marriage, sending conservative America into paroxysms of indignation and feelings of betrayal by their own kind. And now, this. Another blow to right wing religious righteousness. Not onlly that, but five'll get you ten that within the fairly near future, when the super conservative court, conservative by deliberate nefarious intent, upholds Roe v. wade, and women remain in control of their own reproduction, not because of any liberal conspiracy but because conservative jurists, well educated, usually can be counted to do the right thing, "right" meaning "correct".