Join Erin Friday & Tish Hyman, along with WAR & CAUSE, for a conversation with Michael Gates, candidate for CA Attorney General. Why are CA Dems voting R in state races? More and more of us are absolutely done with boys in girls’ locker rooms, boys taking girls’ championships, & schools keeping parents in the dark about their children’s mental health. Hear @MichaelGatesESQ discuss his plans to enforce Title IX and stop schools from keeping secrets from parents. Co-hosted by @XxtraEstroGenny @listen2tish @ErinFriday75490 @CAcause25 xitter.cf/i/spaces/1DGLdZz…

“You want the passport to reflect the person's gender identity because it's all about identification.” That’s Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of Berkeley Law, endorsing the district court’s logic in Trump v Orr. His claim is that a government document (whose entire purpose is identification) should record a person’s feelings about their sex and not their actual sex. He’s blithely unconcerned about the consequences for women if we allow men to claim to be female. Also very unclear why we should let people falsify government documents even without the harms to women & children. Side Note: Any country that would be dangerous to travel to as a trans-identified person with your actual sex listed on your passport would be doubly dangerous to travel to while hiding your sex from authorities in those foreign countries. In the Mirabelli v Bonta case, Chemerinsky makes it sound like the Supreme Court swooped in and blocked California’s law itself after a lower court ruled it was permissible. I’m no lawyer, but I believe this to be a gross mischaracterization. The lower court found the law unconstitutional, then the 9th Circuit stayed the decision. SCOTUS vacated the stay and let the lower court decision stand while the appeal plays out. (Someone with more knowledge than me, feel free to correct me.) Chemerinsky brings up all these cases (passports, parental rights, female-only sports) to point out that SCOTUS is “very hostile to transgender rights.” This allows us to detail what Erwin considers trans rights: 1. Males’ right to compete in female sports and use female locker rooms 2. The right to hide your sex on government documents 3. Schools’ right to keep secrets from parents about their kids’ mental health, despite the fact that the entire faculty and student body will know this “secret.” Personal Note: I spoke privately with Erwin 2 years and after briefly explaining the terrible situation in CA women’s prisons with male inmates he said he would look into it. He cannot claim ignorance. Video by @BLoquaciou72958 taken in San Francisco at Manny’s on July 15.