Mick Hartley

This is a perfect example of the how the pieties of the Democrats, and the nice polite America they imagine they inhabit, are so easily skewered by the Trump approach. The case was brought by the Korean-owned Olympic Spa, who were appealing against Washington State’s ruling that they had to allow trans women – men claiming to b women – into their women-only spaces. The case was thrown out – with a dissenting opinion:

A Donald Trump-appointed federal appellate judge invoked the term “swinging dicks” three times in an unusually crass opinion involving a nude, female-only Korean spa, drawing sharp rebukes from 29 of his colleagues.

“This is a case about swinging dicks,” began a Thursday dissenting opinion from Judge Lawrence VanDyke of the US Court of Appeals. He said he would have ruled in favor of Washington state’s Olympus Spa, which had sought to bar transgender women from its spa facilities on free speech grounds.

“You may think that swinging dicks shouldn’t appear in a judicial opinion. You’re not wrong,” he wrote. “But as much as you might understandably be shocked and displeased to merely encounter that phrase in this opinion, I hope we all can agree that it is far more jarring for the unsuspecting and exposed women at Olympus Spa— some as young as thirteen—to be visually assaulted by the real thing.”

He went on to say that it “feels like the supposed adults in the room have collectively lost their minds” and criticized “woke judges’ willingness” to sacrifice constitutional rights “on the altar of ‘social progress.’”

Unusually crass, no doubt, but very much to the point. The assembled pompous legal minds had collectively decided that the rights of women and girls to have their own space free of male genitalia were of no consequence compared to the rights of men who claim to be women.

VanDyke’s dissent prompted a harsh rebuke from more than two dozen of his colleagues, who wrote separately to say that the US legal system “is not a place for vulgar barroom talk” and that VanDyke’s dissent “ignores ordinary principles of dignity and civility and demeans this court.”

Not half as much as their ridiculous decision demeans the court.