The upcoming Supreme Court case on transgenderism

This case is discussed here:

Supreme Court will hear cases in January on transgender athletes, gun rights, and Trump’s firing of Fed governor - SCOTUSblog https://share.google/letw0rFT8Z7DP3ayR , 

Tuesday, January 13, in this particular case.

We almost surely know how the three left-leaning female justices (Kagan (Jewish), Sotomayor (Hispanic), and Jackson (Black)) will rule - all in for transgenderism, however they justify it.

Likewise the four right-leaning justices (Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh).

The question is: 

how will the two centrist justices, Roberts and Barrett, rule?

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There are two questions which may have greater significance for women than for men:

A) Whether biological men should be allowed to compete with biological women, in sports leagues that were intended specifically and explicitly to be limited to women.

B) Similarly, whether biological men should be allowed into spaces such as locker rooms and dressing rooms that have been traditionally reserved for real women.

(A personal opinion: I don't think women, of any age, should be forced into nude situations with people of the opposite sex. Likewise for men.)

There are four women on the Supreme Court.

It will be interesting to see how they divide on these issues.

It seems probable that the generally conservative woman, Amy Barrett, will take the generally conservative position on this issue.

Will the three women appointed by Democratic presidents block vote on the left side?

How will they justify their position, if they take that side?

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2026-01-06

Here's a look ahead at the January 13 SCOTUS hearing:

Next Week's SCOTUS Hearings Could Redefine Women's Sports — What You Need To Know | OutKick https://share.google/WbOe4DbzJabJCMhVQ

"The justices will hear arguments in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J., 

both of which put state laws protecting female-only sports teams directly on trial. 

At the heart of both cases is a simple but hugely consequential question: 

Can states protect women's sports or not?"

...

West Virginia [is] asking the Supreme Court to answer two critical questions: 

Does Title IX require schools to allow transgender-identifying males to compete in girls' sports?

Does the Constitution prevent states from defining girls' teams based on biological sex?"

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More looks ahead:

"What the Supreme Court Is About to Decide for Our Daughters"

https://open.substack.com/pub/peachyradfem/p/what-the-supreme-court-is-about-to

"17 Simple Things You Need to Know About the Two Women's Sports Cases Coming Up at the Supreme Court"

https://open.substack.com/pub/strongerwomen/p/17-simple-things-you-need-to-know

The incredible intelligence of one year olds

Something that actually happened to me:

I was sitting in my chair in the living room of my house, reading something, when I felt something tugging on my pants leg.

I looked down and saw that my one year old daughter had crawled across the floor and was tugging on my pants leg.

I guessed what she was trying to tell me, and carried her up to our bathroom and put her on the toilet, where she did her business.

What really impressed me:

At an age when she was still crawling along the floor, 

she was able to identify what was happening to her, 

identify what she needed, 
and identify how to achieve that, by tugging on my pants leg.

The intelligence of one year olds!

She didn't need any "toilet training".

She just, I infer, observed what her parents did and and felt the need to emulate that.

This was just something she, not yet able to walk or talk, did on her own.

I was so impressed.

Kudos to her!

Difficult choices women face

Let me be clear:

I am a man, but I am aware of the various forces impinging on women, since at least the 1950s.

There are various forces trying to influence them, 

from those of traditional values 

to the more radical or "progressive" ones.

As I said, I am not a woman, but I can appreciate the difficult choices women have to make.

The worship of health care

There are two aspects of healthcare:

the individual and the collective.

At the individual level, it means living a healthy lifestyle, eating healthy foods and getting the exercise that promotes health.

I am all in favor of that.

But then there is the collective level.

Let me offer a hypothetical example.

Suppose someone is 89, and requires an expensive medical procedure to extend his or her life.

Should the broader society be required to pay for that procedure?

I say no.

What we are seeing in the 2020s, 

without the slightest regard for how much it costs or how much harm 

paying the bills for all this healthcare causes to others, 

especially to the younger generation, 

who are saddled with enormous debt caused in considerable part by today's grossly excessive spending on healthcare, 

is a grossly excessive amount of spending on healthcare.

We must be aware of the harm caused by unlimited, unbounded spending on healthcare.

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As to how the media has been part of the instigation of this problem, consider the Washington Post.

It alternates between promoting support for 

healthcare, 

transgenderism, 

and its true love, Ukraine.

The shooter walking around campus

Yes, that sounds melodramatic, but that really happened.

What is remarkable about this occurrence is that there seems to be, to date, no campus video recording of the perpetrator's presence on the Brown campus.

Why not?

Can just anyone who might be, and indeed was, a person out to harm students, enter the campus and leave no identifiable trace?

(Yes, that seems to be exactly what happened.)

Why was the Brown security system so inadequate?

 (BTW, 2025-26 tuition at Brown is $71.7K.

https://admission.brown.edu/tuition-aid/tuition-fees

One would think that would pay for pretty damn good security.)

The following post suggests an all too plausible explanation for Brown's security failure:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/12/17/brown-university-received-a-letter-from-34-human-rights-groups-in-august-requesting-they-disable-their-cctv-system/

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2025-12-18

Something that surprises me about this situation:

There is so little information coming out about what actually happened in the Brown University lecture hall, 186-seat Room 166.

Some reasonable questions:

1. How many students were in the lecture hall at the time of the shooting?

2. What did they see?

Surely at the time of the shooting, when they heard shots being fired, they would turn and look at where the shots were coming from.

What did they see?

The Brown student newspaper is covering this story here:

https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025/12/live-updates-active-shooter-at-brown-university ,

more generally its website is

https://www.browndailyherald.com/ .

I have not seen any answers to those questions there, to date, 

not in the general MSM.

Strange.

Generally the media rushes to give firsthand, eyewitness information on these things.

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Within Brown, there is dissent:

Second Brown police union issues vote of no confidence in police chief, deputy chief - The Brown Daily Herald https://share.google/ZZr2JAsqyj3OxgX2F

2025-12-18

For a thoughtful report on both sides of the issue of security cameras on campus, see

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/us/brown-university-surveillance-cameras-shooting-suspect

“We want to create dialogue, we want free and fair conversations, and you don’t want to feel like you’re under the eye of ‘Big Brother’ the whole time"