@nbenas
St. John’s law professor; interested in gender theory, critical legal studies, law and philosophy, and political theology; author of Secular-Christian Social Justice (forthcoming, NYU Press 2026) coffee and cinema lover; they/them 🏳️⚧️
My new work in skrmetti and transgender rights is now on ssrn. It is about the Court’s Gender Trouble and the possibility of recentering transgender rights on “sex”
Comments welcome!
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I was moved by Coates here. I guess learning through pain makes you wiser.
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A flyer for the event with similar infomation as our post. Inundations: Permeable Bodies and the Law - Weds Sept 17 in Jeffries Hall 1020
Join us as our Environmental & Energy Law Program kicks off its 2025-26 lecture series.
Professor @margotpollans.bsky.social will discuss "Inundations: Permeable Bodies and the Law."
📆: Wednesday, September 17
🕑: 12:00 - 1:00 PM
📍: Jeffries Hall 1020
This event is free and open to the public.
What an honor to receive this award alongside @margotpollans.bsky.social @ariezra.bsky.social @darapurvis.bsky.social @ddangaran.bsky.social
Today's Skrmetti opinion is devastating to transgender children and families who live in states with cruel laws barring gender affirming care. But it is very important to recognize this opinion does not give private entities, legislatures, or the President carte blanche to discriminate! 1/x
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
honored to be included.
Exactly! Suspend the rule of law to encounter dangerous terrorists..
Ha?
Sounds fascinating and important. Can’t wait to read.
Online poster calling for an Economic Boycott on 2/28. The background is teal blue. It features a red, mildly alarmed-looking rabbit, and text that reads: Economic Boycott Don't buy stuff Friday Feb 28. We have power. No Amazon Walmart Target Fast-food Gas Ok Small business Use cash
Don't forget!
Friday (12:01am-11:59pm)
‼️#EconomicBlackout‼️
No spending money, ESPECIALLY no Amazon, Target, or Walmart, for 24 hrs, unless you absolutely have to (& if you have to, pls shop local & use cash).
Image @martharich63 (IG)
h/t @katiewhittemore22.bsky.social & @jesscraven101.bsky.social
The idea that courts will stop all of this is evidence of the crisis, not a reassurance that it wont arrive
Denmark please..
Rally for Trans youth NYC!
“Stand up fight back”!
Couldn’t agree more
happy to participate in upcoming Virginia Law Review symposium on legal, cultural, and political aspects of gender affirming care (February 6-7).
@jessicaclarke.bsky.social @katieeyer.bsky.social @kredburn.bsky.social @tyroclem.bsky.social
A page with the title "LGB Travelers"
‼️ The State Department has REMOVED TQIA+ on their page of recommendations for queer travelers. This page yesterday said "LGBTQIA+" and now just says "LGB".
The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.
This cert could explain why the Court refused to consider the Due Process parental rights claims in the gender affirming care case..
This was a terrific interview! Here’s a piece I co-authored about the gender regrets piece that comes up in this episode (and in the oral args)
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While his heart breaks for those families facing gender dysphoria, mine breaks for those families who treat a binary order of sex and gender ideology as divine gospel
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Important point of clarification from Chase Strangio: there is a history of de jure discrimination against transgender people, in terms of exclusions from the military, criminal bans on cross dressing, and other laws. (Don't forget marriage restrictions).
Such “concerns” about gender regrets are mostly thinly disguised patriarchal ideology
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just got this in the mail. Congrats @profbcrawford.bsky.social and @linniss.bsky.social
I am honored to be in conversation with this group of thinkers
Absolutely! Legalism has never been the way to defeat Decisionism.
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trans-blaming for recent election results is cowardly and misguided
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Listening to this episode about histories of queer and trans folks in the south is simply inspiring. Thank you Jules Gill-Peterson @slate
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