Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · Jun 30 Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in the trans sports ban case in West Virginia contains some of the ugliest transphobic stuff I have ever seen in a legal opinion. Straight-up gleeful. Vile man. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Yeah I'm gonna blog it
The people that wrote it should be in an asylum
Cause for removal per ipse.
We analyzed that exact case if you want the full context of Thomas's concurrence alongside the legal arguments: https://scotusgate.com/case.php?number=24-43
…and Clarence Thomas is not a human being, regardless of his misguided belief that he might be one.
Interesting that he doesn't see to realize there are trans men, if I'm phrasing that correctly. Is it that only the "men and boys" part turns him on?
Biologically speaking he is correct. But not everything is genes and biology.
This bullshit is based not on law or science, its based on bigotry. Yes he is a vile person.
I see his understanding of gender is on a par with his understanding of law.
the "biological" descriptor always seems wrong to me I'm not expert, but it seems like transitioning induces biological changes, so yes, your "biological sex" can change, no? www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
Clarence Thomas already earned enough bad karma that his next ten thousand reincarnations will be as a cockroach, what’s a few dozen more in the face of that?
So sad
1) Thomas is flat wrong about 'binary' gender. Gender "assignment" at birth is sometimes arbitrary. Intersex births include dozens of conditions that make gender anatomically ambiguous. The doctor and parents must choose. It's as common as redheads, and the choice is often wrong.
Fucking corrupt cocksucking cunt.
So many just fundamentally false statements in just this one page.
claRVence should stick to what he knows, which is accepting bribes and sexually harassing women
People who side with insurrectionists are not patriots, even if they believe they are.
OK, I get you disagree with his summation of the issue, but I'm not getting the "ugly" and "transphobic" charge you make. This would not be worth commenting on except that any disagreement with many trans right advocates leads to the same false accusations and avoidance of any real issues.
Also just factually wrong. Binary literally admits not knowing that intersex humans exist.
HAHAHAHA!!! Citing philosophy writings as "authority" for asserted "biological facts". LOL!
Have they forgotten there are also TRANSMEN? Where is their place in society according to the transphobes?
Is that why he chuckled yesterday when asked about the opinions coming out today?
Clarence F*cking Thomas was caught at Mike Johnson's office yesterday! Now, we know why!!! The corruption NEVER ends with MAGA. I wonder what he was offered this time?
This might be worse than Scalia's Lawrence v. Texas dissent, which I didn't think was possible
When did Clarence Thomas become god? Did I miss it?
As well as scientifically illiterate. Please let me live long enough to this court brought to heel.
The cure for gender dysphoria is a well-supported transition, overseen by doctors, psychologists, and other providers who have the knowledge & care to take care of the person experiencing dysphoria.
apparently ol Clarence has a thing for not only pubic hairs on Coke cans, but women who are bigger and far more masculine than he. And who also seem to gaily support treasons.
Not the most significant detail but it’s worth noting that he’s factually wrong - sex is not binary, either
Thomas: "Torture them more and they will stop being confused biological whatever the hell"
Fuck Clarence Thomas the worst human being to exist beside orange man and many others.
I hope really bad things happen to him. That is legally protected speech and does not constitute a threat.
Justice Three-Fifths should hang, as should the whore he "married". Just expressing 𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕 ideology. 😉
Stupid fucking religious asshole, race-traitor, abuser of women, and and corrupt Justice are Clarence Thomas’s own immutable characteristics. And he’s no Man either, just a “boy” playing dress-up in a robe for his billionaire patrons. Like those lawn jockey hitching-post “boys” on the plantations.
But Hunter Biden… www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-ne...
Fuck the Supreme Court
To anyone who has even had high school biology, he sounds like such an ignoramus.
Why was Clarence Thomas visiting Mike Johnson yesterday at the Capital? bsky.app/profile/robe...
At the point where they’re so anti science that it wouldn’t be surprising if they said “the Earth is flat and this fact is immutable”. Completely detached from reality and scientific consensus.
The phrase “object of psychiatric treatment,“ should be a real warning sign as to where this is headed. Mental hospitals, drugs, and electric shocks are not too distant in the future.
It should not be lost on people that Alex Byrne who is cited here as the source on defining gendered terms is the philosopher notoriously involved in the writing of the RFK Jr. DHHS report on youth gender-affirming care.
Fuck Thomas. (U of U, SLC, 2019 protesting a Ben Shapiro appearence)
He is such a piece of shit
Ignoring intersex people is a lie. This will be his legacy. Just a malicious activist judge.
And it's not biologically accurate. No matter how you feel about this decision, the fact that Thomas totally eschews science is maddening.
It also really bother me that pundits keep referring to it as men playing in girls sports. Not men in women sport or boys in girls sport but men in girls. Words matter. All kids should be free to participate in sports.
Well if you can’t be a racist you trample on other minority rights. This opinion is a thinly veiled attempt to establish a religion-driven view as constitutional. Biology for the win!
Maybe that evil, repulsive fuck should self terminate. Waste of human flesh, subhuman monster.
I hope he gets eaten alive
What about people who are born with both sex organs?! Geez, these MFing SCOTUS 6 are rewriting what America should be. WTF!
Truth hurts
hey, thanks again joe biden, for giving us clarence thomas.
General Casimir Pulaski, one of george washington's greatest generals, & one who saved his life, was intersexed. what does anita hill's abuser have to say about that.??
Sex and national origin are immutable? Welp, I guess none of us went through puberty, and some of us are Yugoslavian.
…and they both have public hair, which is funny to put on a coke bottle…
I bet Clarence Thomas thinks Becky is enough of a girl to want to have sex with her, though 🤮
I hope he dies on January 21, 2029
His source? A cherry picked Catholic philosopher who even admits that his position is in the minority of Philosophers, never other disciplines such as Anthropology, Biology, Sociology etc. Thomas is wholly unqualified to be a SCOTUS justice.
Fuck you Supreme Court I hope us breeders just keep creating more and more trans people till they take over the world🥰
He's also wrong
Well they’ve taken abortion off the table and transgender rights are off the table. What will they dangle in front of the religious bigots to entice them to vote now?
Weirdly, Thomas believes that race IS an immutable characteristic but doesn't think govt should do anything about racial discrimination either. Apparently, his take is that discrimination is always ok (unless it's purportedly against white people), just with a shifting rationale.
Same guy that puts his pubes on a coke can
He should take a biology class
men in robes with legal dysphoria are not justices, even if they believe that they are
Fucking pig
If only the Senate, which included Joe Biden, had listened to Anita Hill. I watched the hearings and I knew who and what he was.
I dont think Thomas has ever met a disenfranchised minority group he wouldn't fuck over while being viciously phobic including his own.
it's cool and good how just incorrect this is
This is Scalia level bigotry.
Quite the meltdown over this in your comments. Lots of people still seem compelled to pretend that trans girls are actual girls which is hilarious 🤣🤣🤣. Seeing the same level of craziness on the right wrt birthright decision. Looks like SC made the right decision in both cases.
He is bought and paid for like any prostitute.
I hope this motherfucker enjoys the afterlife of Hell.
Please look for your local trans groups and send money for support. Get involved. Cis white straight women especially- we MUST join the fight. We have the most privilege and power to use our money, voices, and bodies. #transrightsarehumanrights
Christofascists are not good people, even if they think they are.
Dear ChatGPT. Hi, can you find me a cool quote that says boys are boys and girls are girls .... only it sounds super smart? Thanks Clarence.
Maybe he should write up something about a black man that hates the fact he is black. He has spent his life looking in the mirror with terror and hatred that he passes pawns off by blaming others for his own failures
They seemingly have no empathy for any fellow citizen. It’s all demeaning pronouncements from on high by the only people who matter: themselves.
Nastiest concurrence coming out of the Supreme Court since segregation.
Ginny is the leaker
Ugliest stuff in a legal opinion = normal primetime content on Fox News. :)
We've got hardcore anti-intellectuals doing our rigorous thinking.
it's true though. just because you want to silence the obvious by labeling it bigotry doesn't mean it's bigotry. what an insult to women/girls to call a hormone-treated boy a girl.
His statement is factually incorrect
Yesterday Thomas was in the halls of Congress & wouldn’t answer the reporter questions why he was there! I 🤔 to give a heads up in the votes, potential outcome & discuss his retirement before the 11/3/26 election so he can be replaced before impeached if the blue tide flips House & Senate!
“psychiatric treatment” I wonder what he meant by that doubt anything good.
He’s pond scum.
It's a plain statement of fact. If trans women were no different from women then they wouldn't be called trans women, they'd just be called women but they're not, they're males who believe they are women. There's nothing wrong with that of course but the differences are plain and self evident.
Hmmm. I don’t see “intersex” in the decision. Surely, they considered everyone…or not so much.
He’s gross. So gross. Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t all of these sports bans affect trans men and boys too? Like I know the bigots hype them up to be “protecting girls sports” but don’t they have to make the actual language of the law apply to both genders? Crazy to see a justice reverting it back like that
“Men afflicted by deep corruption and moral inadequacies are not real Supreme Court justices, even if they believe that they are.”
Ass
I Still believe Anita Hill.
he got his talking points from the speaker of the house yesterday
Not the point but... wait until Clarence learns where the word "girl" comes from
I'm a physician. Sex is not, nor has it ever been, binary.
This is horrific.
Weird because Clarence Thomas was a porn freak who was probably watching trans porn not realizing he may have been watching trans people.
Clarence Thomas will not see the light of heaven. Even if he believes that he will.
A man with racial dysmorphia ranting against gender dysmorphia.
Should have listened to her when he was nominated.
Impeachment proceedings for this cretin can’t come soon enough.
Not surprised.
This is how a rapist thinks.
HATE is popular with MAGA
They’re using trans people as the new boogeyman. Now that the dear leader has “solved” immigration a target goes on another minority. Their supporters are always looking for someone to hate. I began sharing this 10 years ago in hopes of people seeing they’re on his list. They don’t know their number
The supreme Court is not a legitimate body and needs to be burned to the ground, preferably with the six conservatives inside the building.
Fits in with his opinion on Skrmetti: "There are several problems with appealing and deferring to the authority of the expert class. (...) so-called experts have no license to countermand the “wisdom, fairness, or logic of legislative choices.”" So: To h* with science.
This is what we mean by “trans rights are human rights”. The dude thinks our identities are political issues that politicians get to decide on. He thinks he gets to divide people into groups and tell each one where they get to go and what they get to go. It’s segregation under different premises.
Funny, if I was so inclined, in 5 minutes I can find "research" that says black men are apes, not human.
Someone better do a genital check on Thomas to see if he's trans because he sure is presenting as a big pussy.
I wonder why he pivots to gender dysphoria since that wasn't the subject of controversy in this case. He just assumed that all transgender people have gender dysphoria so that he can opine his bigotry because conservatives are horrible evil people.
Cannot wait for this ghoul to fuck off into the sun and be forgotten
The highlighted passage is a statement of biological fact. To think otherwise is just woo woo
Nothing to cite check on that sentence.
It's sickening how trans people are wrongly defined under the gender identity nonsense in vogue; "sex is an incidental construct (🙄), so everyone is their asab with an undefinable essence of gender identity." Instead of the reality that sex is innate and trans girls/women are literal females. It's
What else could we expect from the guy who watches “Long Dong Silver” a lot. Should’ve listened to Dr. Hill.
People are disgusting. Shameful .
No scientific basis here at all. Typical…🤬
And again I will repeat, not biologically accurate. Wish these fucking ghouls would stop trying to use biology as an excuse for their bigotry.
As long as I get to keep my RV, I don't care!
Disgusting
CT may not be as smug if someone decides to “revisit” Loving… I guess he follows the CJRoberts school of thought (yay if it doesn’t affect you, nay if it does)
Sex is not binary no matter how often people in authority say so.
He wrote the two-page concurrence just so he could sling that filth.
Looks like common sense and exactly whayt most people outside your bubble believ.
I like how his references are 30-45 years old, which would be fine if this was, say, a conversation regarding geology. 🤦🏼♂️
So sick of these fucking fuck fuck motherfuckers. All of them. Trans people exist and trans rights are human rights.🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
I hope to be alive when this opinion is viewed in the same light as Dred Scott.
Let's ask Clarence to break down how Jesus was a male since his mother was impregnated by a ghost leaving Jesus with only one set if chromosomes.
Josef Pieper was against the Nazi Party before he supported them!
Clarence Thomas is a backwards, spiteful, corrupt, idiotic clod.
Wow. Talk about true colors. At his age, he doesn’t even bother to dress up his absolute contempt for other human beings. This guy has been and will always be an utter disgrace and bonafide POS.
His opinions are the equivalent of a batshit 80-year-old uncle posting to Facebook
I’ll make him a deal: he can talk about law all he wants and he can stay the fuck out of my lane unless he goes to school to get a Master’s/PhD in psychology.
There is so much that is self contradictory in his opinion. Self serving arguments drive this SCOTUS.
Where are the racists cops when you need one 😂
Clarence Thomas is worried about words used to “lie to the public”. Interesting. Seems like someone could make a federal case out of lying to the public and use this as precedent for punishment. There’s a lot of lying to the public happening at the moment.
Vile and completely ignorant.
Thomas never should have been confirmed. He was an Uncle Tom nominee by Reagan as a way to replace Thurgood Marshall as cruelly as possible.
I don't know, maybe it's wrong for me to say but I think the only Black man on the Supreme Court being a hateful bigot is bad for representation
Wow…
The primary motivation of repugnicans is chasing that high they get when they harm people.
More fan to fire, the way I understand it, this is way more than a Trans issue
Thomas cites the same Alex Byrne who’s an MIT philosophy professor, who co-authored the anti-trans care for minors HHS report back in November 2025: bsky.app/profile/flor... www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... (A philosopher writing a federal report on medical care…)
Dominionist! Dominionism is a cult of Christian political ideologies asserting that believers are mandated by God to take moral, cultural, & political control over secular society. Its goal is to establish a world governed by biblical principles & law prior to the return of Jesus Christ.
SHAME…….and there are people in Amerikkka who would ban Thomas based on the COLOR OF HIS SKIN!!! SHAME!!!!
He has no idea what he's speaking about.
1) Expand the courts 2) Term limits for Justices. No lifetime appointments. 3) Add new ways to remove a justice for misconduct or bribery.
Someone tell Caitlyn Jenner what her vile party thinks of her
All the terfs cheering this don’t seem to realize that this exact same argument is now going to be used to target all gay people as well
At the beginning of the page, he says being transgender is just a “temporary” situation “[like] mental illness”. So he’s just wrong, and seems to be of the “pray away the gay” mindset
And he did everything Anita Hill said he did
Fascist sex pest has what passes for thoughts.
Shocker
As a biologist, I'm very tired. "Immutable" is not a word that should be used anywhere near the word "biological"
It's almost like he is really wrestling with race - and this is a way he can twist that into a "reality" where the outcome is different than what he experienced.
He essentially says it’s a mental illness (history is littered with things being labeled as such.) But the right’s mantra is “you’re either a man or a woman” while they simultaneously comment on who’s a “real man” or that a girl isn’t very feminine. Sure sounds like gender is a social construct.
His words are vile and cruel.
He's quoting a book from a Catholic philosopher to justify.
Please pay attention to this, too, thanks! bsky.app/profile/stor...
The hideous force of extreme ignorance is strong with this one.
He is so utterly evil. Carrying and coddling such hate has to be exhausting.
he's cruel and hateful, while also so deeply misinformed and stupid.
Anita Hill would like to discuss more of her testimony.
thomas once again proves that he is an Asshat who should be impeached and thrown out
Gotta love someone who claims gender is biological and then cites the journal Philosophical Studies in support of the point.
If Clarence had his way, his Supreme Court vote would only count for 2/3rds of a vote anyway. Seems like he’d be happy to go backwards if that would please Drumpf.
So is he saying race is immutable and binary as well?
Also denies the existence, or even the possibility, of intersex people.
"the universe is only made of hydrogen and helium, we can ignore the remainder of atoms"
This will not only allow Republicans to remove transgender people from "ALL" public and private spaces. It opens the door to much more violence against the transgender community.
What a cruel human Thomas is
If sex is an "immutable BIOLOGICAL characteristic" as Thomas claims, then God, by definition, cannot be male. Unless God was "assigned male at birth" based random selection of X and Y chromosomes from God's mother and father. And God is composed of flesh and blood cells with 23 chromosomes.
Would you object as strenuously if he used the terms “male” and “female” or do you just consider any distinction between the sexes to be transphobic?
Our sense of gender identity has distinct biological underpinnings.
Once again, this is just anti-gay stuff from the 90’s and 00’s rebranded to attack trans people.
Weird how that last sentence applies so neatly to this opinion, and thereby argues against taking it with the seriousness it unfortunately deserves.
Trump must go now! RefuseFascism.org
Sex is not binary. Fuck you Clarence Thomas
This is about a kid who wants to keep playing volleyball. But for her living in a small enough town that everyone knows what’s in her undies, the topic would never have come up. Never stop saying these people want to inspect the privates of children. To make sure each child is placed in a hierarchy.
If he wants to keep men out of private spaces for women then he needs to keep men out of women’s healthcare and abortion issues
"Immutable characteristics" 🤔 is Thomas the same person as Stephen Miller???
As a non American it's always blown my mind that he was ever confirmed. I was a teen at the time but smart enough to see him for the vile piece of shit he was. Sadly, nowadays it's routine for the justices to be utter shitheels.
Straight up stupid. Straight up wrong.
Will nobody rid me of this meddlesome judge?
As ALL humans possess M and F characteristics at 5 weeks, ALWAYS potential for grey outcome. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
It would be great if someone with proximity to these rightwing assholes could surreptitiously obtain DNA from their wives; more than a few would discover their spouse doesn't have only X chromosomes.
Fuckin creep’s only interested in sexually harassing afab women
he's a vile angry little man
I'm looking forward to the impeachments. Y'all better vote in some people that are willing to do it
Thomas really thinks being one of the “good ones” will spare him when the takeover is complete.
