Deadline: Legal Blog-Justice Amy Coney Barrett's stance would further weaken transgender rights

[DSandra]

3. Just because she doesn't know the history of trans people doesn't mean that there's no history

Trans people like everyone else didn't fit in were hounded by police using Vagrancy laws until 1972. There was the infamous three articles of clothing corresponding with your birth sex informal rule to avoid being prosecuted for crossdressing laws (that were passed around the 1850's and weren't overturned until the 1970s. There were badge laws that required people who's appearance did not match their assigned sex to wear badges indicating their birth sex.

There is a huge history of being denied sex marker changes on birth certificates, drivers licenses, and other identifying documents. There's a huge history of transgender people being fired just for being trans. Sodomy laws also attacked transgender people.

Amy Comey Barrett doesn't know what she's talking about.