Why the ruling in a women’s spa case marks a turning point in transgender lawfare

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A judge’s dissenting opinion in a transgender case regarding access to female-only facilities ignited uproar within the federal judiciary last week over the intentionally provocative language he used to describe the crux of the legal fight.

Judge Lawrence VanDyke, an appointee of President Donald Trump, declared in an opinion on Thursday that the appellate case out of Washington state is really about the government allowing, as he put it, “swinging d**ks” in women’s spaces.

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