theunitofcaring:

The Supreme Court case on whether trans students have a Title IX right to use bathrooms (which will probably get punted back to the lower courts now that Trump stripped the federal guidelines that had been relevant to the lower court decision) is called Gloucester County School Board v. G.G., by his Next Friend and Mother, Deirdre Grimm. G.G. is Gavin Grimm, the student suing; by court rules, underage plaintiffs are described with ‘Initials, by [relationship] [adult litigant]’.

A bunch of the amicus briefs filed by conservative groups opposing Gavin’s right to use the men’s restroom make a point of titling the case Gloucester County School Board v. G.G., by her Next Friend and Mother, Deirdre Grimm. 

You’re not actually allowed to do that; you can’t just send the court amicus briefs with a different case name because you really really badly want to misgender a trans high school student. The Supreme Court sent them reprimands.

And… I’m just kind of speechless. I’m just kind of exhausted. Who on Earth cares so passionately about misgendering people that they will refuse to acknowledge the literal legal name of literal ongoing legal proceedings? It’s like if someone filed a suit against Trump but insisted on calling him Drumpf, only instead of a public figure we’re discussing a high school student. I can understand not understanding trans people or feeling threatened by the discourse around trans rights or just vaguely worrying that the whole thing is cover for your political enemies to make you a bad person. I do not understand being so angry at the courts using male pronouns for Gavin that you just pretend a Supreme Court case has a different name.