The majority opinion of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, the second highest court for the Pacific rim states, in
OLYMPUS SPA; et al., Plaintiffs - Appellants, v. ANDRETA ARMSTRONG, Exec. Dir. of the Washington State Hum. Rts. Comm'n & MADISON IMIOLA, Defendants - Appellees., No. 23-4031, 2026 WL 700882, affirmed a Washington State statute that was enforced to require a nude, female-only spa to admit males who consider themselves females. I am highlighting the dissenting opinion, omitting certain language that appears in a published judicial decision that may violate TOS (complete language may be obtained by viewing decision or the blog discussion). I think, shorn of this language, the dissent by Judge Vandyke gets it right:
Above the Law - A Legal Web Sitewrites in
‘We Are Better Than This,’ Say Ninth Circuit Judges Despite All Evidence To The Contrary:
I personally believe that SCOTUS’s decision in the case which held that the State of Colorado could not force a bakery to bake a cake celebrating a gay marriage excuses private businesses from having to allow patently offensive conduct on their premises. I do not believe that minor children should be exposed to cross-gender nudity either in furtherance of a “Frankenstein social experiment.”