You today, it is that we deserve, we need to feel two more things pride and hope. Pride because we have pulled together to weather storms like weve never seen before. Hope because we can see a brighter future. The fact is, the state of our city is resilient. And it is resilient because of what all of us, every one of us, have accomplished this past year. Im speaking to you today from asconi center, but i want to start a few miles from here at lagoona honda hospital. One of the Largest Scale nursing facilities in the country. 155 years since it was founded to care for aging pioneers, its served the neediest people of San Francisco through thick and thin. My grandmother, miss Camillia Brown spent her last 12 years in that hospital. Dementia had taken her ability to speak before she arrived, but it had never taken her personality, not all of it anyway. Miss brown loved chewing gum. She lost her teeth by then, but loved chewing gum the nurses and staff there would bring pieces in their coa
Harris Funeral Homes for six years until she told her boss she was going to live and identify as a woman. When harris homes responded by firing her, it discriminated against her because of her sex for three reasons. First, firing her for failing to conform to explicitly stated stereotypes about how men and women should behave. It discriminated against her in the same way as Price Waterhouse discriminated against anne hopkins for failing to walk and talk more feminine. It cannot be that anne hopkins would lose her case on the same facts. Second, harris fired her for identifying as a woman only because she was assigned male sex at birth. In doing so, they fired her for contravening a sex specific expectation that applies only to people assigned male sex at birth. Namely, that they live and identify as a man for their entire lives. That is disparate treatment on the basis of sex. Third, harris homes fired her for, and its owner words changing her sex. , that is discrimination in the same
Stereotypes about how men and women should behave. It discriminates against her the same way as Price Waterhouse discriminated against and hopkins for failing to walk and talk more feminine league. And hopkins that would lose her case on the same facts. Second, harris fired her for identifying as a woman only because she was assigned male sex at birth. In doing so they fired her for contravening a sex specific expectation that applies only to people assigned male sex at birth. They live and identify as a man for their entire lives. Is mistreatment on the basis of sex. Harris fired her for changing her sex, that is discrimination the same way firing someone for changing their religion would be religious dissemination. Harris would fire transgender men for being insufficiently feminine and transgender women for being insufficiently mass killing is as the government conceives none of these arguments ask the court to redefine or update sex. Minimum sex a assigned at birth based on physical
Foundation and our partner, National Review institute, we welcome you to our sixth annual Supreme Court review program. We also want to welcome our theyrs on cspan, whether are watching live or in one of he many precast rebe rebroadcasts. Before i introduce our moderator, who is back by popular demand, i will give a very brief Supreme Court update. Last term, my colleagues won two more Supreme Court victories for our clients we directly represent. We were especially excited about our win last june in nick vs. Overruledship, which a terrible 30 year precedent which prevented Property Rights owners from suing in federal court when the state and local governments took their property. The Supreme Court record is now 12 wins out of 14. We will soon have five petitions for review before the Supreme Court, so we are hopeful we can extend that win for liberty in the near future. The format for todays program is as follows. After introductions, our distinguished Supreme Court advocates will dis
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