Last week, The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a federal appeals court ruling that found people with gender dysphoria should be protected against discrimination under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented. According to Olivia Hunt, policy director for the National Center for Transgender Equality, by declining to hear the case, the Supreme Court implicitly acknowledges that the ADA protects people who experience gender dysphoria, including transgender and nonbinary people, from being discriminated against on that basis. The 4th Circuit was the first federal appellate court to determine that the federal disabilities law protects transgender people who experience anguish because of the disparity between their assigned sex and their gender identity. The decision is only binding in certain states covered by the 4th Circuit. They are Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. The case began when a transgender woman named Kesha Williams sued the Fairfax County sheriff in Virginia for her experiences in jail. Justices Samuel Alito said that the ruling will raise several important and sensitive questions on participation in women’s and girls’ sports, the use of traditional pronouns, and sex-reassignment therapy by physicians who object on religious or moral grounds. #Queer Up Courts