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US Appeals Court Panel Finds “No Authority” Requiring Trans Pronouns

Joseph Grabowski by Joseph Grabowski
January 21, 2020
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Last updated on January 28th, 2020 at 09:53 pm

The panel wrote that “Congress has said nothing to prohibit courts from referring to litigants according to their biological sex.”

NEW ORLEANS—A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on January 15 rejected a motion by a prisoner convicted on child pornography charges to alter the judgment against him to reflect his preferred name and pronouns.

The convict, Norman Varner, had argued that, since he had legally changed his name to “Kathrine Nicole Jett” and identifies as a female, references to him in the judgment sentencing him to prison should be altered to reflect these changes.

The Fifth Circuit panel rejected both arguments.

While the argument regarding his legal name change was dismissed on the basic of jurisdictional reasons, with the Court saying that “Varner’s… request does not fall into any… recognized categories of postconviction motions,” it rejected his demand for pronounal changes after consideration of the merits.

The court wrote that “no authority supports the proposition that we may require litigants, judges, court personnel, or anyone else to refer to gender-dysphoric litigants with pronouns matching their subjective gender identity.” It explained that, while practice varies from court to court, none of these practices creates a legitimate binding legal precedent.

Furthermore, the panel continued, “Congress has said nothing to prohibit courts from referring to litigants according to their biological sex, rather than according to their subjective gender identity,” adding that in some cases a court’s use of a “preferred” pronoun could raise concerns about judicial impartiality.

Varner, who in addition to the child pornography charges is also serving time for failing to register as a sex offender, has said that he hopes to undergo gender reassignment surgery soon. It is unclear whether taxpayer funding would pay for this surgery.  It is also not presently known whether Varner will try to appeal the Court panel’s decision.

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Joseph Grabowski

Joseph Grabowski

Joseph Grabowski was the Executive Director of the International Organization for the Family until August 2022. He also served as Director of Communications for the National Organization for Marriage. Joseph has a B.A. in Philosophy from Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook and M.A. in English from Marquette University.  Joe has appeared as an expert on traditional marriage and family in local and nationwide media, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Breitbart, and elsewhere. Joe’s writings on traditional marriage and family, as well as on Catholic Social Teaching and the writings of G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, have appeared in The Stream, Gilbert Magazine, Ethika Politika, and The Distributist Review, and he has spoken at several national conferences on the place of G.K. Chesterton in 20th Century literature and thought.

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