National Finance Corp. v. Robinson & Fidelity & Columbia Trust Co.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that transgender persons are a quasi-suspect class and are thus entitled to intermediate scrutiny
• noting that there are no openly transgender members of the United States Congress or the federal judiciary
• noting that there is “no indication that there have ever been any transgender members of the United States Congress or the federal judiciary”
• noting that transgender people encounter obstacles when there is a mismatch between the sex indicated on a birth certificate and the person’s gender identity, and that “transgender people often face backlash in everyday life when their status is discovered”
• “[T]he Court concludes that transgender people are a quasi-suspect class” and “[ajccord-ingly, the Court must apply intermediate scrutiny to defendants’ treatment of plaintiff’
• “To the extent that plaintiff's First Amendment claim is based on his somehow stymied gender expression, it must also be dismissed: plaintiff cites no authority for this kludging together of anti-discrimination and First Amendment law.”

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