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  • Per https://old.reddit.com/user/onnake Sat Feb 22 16:20:17 2025 UTC

    NPR missed an important point that Trump, in his quest for ever-greater power, is once again ignoring a judicial ruling:

    “In another case, Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a preliminary ruling blocking the three plaintiffs’ transfer to a men’s facility, saying they had ‘straightforwardly demonstrated that irreparable harm will follow.’”

    “While the transfers likely would not be seen as directly flouting the judge’s order, David Super, a Georgetown law professor, said they would clearly violate the spirit of Judge Lamberth’s ruling that such a transfer would most likely violate the Constitution’s ban on ‘cruel and unusual punishment.’

    “‘Historically, administrations do not do things that an active court order declares unlawful,’ he said.”

    NY Times: https://archive.is/6XGIo






  • Extracted a paragraph from the “preview” by academic paywall:

    INTRODUCTION EXCERPT ATTACHED. In 1865, the British rulers of north India resolved to bring about the gradual ‘extinction’ of transgender Hijras. This book, the first in-depth history of the Hijra community, illuminates the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality and the production of colonial knowledge. From the 1850s, colonial officials and middle class Indians increasingly expressed moral outrage at Hijras’ feminine gender expression, sexuality, bodies and public performances. To the British, Hijras were an ungovernable population that posed a danger to colonial rule. In 1871, the colonial government passed a law that criminalised Hijras, with the explicit aim of causing Hijras’ ‘extermination’. But Hijras evaded police, kept on the move, broke the law and kept their cultural traditions alive. Based on extensive archival work in India and the UK, Jessica Hinchy argues that Hijras were criminalised not simply because of imported British norms, but due to a complex set of local factors, including elite Indian attitudes.

    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108592208