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Michael Higgins: We're handing women over to predators, says U.S. judge as he denounces 'woke' colleagues

Judge railed against ruling against that female-only spa had discriminated against person with male genitalia who is attracted to women

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Call him coarse, vulgar, or rude, U.S. judge Lawrence VanDyke has come out swinging with a thunderous defence of women and a scathing attack against activist judges with a woke agenda.

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In language that was deliberately offensive, VanDyke pulled no punches as he pointedly railed against colleagues who ruled that a spa, that catered to nude women and girls, had discriminated by refusing to allow in a person who identified as female, but had male genitalia, was twice married and was still sexually attracted to women.

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“This case is about swinging d–ks,” wrote VanDyke — who sits on the Ninth Circuit U.S. Appeals Court, the largest in America and covering the West Coast. The Christian owners of Olympus Spa — a traditional Korean, women-only, nude spa — understandably don’t want them in their spa. Their female employees and female clients don’t want them in their spa either. But Washington State insists on them. And now so does the Ninth Circuit.

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