A federal prison inmate had, without a lawyer, petitioned the court for a name change from Norman Keith Varner to Katherine Nicole Jett, having come out as a “transgender woman.” Duncan’s majority opinion denied the request as beyond the jurisdiction of the court, a harsh but not entirely unreasonable decision.īut then Duncan went further, launching into an uncalled-for six-page disquisition denying the prisoner’s request for the use of female pronouns. In one case, however, Duncan went out of his way to score points against what the rightwing calls wokeism.
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