The Supreme Court is scheduled to decide as soon as this week if it will hear a case about whether individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
The petition (pdf) in the case Kincaid v. Williams (court file 22-633) was filed in January.
The respondent, Kesha Williams, a former detainee in the county who was born male and now identifies as female, is suing the petitioner, Stacey Kincaid, a Democrat, in her official capacity as the sheriff of Fairfax County, Virginia.
Williams suffers from gender dysphoria, which can be defined as “discomfort or distress that is caused by a discrepancy between a person’s gender identity and that person’s sex assigned at birth.” Williams claimed he was mistreated and discriminated against while in the custody of the county, which failed to take his wish to have his female identity acknowledged into account….