Transgender activism excels at shoving round pegs into square holes. I’d also note that fundamentalists of all stripes make sure they put women in their place.
Men, Women, Males and Females Disappear from California Bar Form
Transgender activism excels at shoving round pegs into square holes. I’d also note that fundamentalists of all stripes make sure they put women in their place.
Far from its worst offense. In about 2005, I reported a San Francisco-based attorney to her county board. She had been advising a start-up and instructing it to divert funds from a registered tax-exempt charity to the privately-owned enterprise. I had the audit trail and the communications. She was an IP attorney who answered an ad to be the outside GC for the company. At the point where she convinced the owner to stop listening to me, she sent me a mutual non-disparagement agreement to sign.
I emailed her immediately and said I would gladly sign because there was no severability clause, and it contained a paragraph prohibiting me from providing any professional services to any other clients anywhere on earth. Repeat after me: unfair and unreasonable restraint of trade. It was unenforceable.
The reason she gave for dismissing me was that I wasn’t a computer programmer thus knew nothing about systems. Programming is to systems as typing is to literature. Shakespeare never learned how to type, so he must not have known anything about literature.
The bar association emailed me in response. “The attorney in question was not your attorney, therefore you have no standing to report the matter.” Thank God the bar association doesn’t run the fire department.