Transing the wrong things
Lately we're all trans-y about qualities that can't be transed.

Gender is binary and permanent. You're either male or female from birth, and there is NO way to change it. This is simple straightforward biology.

Race or ethnicity is much less binary** but equally permanent. You may be born 1/16 Cherokee, 3/16 North German, 5/16 West African, and 7/16 Celtic. If that's how you were born, that's how you'll die. No way to change it. Plain biology.

We suffer from the bizarre delusion that these permanent qualities can be changed at will, but only by people with the correct ideological credentials, which is even more bizarre.

At the same time we FAIL to allow trans-ing of qualities that are purely nominal and purely temporary, like some occupations.

Most people voluntarily trans their occupation several times through life. Nothing special or remarkable.

Trans-occupationing can also happen involuntarily. If you throw a hamburger at a customer instead of serving it to him, you have transed out of waitressing. If you burn down a building instead of dousing it, you are now a trans-criminal with a fireman background. If you steal the company's checking account instead of auditing it, you are a trans-criminal with a bookkeeper background.

Perfectly well understood for waitresses or firemen or bookkeepers.

Why don't we understand it when it happens to judges?

The 9 humans who sit in the room labelled as "US Supreme Court" ceased to be judges in 1803 when they stole the power of the legislature. At that point the Constitution that had given them specific limited authority ceased*** to exist, and the humans in that room ceased to be judges. They trans-ed into criminals with a judge background.

The 9 humans who sit in the room labelled as "Washington State Supreme Court" ceased to be judges in 1978 when they stole the power of the legislature. At that point the Constitution that had given them specific limited authority ceased to exist, and the humans in that room ceased to be judges. They trans-ed into criminals with a judge background.

This should be obvious in the same way as the fireman burning down the building. Instead we treat judging the same way we SHOULD treat gender and race. We blindly obey black-robed criminals when they commit blazingly obvious crimes, because Judging is the only permanent quality in the world.

We're fucked.


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** Much less binary: In mathy terms, gender is a one-digit binary fraction and race is a more fine-grained binary fraction. In theory it could have as many binary digits as the generations since start of Homo sapiens. In fact it rarely needs more than 10 digits because ethnic groups tend to remain pure and stable for centuries. Outside of professional genealogy, we typically run back 6 generations = 6 binary digits = denominator of 64.

*** Ceased to exist: May not be clear. Go back to the restaurant. Let's say a restaurant had 9 waitresses, and all of them permanently transed into food-throwers instead of food-servers. The place itself might continue to do business but it wouldn't be a restaurant. You'd have to call it a fight club or an Avant-Garde Art Installation because its license to serve food would be revoked. So: when the 9 judges permanently trans into mass-murdering criminals with a judge background, a major part of the constitution is no longer implemented. The building now falsely labelled "Supreme Court" continues to operate, but it's no longer a court. You'd have to call it a Criminal Syndicate or a Gang. The Court assumed by the constitution has disappeared, so the constitution is no longer valid.
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