An indecent world. . .

As if our world could not be more in need of common sense and common decency, an appeals court last month decided that biological men should be permitted to enter an all-female spa that serves a clientele of females ages 13 and up.  In Olympus Spa v. Armstrong, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that Washington state can indeed enforce an anti-discrimination law to allow a biological man to enter the spa if he identifies as a woman. The Korean-inspired women’s spa limited admission to females only because its services involve full nudity for Korean scrubs, communal bathing, saunas, and massages.  The Washington State Human Rights Commission then entered into the picture alleging that the spa violated the state’s public accommodation law and the Washington Law Against Discrimination.  Whereupon, a three-judge panel for the 9th Circuit dismissed the spa’s First Amendment arguments for free exercise of religion and freedom of association in a May 2025 ruling.  Then, in March, the 9th Circuit this week denied a rehearing in the case by the full bench.  One dissented from this denial, insisting that the “supposed adults in the room have collectively lost their minds.”  I might add, so has the Washington State Human Rights Commission and anyone who holds with them.  It is the triumph of absurdity and stupidity in the name of an ideology masquerading as civil rights and has pretty much sealed the deal that we live in an indecent world in which such absurdity triumphs over decency and common sense every day of the week.  In a decent society, it is common sense that women and girls require privacy in their intimate spaces. 

I am amazed that this had to be argued under the cause of free exercise of religion and freedom of association.  Whether that is the law or not, there was a time in which decency was presumed and that was enough to prevent minors from being exposed to nudity without their consent or the consent of the adults in whose care they reside.  But not now.  It would seem that the Washington State Human Rights Commission and the 9th Circuit have decided that there is no such thing as decency or the protection of the minor and that the supposed female in possession of male genitalia has rights greater than any other in such a case.  I am not pointing this out so that people can be outraged -- I am writing about this because it proves the absurdity of our legal system without a hint of reason, common sense, or decency in pursuit of an absolute ideal that would require the surrender of all of this for the sake of male genitalia.  In other words, the supposed female with male genitalia has a right to be seen that is greater than the rights of anyone to privacy.  Again, truth is always stranger than fiction.  While I am fairly certain this will be overturn, the mere fact that it could be decided almost proves the entire point of the problems we have with the American judicial system today.