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Kate Redburn

@kredburn.bsky.social
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Associate Prof. and Director, Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, Columbia Law School.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/08/2026
This is not exhaustive. This is a floor based off of what I could get from hathitrust. It overlaps a lot with the work done by @kredburn.bsky.social but is missing some of theirs but I found substantially more they didn't have. Corpus is my dataset. Appendix is Kate's.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/08/2026
Anti cross dressing ordinances over time in the US. What's remarkable is how much of this nucleated around St Louis and the Mississippi River in the mid 19th century. There's a story there to find.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.
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To the Trans Girl Who Just Lost at the Supreme Court: So Did I 26 Years Ago
A letter to Becky Pepper Jackson about her trans sports case defeat at SCOTUS yesterday
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Many of the laws upheld today, like the one in Idaho, have specific provisions authorizing physical inspection. The original challenge included a cis plaintiff who feared intrusion based on her gender presentation.
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Dara Purvis @darapurvis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
There's a lot to be angry about in BPJ, but one dimension of it is how Kavanaugh attacks the center of one of RBG's biggest cases. More on what I mean by that in @Slate.
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Nancy Armour @nrarmour.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A minor chord in the athletics controversy is the sad idea that the point of youth sports is winning
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Supreme Court on trans rights: heads I win, tails you lose.
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Why is it bad to define sex in the Constitution? Because the government can't dictate what your personhood means. Legislation told women for centuries that their bodies make them naturally feminine, domestic, heterosexual, and reproductive.
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Today the Court denied transgender women and girls constitutional equality. I predicted that the athlete cases could take this turn after last year's decision in Skrmetti: harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/u...
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Jim Oleske @jimoleske.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
2/ But in B.P.J., the phrase "exceedingly persuasive" is absent from majority opinion, and as Sotomayor notes in dissent, the majority cites free speech int. scrutiny cases (and rational basis cases) in its application of equal protection intermediate scrutiny.
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Jim Oleske @jimoleske.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
1/ One important doctrinal takeaway from B.P.J. decision is narrowing of gap b/n equal-protection intermediate scrutiny and free-speech int. scrutiny. Former had been viewed as rigorous (captured by "exceedingly persuasive" phrase), while latter long viewed (in Ct's words) as "relatively lenient."
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Part of her essential project to show that interpretation is inescapable - even for methods that claim otherwise: @fpeterson.bsky.social on the difference between law - the rules that 'actually constrain power - and text. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.....
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The Limits of Text
Let’s say the “laws” are the rules that actually constrain power, organize government, and coerce people. That is, let’s define the law as the system of rules we
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Sam Alito in Callais: the 14th/15th amendment only care about intentional discrimination! SCOTUS today: jk! not even that! (unless the “intentional” discrimination is attempting to comply with the voting rights act, in which case it’s unconstitutional intentional racial discrimination)
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Proud of my students for their research, which for the first time located the descendants of those enslaved by Columbia University's founders. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/05...
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Student researchers identify living descendant of person enslaved by Columbia founder
For the first time since the Columbia University and Slavery seminar began in 2014, students have identified a living descendant of someone enslaved by a Columbia affiliate.
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Good news: two of these CIDs--against the Endocrine Society and against WPATH--have now been enjoined (h/t @kredburn.bsky.social), relying heavily on Media Matters's case as precedent. Q now is whether FTC will develop a theory of legal wrondoing or continue to vaguely say "deception" & harass
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Remind me what he was up to before politics?
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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Download of the Week: “Historical Practice Theories” by Ahmed The Download of the Week is Historical Practice Theories by Ashraf Ahmed. Here is the abstract: Contemporary constitutional law and theory is preoccupied with the question of practice. Over the last decade, across a range of issues—from…
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Download of the Week: “Historical Practice Theories” by Ahmed
The Download of the Week is Historical Practice Theories by Ashraf Ahmed. Here is the abstract: Contemporary constitutional law and theory is preoccupied with the question of practice. Over the last decade, across a range of issues—from gun rights to elections to school prayer to the structure of the administrative state—the Supreme Court has decided cases on the basis of past practice.
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Lux Magazine @readlux.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The campus is the main battleground of America’s free-speech wars – so Lux is hitting the road for our first college campus tour. Read about it in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Gender studies lives! The amazing @readlux.bsky.social is traveling the country to spread the word www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
This was the most interesting conversation I have had in a long time. Brilliant @azizaahmed.bsky.social talked to me about her new book & how feminists transformed the science of AIDS. lpeproject.org/blog/how-fem...
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Bluesky
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
As the press makes sense of the arguments in the transgender athlete cases today, you're likely to see one exchange between Justice Gorsuch and Deputy SG Mooppan (like this one from NPR) www.npr.org/2026/01/13/n.... Why?
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Supreme Court appears likely to uphold state bans on transgender athletes
To date, 27 states have enacted laws barring transgender participation in sports.
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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Notice that the US govt as amicus is now arguing that transgender people can't complain about being treated unequally as a despised politically powerless minority via a sex-based classification because they're too small a minority. That's . . . uhm . . . interesting?
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I could really go for less of this Michael M hypothetical from Mooppan
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
As arguments begin in the transgender athletes cases, a few things to keep in mind:
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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I'll be live-skeeting the oral argument in the transgender athletes cases at the top of the next hour. (A "skeet" is the BlueSky equivalent of a tweet.) Expect snark and rage--unless I'm very pleasantly surprised. Meanwhile, here's the brief I signed as a lawyer and as an amicus.
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Plus ca change . . .
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/01/2026
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
“Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others agree it’s extortion but aren’t critics.”
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
sometimes a beautiful book arrives at just the right time. cannot recommend @riislover667.bsky.social’s This Watery Place highly enough!
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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
My moderating skills were a little rusty, but this event still turned out SO GREAT thanks to @sandynurse.bsky.social & @ngusdorf.bsky.social!! If you want to learn about how NYC government works (we get deep into the city budget) you absolutely can't miss this event!! youtu.be/kTZb8XlVJs0
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Local Power
YouTube video by LPE Project
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
In Skrmetti, the Supreme Court put hundreds of thousands of kids in harm's way while inflicting damage on the larger project of sex equality for all. My latest in Harvard Law Review: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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<i>Skrmetti </i>Beyond Scrutiny
<p><span>In United States v. Skrmetti, </span><span>the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee </span><span>Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), a state law that prohibits t
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
In the Harvard Law Review, @kredburn.bsky.social has a new piece explaining what happened in Skrmetti, and what it means for trans rights and sex equality more broadly.
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Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny - Harvard Law Review
In United States v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), a state law that prohibits transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming care.
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Out today in HLR, my piece Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny. What happened, what it means for trans rights and sex equality more broadly: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
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Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny - Harvard Law Review
In United States v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), a state law that prohibits transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming care.
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Out today in HLR, my piece Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny. What happened, what it means for trans rights and sex equality more broadly: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
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Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny - Harvard Law Review
In United States v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), a state law that prohibits transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming care.
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
to be clear: the government's claim - validated by the Court - is that it would *irreparably harm* the president to not misgender trans people
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Worth reading the dissent in this horrible order - Justice Jackson points to the pattern of emergency docket abuse and the absurdity of the government's claims.
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!
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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Excited about the first @lpenyc.bsky.social Night School event of the new academic year, now at @cuny.edu Law — with @masonbwilliams.bsky.social and Gregory Louis in conversation with @llchristyll.bsky.social!! RSVP below!
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How NYC Became So Unequal
Ever wonder why CUNY is no longer free? Confused why the subway fare keeps rising while service declines? Join LPE NYC on October 23 at 6:30pm for a conversation between Professors Gregory Louis and…
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Such a pleasure to join @imarajones.bsky.social on @translash.org to talk about the history of anti-queer and trans surveillance
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Genevieve Lakier is who everyone should be reading on the risks of government jawboning in the Jimmy Kimmel case. @genevievelakier.bsky.social
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Part of the success of “cancel culture” as a meme is that it makes dissimilar activity look the same. Protesting a speaker is not the same as shunning sexual predators is not the same as the federal government silencing dissent.
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Aziza Ahmed @azizaahmed.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I wrote a book that I hope helps people think about the relationship between law, science, social movements, &political economy. It tells the story of how feminists transformed the response to AIDS to ensure better access to healthcare. Avail for preorder! www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
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Risk and Resistance
Cambridge Core - American Studies - Risk and Resistance
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
It can be hard to keep up with all the ways the feds are going after trans folks- really helpful analysis of concerning developments at FTC from @lookheron.bsky.social
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Lindsay Wiley @lindsaywiley.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
There are two big legal issues when states try to fill gaps in fed health insurance regulations: (1) the insurance issue is more likely to require new state legislation than the pharmacy issue & (2) states can’t touch two of the biggest types of insurance - “self-insured” employer plans & Medicare
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Lindsay Wiley @lindsaywiley.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Several states are moving fast to remove barriers, but their power over insurance coverage is more limited than their power to permit pharmacists to give vaccines.…
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Casey Parks @caseyparks.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Subpoenas made public this week show the government is demanding doctors turn over a wide range of sensitive, identifiable data about its trans patients — everything from social security numbers to Zoom records, notes, addresses, "everything written or recorded." Our story: wapo.st/4lAnkRy
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Government’s demand for trans care info sought addresses, doctors’ notes, texts
Legal experts said the Justice Department subpoenas related to medical care for transgender minors appear to be unprecedented.
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The astounding triumph Born in Flames by @benchansfield.bsky.social is out! The rare work of history that changes common sense - in this case the burning of the Bronx and other cities in the 70s - while also making revelatory moves for theory and historiography. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/b...
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When the Bronx Burned, Tenants Died and Landlords Got Rich
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