text:  For what it's worth, none of this makes any sense under the law either. As I discussed yesterday in the context of the Supreme Court case involving Tennessee's ban on child castration, the idea that gender identity is a protected characteristic doesn't work. Protected characteristics under civil rights law are things that are obvious, immutable, or distinguishing. And there is nothing about transgender identity that is immutable. And even by the activists' own testimony, by what they say, there's also nothing about it that's distinguishing.