A Washington judge has ordered a women-only nude spa to accept transgender women who still have penises. Seattle District Court Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein on Monday upheld a discrimination ruling ...
From Olympus Spa v. Armstrong, decided today by Ninth Circuit Judge Margaret McKeown, joined by Judge Ronald M. Gould: In 2020, the HRC [Human Rights Commission], the agency tasked with enforcing WLAD ...
A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling effectively bans women-only spas from operating. The judge who wrote the opinion for the court initially compared the rule restricting use of the facility to ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Seattle. (Barbara Leonard/Courthouse News) (CN) — The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that a Christian-owned traditional women-only ...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Seattle. (Barbara Leonard/Courthouse News) SEATTLE (CN) — A traditional Korean spa that requires nudity and caters only to “biological women” ...
The case of a Korean spa in Washington state is raising as many questions as the justices answered when they ruled that the state had a right to enforce its anti-discrimination laws after the spa ...
A group of transgender activists have vowed to try and crash a “women’s night” at a San Francisco bathhouse after the spa owners introduced one session a month where only biologically-born females can ...
A New Jersey spa must allow male customers who identify as the opposite sex to access female-only areas where women are required to be nude, regardless of whether they've undergone a sex-change ...
From Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein's opinion yesterday in Olympus Spa v. Armstrong (W.D. Wash.): The Olympus Spa is a Korean spa "specifically designed for women," and the services offered there "are ...