Transgender activists who use lawsuits to push for child gender transitions also sponsor groups that teach judges to view cases through the lens of gender ideology.
UCLA School of Law Williams Institute’s Judicial Education Program partner We work with courts and judicial associations across the country to provide training to persuade judges to bring gender ideology into the courtroom, provide a primer on the range of sexual identities, and encourage them to use pronouns when introducing themselves. I recommend it.
Meanwhile, its donors and corporate sponsors have long been at the forefront of lawsuits advancing LGBT causes, from legalizing same-sex marriage to challenging state child gender reassignment bans.
Richard Painter, a former White House chief ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush, told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the kind of “subject-specific training” and “I have been asking federal judges not to participate for many years,” he said. Institute.
Painter told the DCNF, “Judges do not receive ‘training’ funded by the lawyers who argue the cases in front of them or the organizations that are the parties to the cases in front of them. “You can learn about topics on your own,” he said. “I remember asking about attending such ‘free’ seminars when vetting Supreme Court nominees on ethics issues.”
Painter pointed out that one of the reasons Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito granted ethics clearance for their appointments to the Supreme Court was because they did not participate in this type of program.
Thousands of judges and their staff have been exposed to training materials created by the Williams Institute.
Todd Brower, director of the Williams Institute’s judicial education program, said: I wrote In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee in 2019, he said, “For nearly 15 years, we have asked more than 5,000 judges, court staff, and related court professionals in nearly every state in the United States to discuss sexual orientation and gender. He stated that he had been conducting training on issues of self-identification.
The institute’s judicial education program is it works In collaboration with the International LGBTQ+ Judges Association and LGBTQ Lawyers Association, we have provided training at venues such as the New Mexico Judicial Conference, the National Association of State Judicial Educators, and the National Judicial College. According to Go to that website.
According to a list previously obtained by DCNF, Brouwer gave a webinar in November 2022 for Ohio court officials titled “Gender Identity and Gender Identity in the Courtroom.” DCNF previously reported that he taught a course at the Nevada Supreme Court in July 2023 to incorporate pronoun usage and gender identity awareness into the courtroom.
The Institute also participated in the May 2023 “Pride and Pronouns” training held at the Santa Cruz County Superior Court. (Related: Exclusive: Biden-Harris administration paves way for bureaucrats to take gender-confused children from ‘non-affirming’ parents)
This study and the Institute’s work has helped several major law firms work pro bono to support LGBT-related activist cases, from opposition to child gender reassignment bans in red states to court filings. Funded by. briefs In important Supreme Court cases, According to Send a packet listing current and former sponsors.
“For example, when groups like UCLA’s Williams Institute or the Climate Justice Project seek behind-the-scenes access to judges, it’s worth asking questions about that group’s funding and sponsorship,” the conservative legal advocacy group said. says Carrie Severino, CEO of . JCN told DCNF. “Who are the sponsors that we don’t know about? Why would this group be interested in conducting such training?”
One of our sponsors, Covington & Burling; record 10,200 unpaid hours spent on LGBTQ+ issues in 2023; include Leads medical association’s effort to oppose ban on child gender reassignment through court filing briefs If you want to challenge a red state law.
company represented The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) have filed a lawsuit challenging Alabama’s ban on child gender reassignment. Revelations in Alabama case reveal WPATH allowed political concerns to influence Standards of Care (SOC-8) guidelines and bowed to pressure from Biden administration and ‘social justice lawyers’ It became.
Two companies have joined this effort: Akin Gump and Sidley Austin launched In 2019, it partnered with the Human Rights Campaign to file a strategic lawsuit to “combat the Trump-Pence administration’s relentless assault on LGBTQ equality.”
Akin Gump I participated American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, and another firm. challenge Last year, Tennessee banned gender reassignment procedures for children.
The Supreme Court is expected to consider the Biden administration’s challenge to the same Tennessee law this term.
Another sponsor, Baker McKenzie, partnered In partnership with Lambda Legal and the Southern Poverty Law Center, we will fight Florida’s Parents’ Education Bill of Rights in court. The company is award The award was presented by the LGBT advocacy group Stonewall for a lawsuit that aims to “support and advance opportunities for LGBTQ+ youth across the country.”
Law firm Shepard Mullin Richter serve According to the firm, as the national pro bono attorney for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), that means the attorney “regularly attends board meetings and represents GLAAD in the event of litigation.” He says he will. Website.
Latham & Watkins Assisted Williams Institute in filing court documents easy The Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case legalized same-sex marriage. The investigation from the outline will ultimately quoted In the judgment.
Other companies supporting the Williams Institute and working on LGBT cases pro bono include: kirkland & ellisMunger, Tolles & Olson, O’Melveny & Myers,
The Williams Institute operates on an annual budget of more than $4.5 million. According to Go to that website.
“Funding of this ‘training’ of judges by law firms with a vested interest in the outcome of LGBTQ-related cases does not pass the smell test,” said Edwin Meese III, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Law and Justice. says legal researcher Sarah Parshall Perry. study told DCNF. “And frankly, allowing private law firms to sponsor such unilateral training designed to achieve favorable court outcomes also violates the Lawyers’ Code of Professional Ethics. ”
It’s these types of trainings that have allowed state courts to be “taken over by ideological Newspeak despotism,” she said.
“For example, in the area of domestic relations, where a parent who does not automatically affirm a minor child’s expression of gender identity is subsequently stripped of parental rights, the issue may be resolved by a state judge on issues such as child custody. “Increasingly, there are decisions that it would be in the child’s ‘best interest’ for the other parent to automatically affirm,” Perry said.
Exclusive: Biden-Harris administration clears the way for bureaucrats to take gender-confused children from ‘non-affirming’ parents 🧵 pic.twitter.com/1ezojfWBxU
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 14, 2024
Promoting gender change in children
The Williams Institute has ties to organizations that have led the way in promoting gender transition in children.
Currently, the institute’s faculty advisory committee is Contains Jillian T. Weiss, executive director of transgender legal defense and education, and Mark Schuster, CEO of Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine in California.
Multiple transsexuals, including Chloe Cole, are suing Kaiser Permanente for subjecting them to puberty-blocking drugs and sex-reassignment procedures, including double mastectomies, when they were children.
The institute’s nonprofit donors supported legal and medical organizations that helped lift safeguards for children.
Tawani Foundation, based in Chicago; established by transgender activist Jennifer (formerly James) Pritzker has donated more than $1.4 million to the Williams Institute since 2018, according to tax documents.
Pritzker’s father, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, now identifies as a woman. Selection subjects Funder of WPATH. he received charity award From organizations that provided “long-term support” and assistance in developing the SOC8 guidelines.
Court documents released in a lawsuit challenging Alabama’s ban on gender reassignment procedures for minors show that WPATH avoided SOC8 guideline evidentiary review on the advice of “social justice” lawyers. revealed. Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine also successfully pressured WPATH to remove the minimum age recommendation.
The Tawani Foundation donated $275,000 to WPATH from 2019 to 2020, according to tax records.
The foundation also funds numerous LGBT litigation efforts. Since 2018, for every tax record, we have donated $437,500 to the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, $125,000 to the National Center for Transgender Equality, and $100,000 to GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Attorneys. are.
The San Francisco-based Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Foundation has donated $282,500 to the Williams Institute since 2016. During the same period, they donated nearly $1.27 million to the National Center for Transgender Equality, $1.08 million to the Transgender Law Center, and $80,000. Each tax record will donate $1.7 million to the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, $1.7 million to the National Lesbian Rights Center and $435,500 to Lambda Legal.
The Left Tides Center collaborates with and financially sponsors the foundation’s Haas Leadership Initiative. programAccording to , the organization provides grants to organizations that support lawsuits that advance “legal privileges for LGBT people.” influence clock.
The Williams Institute also received The David Bohnett Foundation has paid a total of $283,348 since 2004, according to grants reported on its website. Most recently, the organization donated $5,000 to the 2024 Gala.
Bohnett Foundation President Michael Fleming is married to his same-sex partner, California Court of Appeals Judge Louis A. Rabin. According to In his bio. Rabin spoke on the LGBTQ bench at the Williams Institute. webinar In 2021.
The David Bohnett Foundation makes donations to a variety of other organizations that advance cases through the legal system, including the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Transgender Law Center, Lambda Legal, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
Williams Institute, Covington & Burling, Akin Gump, Sidley Austin, Baker McKenzie, Shepard Mullin Richter, Latham & Watkins, Kirkland & Ellis, Munger, Toles & Olson, and O’Melveny & Myers did not respond to requests for comment. Ta. Pritzker also did not respond to a request for comment.
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