Right-wing Supreme Court justices skewered in blistering dissent on gender identity

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan tore into her right-wing colleagues in a dissent to a Monday "shadow docket" ruling that grants an appeal to religious parents challenging California policies that protect schoolchildren's confidentiality about gender identity.

In that dissent, she accused the majority of deploying a doctrine they themselves disparaged multiple times to undermine liberal legal rights.

"This Court, to affirm the relief given ... explains that the State’s policy 'excludes...