My mom (Republican, lawyer) assured me (trans) that the Court would of course rule that Title VII protects queer and trans people from discrimination, as the plain meaning of the law forbids punishing employees for not conforming to gender stereotypes. She said that the conservative justices, being textualists, would agree.

I laughed it off and thought she was drinking the Kool-Aid, but damned if she didn't read the future. Kavanagh forsook textualism, but Gorsuch wrote for the majority, using exactly the language my mom argued.