{"id":886,"date":"2026-01-16T13:49:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=886"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:53:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:53:56","slug":"the-supreme-courts-mother-of-all-battles-for-woke-defenders-aclu-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/the-supreme-courts-mother-of-all-battles-for-woke-defenders-aclu-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court\u2019s \u201cMother of All Battles\u201d for Woke Defenders \u2013 ACLU Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Defenders of the woke agenda are mounting a major battle at the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/strong> According to <strong>Breitbart,<\/strong> Naomi Watts and Elliot Page (formerly Ellen) are just a few of the <strong>prominent names supporting trans youth in a new awareness campaign by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;More Than a Game&#8221; campaign will launch on Monday and will include participants such as Megan Rapinoe, Sue Bird, Benito Skinner, Brianna Turner, as well as the lead plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case that will determine whether trans athletes can compete in women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign features photos and videos of the participants wearing exclusive clothing designed by award-winning fashion designer and ACLU artistic ambassador Willy Chavarria. The photographs were captured by artist and fashion photographer Collier Schorr, and the visuals were directed by Sundance Award-winning filmmaker Alessandra Laccarozza.<\/p>\n<p>Two-time World Cup winner Rapinoe expressed her concern, stating that \u201call women will be harmed\u201d if the Supreme Court <strong>upholds bans on trans participation in women\u2019s sports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis week, the Supreme Court is poised to hear a case that will have major implications for women\u2019s sports and <strong>civil rights,<\/strong> as well as <strong>the future of our country,\u201d Rapinoe said. \u201cI will not risk sacrificing hard-won rights because of anti-trans rhetoric.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll women will be hurt if the Court rules against the young trans people at the center of these cases, and I want to be clear without reservation that I stand for equality and justice,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chase Strangio, organizer of the ACLU\u2019s LGBT &#038; HIV project, noted that the campaign represents \u201ca rejection of attempts to divide us.\u201d<\/strong> \u201cThis moment in our country\u2019s history is a test of our willingness to stand up and speak out for the most vulnerable,\u201d Strangio said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we will certainly defend our rights and humanity in the courts, <strong>we know that the successful path forward for trans people beyond this crisis<\/strong> will <strong>also require<\/strong> a <strong>broad, diverse coalition<\/strong> to bring about <strong>change<\/strong> in our communities and <strong>culture.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore Than a Game\u201d is our opposition to efforts to divide us and is a call for the unity we need to defend the freedom we deserve, both on and off the field,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Paul Roland Bois\u2019s film, EXEMPLUM, has received a 100% target score on Rotten Tomatoes and is available to watch free on platforms such as YouTube, Tubi, and Fawesome TV.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent advocates, including Naomi Watts and Megan Rapinoe, back the ACLU\u2019s \u201cMore Than a Game\u201d campaign, challenging the US Supreme Court\u2019s stance on transgender athletes\u2019 participation in women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[809,811,123,810,812],"nfg_topic":[137],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-american-civil-liberties-union","tag-chase-strangio","tag-culture-wars","tag-megan-rapinoe","tag-us-supreme-court","nfg_topic-culture-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}