Textualism

文言主義(textualism)の保守派判事が、性的パートナーの性やトランスジェンダーであることによる差別はsex（性別）による差別に含まれるのは明らかだという簡潔な論理の判決文を出したのは大きいよな。ちなみに、日本国憲法には、憲法第１４条で性別による差別禁止が明確に書かれている。 https://t.co/yQorXtt5QO

— kazukazu88 (@kazukazu881) June 16, 2020

But Judge Neil Gorsuch, who was nominated to the court by President Donald Trump, said acting against an employee on those grounds necessarily takes sex into account.

"An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex," he wrote.

Neil Gorsuch
From Wikipedia

Gorsuch is a proponent of textualism in statutory interpretation and originalism in interpreting the United States Constitution

Textualism
From Wikipedia

Textualism is a formalist theory in which the interpretation of the law is primarily based on the ordinary meaning of the legal text, where no consideration is given to non-textual sources, such as: intention of the law when passed, the problem it was intended to remedy, or significant questions regarding the justice or rectitude of the law.

Texualism 文言主義だからだろうね。

Lawyers for the employers had argued that the authors of the 1964 Civil Rights Act had not intended it to apply to cases involving sexual orientation and gender identity.

当時の立法者の意思を考慮に入れていたら、当時、性的指向性とか、性自認とか、考慮していたとはいえないだろう。


　これは文学でも法解釈学でも論争のあるところ。