The left likes to present religious liberty as a bigotry loophole for intolerant white Christians, so it’s worth highlighting another case that’s an ideological scrambler: Last month a federal appeals court ruled that a male Muslim prisoner in Wisconsin can have an exemption from strip searches involving a transgender guard who is biologically female.
“The moral tenets of his faith” prohibit him “from exposing his body to a woman who is not his wife,” writes Judge Diane Sykes of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. When the inmate objected to a 2016 strip search, the warden responded that the transgender guard “is a male and is qualified to complete these duties.” Prison officials threatened discipline if the inmate raised more complaints.
