There’s an old Seinfeld episode where a newspaper erroneously reports that Jerry and George are gay, prompting their refrain, “Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”
Jerry: “I’ve been ‘outed’! I wasn’t even ‘in’!”
Just as courts over time have found that it's no longer defamatory per se to say a person was born out of wedlock or has cancer, or to incorrectly report someone's race, so too Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gregory Keosian determined that “misidentification of a person as transgender is not actionable defamation absent special damages.”
September 24, 2017 at 08:41 PM
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There’s an old Seinfeld episode where a newspaper erroneously reports that Jerry and George are gay, prompting their refrain, “Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”
Jerry: “I’ve been ‘outed’! I wasn’t even ‘in’!”
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