The right to privacy has long been regarded as a liberal progressive principle, one that guarantees gender-based equality and liberty in the domain of reproductive rights. Since the US Supreme Court’s renowned articulation of privacy in Roe v. Wade, privacy’s opponents have condemned the right as an illegitimate judicial invention with no basis in the Constitution. This article addresses the puzzle of why a coalition of Christian conservative legal organizations, conservative foundations, Trump administration officials, Republican party lawmakers, and trans-exclusionary radical feminists has assembled to redefine the right to privacy in service of anti-transgender politics. While much attention has been paid to the proliferation of religious liberty-based challenges to the rights of sexual and gender minorities, these accounts miss how central the fight to reassociate privacy has become in conflicts waged in state and federal courts, city and state legislatures, and ballot referendum campaigns. Although this coalition eschews any mention of Roe or reproductive rights, it does adopt a substantive due process-based interpretation of privacy’s mandate despite the typical conservative disdain for that doctrine. Additionally, the coalition frames its project as one that balances competing rights claims by defending (cis) women’s rights against allegedly lopsided trans-inclusive reforms.

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保守的隐私权：美国社会保守主义的法律、意识形态和联盟转型

长期以来，隐私权一直被认为是一项自由进步的原则，它保障了生殖权利领域中基于性别的平等和自由。自从美国最高法院在罗诉韦德案，隐私的反对者谴责这项权利是一项非法的司法发明，在宪法中没有任何依据。本文解决了一个由基督教保守派法律组织、保守派基金会、特朗普政府官员、共和党议员和跨性别激进女权主义者组成的联盟为何聚集在一起重新定义隐私权以服务于反跨性别政治的难题。尽管人们对基于宗教自由的对性少数群体和性别少数群体权利的挑战的扩散给予了很多关注，但这些说法忽略了重新关联隐私的斗争在州和联邦法院、市和州立法机构的冲突中变得多么重要，和投票公投活动。尽管这个联盟回避任何提及鱼子或生殖权利，它确实采用了基于实质性正当程序的隐私授权解释，尽管典型的保守派对该学说不屑一顾。此外，该联盟将其项目构建为一个通过捍卫（独联体）妇女权利与据称不平衡的跨包容性改革来平衡相互竞争的权利要求的项目。