Federal Judge Lawrence VanDyke, an appointee of President Donald Trump, criticised his colleagues for refusing to rehear the case of a Christian-owned women's spa forced by Washington state to admit men. The spa, Olympus Spa, was accused of discrimination in 2020 for refusing access to a trans-identifying male whose penis was intact and has been in a legal battle since. A three-judge Ninth Circuit panel ruled against the spa in May, holding that its owners' First Amendment rights had not been violated by the state. However, the spa petitioned the Ninth Circuit for a panel rehearing or a full-court rehearing of the case. VanDYke's dissenting opinion stated that the state's "woke redefinition of sex" undermines legal protections granted to women as a class and undermines established criminal laws against voyeurism and indecent exposure.