'OUTRAGEOUS': Court Rules in Favor of Trans Activists Who Allegedly Lied to Get Realtor Agent Fired

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Transgender activists are "weaponizing" a law meant to protect participation in public debate, flipping it "on its head" to further a "personal vendetta" against a Georgia mom and real estate agent whom the activists previously tried to get fired, the mom's lawyer says.

Julie Mauck, the Georgia mom, publicly addressed a library meeting in July 2023, asking the library to move a sexually explicit book out of the children's section, and warning that some pedophiles try to claim membership in the LGBTQ+ acronym as part of the "plus." Transgender activists reached out to her broker and to the Georgia Association of Realtors, claiming that she called "the entire LGBTQ community 'pedophiles'" and urging disciplinary action.

Mauck sued, and both a trial court and the Georgia Court of Appeals struck down her claim under the Peach State's anti-SLAPP law. (Anti-SLAPP refers to "strategic lawsuits against public participation." Such statutes aim to protect Americans from baseless legal attacks meant to stifle public debate.) Jonathan Vogel, Mauck's attorney, filed an appeal Monday, asking the Georgia Supreme Court to take up the case.

"Should the anti-SLAPP statute be weaponized to enable cancel culture tactics like this?" Vogel asked in an interview with The Daily Signal on Monday. "Surely, it was not enacted for this purpose. It really turns the anti-SLAPP statute on its head."