Federal Judge’s Recusal Sought in Transgender Sports Case

A Colorado federal judge is being asked to recuse himself from a case regarding a collegiate athletic conference’s policy for transgender athletes over procedures that he adopted for the use of preferred pronouns in his courtroom.

US District Judge Kato Crews adopted practice standards in December that say attorneys are “invited and encouraged to identify the applicable pronouns of counsel, litigants, and witnesses at the earliest juncture possible.”

Outlined in the “Uniform Civil Practice Standards,” if someone uses the wrong pronoun, lawyers are encouraged to “bring that to the Court’s attention at the time, or through a subsequent email to ...