‘Most Hogwarty Dress Ever’: Emma Watson’s Gravity Defying Dress Splits Fans

Emma Watson definitely got everyone’s attention when she posted a photo of her wearing a gravity-defying dress that left fans questioning how it was staying up.

In the 33-year-old actress’ Instagram post, the star was wearing a strapless pale blue dress that looked more like an upside down umbrella before it’s opened. Many of the comments from fans had some fun connecting the “floating” dress to spells her character Hermione Granger in the “Harry Potter” franchise would use.

“This dress is defying physics,” one person wrote.

Another wrote, “the dress looks like it’s floating. I’m trying to understand.”

 

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While another wrote in the comments section, “What in the wingardium leviosa is that dress,” a reference to a spell in “Harry Potter” to make objects levitate.

“I’m all for sustainable fashion but ma’am are you wearing an upside down umbrella?” one person wrote. While another joked, “This is the most hogwarty dress ever.”

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And others were just happy to see they weren’t the only ones confused about the structure of the dress, Page Six noted.

“I’m so happy I’m not the only one who thought the dress is defying gravity,” one wrote.

Another wrote, “After reading through comments I feel less bad about how long I had to stare at her dress to figure out what was happening.”

Another shared a joke from the “Harry Potter” franchise, “This is what happens when you say LeviOsa instead of Leviosa.”

A third joked, “I think someone forgot to take the hangers out of her dress before she put it on,” and “Emma be lookin like a closed umbrella.”

However, others seemed less amused and took the time out to describe how the dress worked.

“The dress has pieces in it that make it stand up,” one wrote. “If you zoom in on the image you can see that it’s just the way the dress was fashioned.”

Another added, “People, come on! The dress is not ‘hanging from her ears’ or ‘Photoshopped,’ the dress is designed to have ‘bones,’ it’s just couture. Never seen the Met Gala and its over the top gowns?”

Judge Strikes Down Arkansas Law Banning Sex-Change Procedures For Minors As ‘Unconstitutional’

A federal judge struck down Arkansas’ ban on sex-change surgeries and treatments for minors as unconstitutional on Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Jay Moody issued the ruling, permanently blocking the law — which would have forbidden doctors from providing hormones, puberty blockers, and sex-change surgeries for minors — after temporarily blocking it in 2021. 

“Rather than protecting children or safeguarding medical ethics, the evidence showed that the prohibited medical care improves the mental health and well-being of patients and that, by prohibiting it, the state undermined the interests it claims to be advancing,” the Obama-appointed judge wrote in his opinion. 

Moody’s scientific claim stands in sharp contrast to many medical journals that warn of the dangers of such treatments and provide little evidence of benefits to minors, as was highlighted in a recent hearing in the House Subcommittee on Health.

Moody argued that the law violated the due process and equal protection rights of trans-identifying minors. He relied on heavily substantive due process, a theory that argues that the Due Process clause protects rights found nowhere in the U.S. Constitution. 

The judge also argued the 2021 law violated the First Amendment rights of doctors by banning them from referring patients to other providers. He hinged on the fact Arkansas used the word “refer” rather than “prescribing or administering” as evidence the law was viewpoint discrimination, making it unconstitutional.

The first-in-the-nation ruling may set a precedent for 19 other state laws seeking to protect children from sex-denying treatments that are in litigation. While other judges have temporarily blocked similar laws, as in Indiana and Alabama, this is the first such law to be struck down as unconstitutional.

Dylan Brandt, 17, who successfully sued the state in the case, reacted to the decision in a statement released by the ACLU.  “I’m so grateful the judge heard my experience of how this health care has changed my life for the better and saw the dangerous impact this law could have on my life and that of countless other transgender people,” he said.

The Arkansas statute was enacted by the Arkansas legislature in 2021 over the veto of then-Governor Asa Hutchinson, who is now running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Hutchinson said the law was “extreme” because it affected those already receiving sex-change treatments. The law was the first in the United States to ban the controversial treatments.

Hutchinson’s successor, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, signed legislation to effectively restore the 2021 law by creating an avenue for individuals who received “gender affirming care” to pursue civil litigation against medical providers who perform sex change procedures on minors. According to legal experts, the 2023 law, which takes effect this summer, effectively stops those treatments by making it impossible for medical providers to get malpractice insurance.

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