The Colorado baker who won a partial Supreme Court victory after refusing on religious grounds to make a gay couple’s wedding cake a decade ago is challenging a separate ruling he violated the state’s anti-discrimination law by refusing to make a cake celebrating a gender transition.

A lawyer for Jack Phillips on Wednesday urged Colorado’s appeals court — largely on procedural grounds — to overturn last year’s ruling in a lawsuit brought by a transgender woman.

The woman, Autumn Scardina, called Phillips’ suburban Denver cake shop in 2017 requesting a birthday cake that had blue frosting on the outside and was pink inside to celebrate her gender transition. At trial last year, Phillips, a Christian, testified he did not think someone could change genders and he would not celebrate “somebody who thinks that they can.”

Jake Warner, an attorney representing Phillips from the conservative Christian legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom, said the ruling was wrong. He said requiring Phillips to create a cake with a message contrary to his religious beliefs amounts to forcing him to say something he does not believe, violating his right to free speech.

[The next time this gets to the Supreme Court had better be the last time, because this is getting tedious as well as outrageous. Meanwhile, let’s note that the plaintiff-troll in this case had a perfectly viable option for his/her “gender transition” cake, but follow the thread at your NSFW discretion — Ed]

11 miles down the road from #MasterpieceCakeshop, there’s an LGBTQ/erotica cake store called Le’Bakery Sensual.

I’ll spare you some of most graphic photos, but exactly why would you feel the need to make a Christian baker bake a sex-transition cake when you could go here?🧵 pic.twitter.com/s2sQRG2dTl

— Edie Heipel (@ediemheipel) October 6, 2022