Women are now free to "free the nipple" in Fort Collins, Colo. A federal judge blocked a city ordinance banning women from showing their breasts in public Wednesday because it discriminates against women. City officials say the law put in place in 2015—excepting women who breastfeed—protects children, while an assistant police chief testified that bare female breasts would cause traffic accidents.

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But US District Judge R. Brooke Jackson wasn't buying those arguments. As a breast is one of the first things a child sees, "children do not need to be protected from [it] … but from the negative societal norms, expectations, and stereotypes associated with it," he wrote in granting a preliminary injunction, reports the Denver Post.

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