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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17202407

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced a bill this week to legally erase transgender people, entitled the “Defining Male and Female Act of 2024.” He claimed that the bill will stop what he called the Biden administration’s attempt to “replace biological sex with dangerous radical gender ideology.”

The bill is a long list of terms and definitions, where words like “father” and “girl” are defined with the words “male” and “female.” Those two words are then defined as “an individual who naturally has, had, will have, or would have, but for a congenital anomaly or intentional or unintentional disruption, the reproductive system that at some point produces, transports and utilizes [sperm or eggs for male or female, respectively] for fertilization.”

  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
    29·
    28 days ago

    They’re not even replacing anything, they’re just adding to it. Why do ya’ll even care. Life is already so fucking miserable, even worse when you feel like you’re not even in the right body. Fucking help people. Why is it that seemingly every politician just hates people? Why go out of your wait to be a representative just to make people miserable.

    • ATDA@lemmy.world
      6·
      28 days ago

      Because picking on ever smaller societal minority classes makes them look hard on the issues. Torturing people that otherwise don’t effect you is easy political points for heartless monsters representing imbeciles.

      Exploiting hatred instead of trying to resolve hatred really.

  • enbyecho@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    28 days ago

    Ya know, this “guy” goes by the name Roger and wears a suit and tie - why I bet he uses the “mens” bathroom… but how do we even know he’s “male”? No seriously, how do we know he’s not secretly just using the “mens” to try to assault/molest/peep on other alleged “men”?

    I mean, if he’s defining “male” then what follows, clearly, are inspections. He should not be exempt from them but, if he truly has nothing to hide, should be willing to be first in line.

    wHaT ArE yOu HiDiNg “Roger”?

  • SleepyBear@lemmy.world
    8·
    28 days ago

    Imagine if we had a senate that was focused on real political and social issues instead of who has the “right” to go to the bathroom. Fucking nonsense.

  • fedupwithbureaucracy@lemmy.world
    36·
    30 days ago

    We really need to start saying that these people want their own family members killed. It seems to be the only thing that can get some people to listen

  • kescusay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1291·
    30 days ago

    Might as well define the Earth as flat and the Moon as green cheese while he’s at it.

    Do these fuckers have literally nothing else to do than wage wars against reality?

    • MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world
      161·
      29 days ago

      It keeps us divided. It misdirects the anger of their base towards something other than how badly they are being fucked.

      Never attribute that to malice which can be adequately explained by stupidity… Unless it comes from the mouth of a Republican politician.

    • lettruthout@lemmy.worldEnglish
      59·
      30 days ago

      Maybe a strategy to distract the masses while they and their supporters handlers steal the country blind.

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          24 days ago

          Yes, because “the” bible.

          That’s the level of idiocy we are dealing with. These people have always been among us, and refuse to learn shit. They insist their kids are at LEAST as stupid as they are, lest they claim others are “indoctrinating” their kids with the “woke” agenda and other such nonsense - the terms have changed, the Birchers used other terms for it, like “Communist agenda”, the hatriots in the 90s used terms like “political correctness”, the teabaggers continued to talk about “political correctness”, the qanon types whine about “DEI” and “being woke” and getting “cancelled”.

          These people are all the same - qanon crazies == teabaggers == hatriots == Birchers. Only some of the labels have changed.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      24 days ago

      They are going to need something to distract from the economic misery all the dumbfucks voted for are going to be getting (along with everyone else).

      I mean, if donvict really does tariffs and deportations, we are going to be in the Great Depression 2.0.

      Punching down on trans (and gays/lesbians, and POC, and women, and non-xtians, and liberals, and foreigners that they aren’t already deporting) and doing stupid things like trying to get “the” bible being taught in our schools will become priority #1 if the economy goes totally pear-shaped.

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
    701·
    30 days ago

    I kind of feel like all this spawned from some hot trans-girl turning down one of these shitstains and they’ve never let it go.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    291·
    29 days ago

    Someone should establish a Department of Senate Efficiency to look into whether that is an efficient use of the senates time.

  • Dasus@lemmy.world
    11·
    28 days ago

    No-one is “replacing biological sex” silly.

    Gender is different from sex. It’s related, but separate.

  • sennish@lemm.eeEnglish
    23·
    28 days ago

    “As a physician who has delivered over 5,000 babies, I can confidently say that politicizing children’s gender to use them as pawns in their radical woke agenda is not only wrong, it is extremely dangerous" has got to be the most unaware sentence I’ve ever seen.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1610·
    28 days ago

    If centrists wanted to be upset about bigotry against trans people, they could have started when they were blaming trans people for Harris losing. They could have started when their candidates were parroting Republican “boys in girls’ sports” bigotry in their own ads.

    The indignation here rings hollow because like all the pretended morals of centrism, it is hollow.

    • TheFonz@lemmy.world
      714·
      28 days ago

      For the first time in history we had a president address trans issues in a state of the union. No democratic politicians have enacted legislation against Trans - in fact quite the opposite. But here you stand grandstanding again.

      Get over blaming centrists for all your problems and enjoy the next four years

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        77·
        28 days ago

        Tell me, how happy were you to see the bigotry you agree with at all times repeated by candidates in your own party?

        • TheFonz@lemmy.world
          45·
          28 days ago

          Like what? Got any examples?

          Edit: I see just down votes. Anyone got examples??

            • TheFonz@lemmy.world
              54·
              28 days ago

              I remember these now. I find those two candidates and their messaging despicable. However I should caveat: these are two small town local races. They run in stark contrast to the messaging from the President.

              I understand the Dnc is a big party tent. In an ideal world I’d love to see a true progressive party take hold in America. The DNC needs a thorough shake up. Im feeling pretty glum about it atm tbh

              • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
                56·
                28 days ago

                However I should caveat: these are two small town local races

                Allred was running for US Senate. Gonzalez was running to represent TX-34 in the US House of Representatives. I gave you their names and you can use google.

                I understand the Dnc is a big party tent.

                Yeah, big enough for anti-trans hate and not one but two Cheneys. But fuck progressives.

                In an ideal world I’d love to see a true progressive party take hold in America.

                And an ideal world is your prerequisite since it means shutting out progressives until that happens.

                • TheFonz@lemmy.world
                  32·
                  28 days ago

                  I personally didn’t shut down progressives. When I say ideal world I’m just stating my preference. As in I’d really like to see a progressive party. Non the other way around.

        • TheFonz@lemmy.world
          2·
          27 days ago

          It’s the only options we got in a FPTP. If you think not participating absolves you of any moral agency then you are just naive. I never said the democrats were champions of trans issues. I said steps were being taken in the right direction. They were very small steps, but it was something. Democracy demands vigilance and active participation. Its only as strong as it’s participating individuals. The same goes for any other polity, so don’t delude yourself in thinking that we are immune to corruption in any alternate system either.

  • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.socialEnglish
    43·
    30 days ago

    We need media stepping up the messaging that the Right is infatuated with the genitals of people, especially children. Outside of maybe your Dr. (and/or partner), nobody should be talking about, or caring about your genitals to the degree the Right is in this pervy/pedo crusade of late.