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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 āDefining Male and Female Act of 2024.ā He claimed that the bill will stop what he called the Biden administrationās attempt to āreplace biological sex with dangerous radical gender ideology.ā
The bill is a long list of terms and definitions, where words like āfatherā and āgirlā are defined with the words āmaleā and āfemale.ā Those two words are then defined as āan 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.ā
Holy shit, it worked and it hasnāt even been signed yet.
I donāt know about yāall but I donāt remember Kamala or Biden directly spreading information in favor of lgbtq+ values. Thatās mostly been Hollywood. There might be some lobbying going on and some shoulder rubbing, butā¦ I mean, I have yet to even hear Biden say the word trans in any real context unless Iām wrong, here. Their stance is less a stance and more of a āyouāre human, youāre cool tooā.
But the scene does seem to be that the Republican party can just claim they stopped Kaijus and Holy wars and their fanbases will eat it up, soā¦
āHey, my podcast said you didnāt exist yesterday.ā
ā¦sorry to disappoint you.
That is the irony - there is a huge set of butthurt incels that are deeply incensed about what they see happening in culture. They seem to think it has been legislated. Honestly, part of me does wonder if big money is behind trying to annoy just enough of these types to tip things in the favor of the big money party - the Republicans.
Huge companies like Disney seem to almost be setting money on fire to do thisā¦and it has zero to do with Democrats. It also seems to be making more Republicans with the sanctimonious aspect of it all. Representation is one thing, but some of this almost seems like its goes out of its way to give the finger to people that are otherwise kind of apolitical, thus radicalizing them and they blame Democrats for it allā¦and there is a ready set of Youtube āinfluencersā set up to get them agitated and outraged about all this, funneling them right into the douchebag universe of angry bros.