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.”

128 points

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?

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59 points

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

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16 points

I think you mis-spelled “Likely”.

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10 points

I know you misspelled “certainly.”

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They might try. They’ve already tried to legislate a definition of pi to equal exactly 3.

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No, I refuse to believe that’s ever hap-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill

Motherfucker

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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.

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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.

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Yes because if they admit reality, none of them should be in power.

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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.

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This is surely going to lower the price of eggs.

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When women are factory farmed baby makers…oh you meant those eggs.

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I came here to ask this - it seems a very curious mechanism for lowering the price of eggs and reversing inflation back to the halcyon days of donvict’s first term:

    1. First, punch down on trans.
    1. ???
    1. Eggs become like a penny each! Premium gas is 50 cents a gallon!
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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.

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To be honest it’s probably all the hot trans-girls turning them down, like there’s a conspiracy or something, but hot trans-girls just don’t like conservative assholes.

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Setting aside the mind, it is a biological fact that approximately 1 in 1700 people are born with both sexual organs.

They’re supposed to just, die?

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What seems like a rhetorical question to you does not to a fascist.

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According to Republicans, yes

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Because irony has been bludgeoned to death by these bigots, I’d like to point out they’ve already been performing sex-reassignment surgery on intersex infants to make them conform to a binary sex, without the knowledge or consent of the baby and sometimes the parents. That’s been happening for ages in some places.

So all their tantrums over kids getting sex surgeries are technically true, except they have it completely backwards. It’s done to newborns to force traditional conformity, and they’re the ones doing it.

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Intersex people occur at the same rate as redheads. This is the same thing as a proposal to kill all redheads for being redheads

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This is really fascinating. I had to idea. Would love to read more on this if you have any recommendations

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But gingers don’t have a soul so I guess it’s fine?

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Another fact, indigenous peoples all over the world had several genders, some dozens.

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45 points

Not the dangerous radical gender ideology of trying to be happy

Is there any argument for trans people getting their rights removed?

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Bigotry

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People dont hate trans people just to hate trans people. They have reason, even if they are bad

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Bullshit. It comes from a simple disgust reflex. Everything else is post-hoc justification.

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Name one.

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People can hate other people simply to make themselves feel better. Or for societal gain. That is less a reason for “why should this person be hated”, and more “what will I gain for hating/inciting hate against this person”.

You can go to pretty much any school and find someone being excluded or bullied for a nonsensical reason. I remember growing up when being “gay” was the worst thing someone could be in middleschool. That hate didn’t come from reasoned arguments or even fear. It came from something being different and the knowledge of calling someone out for being gay could societally give you a leg up on them.

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It’s literally just bigotry and propaganda

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The reason is bigotry. And misogyny.

I doubt you’ll see them freaking out about trans men playing men’s sports.

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