GOP senator introduces bill to legally erase transgender people - eviltoast

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.”

  • EndOfLine@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas has spent WAY too much time thinking about genitals.

    How does his definition accommodate for intersex and hermaphrodites? With his medical background he surely is aware of these conditions and didn’t ignore them just to accommodate his own personal prejudice, right?

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      1 month ago

      That would fall under “congenital anomaly”. What that means legally for the person is anyone’s guess though.

      Sex/gender shouldn’t even be something the law can affect - a good law applies to all humans, regardless of what’s in their pants.

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        1 month ago

        I don’t!!!

        Last month I used hooker dust (i.e. Glitter) and that was such a surprise! It washes right out, at some point, I’m sure…

        This month I’m using raw hamburger meat…

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    They’re testing new lines. Put your Reps on speed dial, folks, we’re all gonna have to put on our Type A hats for at least two years.

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    Welp America will deserve the brain drain it gets from stuff like this