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.”

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

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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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      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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      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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    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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      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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    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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            That was what i was asking

            One argument i have seen against acknowledging the existence of trans people is that people will be tricked into changing their gender

            Its not a good argument, but it exists.

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                I wasnt asking for valid arguments against a group of people

                Also, i had to search the definition of the word subtext

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              Making everything sexual for children while not even acknowledging the sickness of it.

              Same shit said about gay people.

              Being gay isn’t sexual. Being straight isn’t sexual. Being trans isn’t sexual. Someone saying they are a girl is not sexual. Someone saying they are a boy is not sexual.

              You see how none of this relates to sex?

              The real answer is that a lot of people don’t really understand being trans. A lot of people used to the same way about gay and lesbian people. Conservatives tried to rally hard against gay and lesbian people, but that proved unpopular. Trans people don’t have that same protection. So, they’ll go after it until people finally get it.

              Conservatives only have identity politics.

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                I’ll agree someone saying they are are a girl/boy or trans isn’t sexual. Gender isn’t inherently sexual. Someone being gay/straight feels like it’s absolutely sexual. Implied with the"sexual" in homo or heterosexual. You could have nonsexual gay/straight thoughts/feelings I guess, but those are just feelings. Like, ANYONE is allowed to have them regardless of orientation, and honestly sounds like it’s bordering on asexual. Do you have a learning example for that line of thought? Before any angry blowback: I’m not trying to be a dick about this. As far as my understanding of this goes, I don’t follow that comment.

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                I’m referring to nudity and expressing sexuality in front of children. Drag and children. Parades of expression with children involved. Seeing essentially naked men and women and children being encouraged to interact in it.

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                  Nudity is also not inherently sexual. You can be naked for reasons outside of having sex, such as cleaning yourself, using the bathroom, changing outfits, sunbathing, relaxing, etc. None of those are inherently sexual.

                  Wearing drag is not sexual either. It’s been a thing for centuries, and that’s just the easily identifiable stuff.

                  Wearing kink gear is not inherently sexual, though I can understand that you don’t recognize that because it has connotations. But you can wear it without it being a sexual act.

                  “Expressing” sexuality is purposefully vague. Is kissing expressing sexuality? Is holding hands? Children do those. That would be an expression of your sexual orientation. You aren’t really making any sense.

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                  Good lord, nudity isn’t even a real issue. I regularly swim laps at my local public pool, and the changing room and showers regularly see a mix of children and adults. I don’t see any kids getting their innocence destroyed in the locker room or showers, and we’re all naked in there.

                  People only care when it’s trans people wearing clothes. They don’t really care about nudity, they’re trying to create a moral panic about queer people by suggesting that they are a threat to children.

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              If that were a valid explanation then why is the bill banning any adult recognition of trans adults?

              There’s a different conversation on whether to allow gender affirming therapy for minors.

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                Sure. Different conversation I agree. I wasn’t commenting to the original post. Just that the idea that transgenderism and the issues surrounding it arent hard discussions with people outside of the community here is irrational.

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              Ah yes not bigotry just made up bs points that are meant to do nothing but stop trans people from being accepted.

              A lot of these points had analogues in the past with other minority rights movements, but why look to the past and see how those points were non-issues when we can instead get mad about the transgenders CoNfUsInG OuR ChIlDrEn.

              And

              Suicide causes for transgender teens is often reported as bullying or bigotry, but not often reported on the lack of support for dysphoria and other mental health conditions.

              This just means we need to let kids be who they are and support them in their transition, that is the only logical conclusion of that issue.

              People matter.

              Unless they’re t****n freaks, then they can get outed to their abusive parents and sent to conversion camps for all I care :^)

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                Are you referring to yourself? No one who loves their children wants to send them to conversion camp. There are definitely discussions to have regarding the proper medical treatments and psychological care and how the involvement of the state and legislature hurts more than helps. But I don’t want the state being involved in how we raise our children. I don’t want to change children or parents sending their kids to camp. But you can’t pretend that parents and our communities aren’t involved in the way a child is raised, how they grow mentally and encouraging strengths, and guiding them in a healthy way. Let kids be who they are and make sure they get the support they need.

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                  You say that and yet when a child decides to confide in their teacher for their own safety, instead of their parents, you want them to be forced to out the children.

                  And the entire “poor confused children” rhetoric doesn’t do anything but hurt us. We are not confused, we are devastated by being forced to go through the wrong puberty.

                  It really doesn’t sound like you’re a bigot but please examine the sort of rhetoric you take in and spread.

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              “Confusing children during pivotal construction of their identity.”

              Discovering and accepting your identity very much is what transitioning is. According to general society being born as a specific sex implies that identity. In everything from hobbies, clothing, friends. But what if you realise your identity does not align with what your sex implies? Even if it’s something small like a 15-year old boy who likes knitting. That aspect of their identity goes against the implied or expected identity that is based on their physical sex. Is the boy confused because he likes knitting or because what he’s been told what his identity should be doesn’t mesh with who he is?

              “Suicide causes for transgender teens is often reported as bullying or bigotry, but not often reported on the lack of support for dysphoria and other mental health conditions.”

              How are transgender teens supposed to get support for dysphoria if they are instead isolated? In my experience dysphoria isn’t something you just talk to a therapist about and then it’s cured. It’s the horrible visceral feeling I got whenever I was forced to wear a dress shirt. What fixed that? Not wearing a dress shirt. The freedom to wear the clothes that make me comfortable.

              “A lack of stability in life often leads to chaotic life altering decisions, sometimes self harm and death.”

              My life wasn’t more stable before I knew what transgender meant and realised I didn’t identify as a man when I was 19. It was filled with depression, self-isolation, and suicidal ideation. A slow but steady spiral into nothingness. It’s not like dysphoria only exists if we know it exists. Realising I was trans was certainly chaotic. But the reason it was so chaotic was that the identity that had been built up for me was shattered. So now I had to find and rebuild my identity from scratch. What most people spend their time doing from 5-16 I had to do over because I didn’t fit into the identity I was told to build.

              I dealt with self-harm. Still struggle with it sometimes. I learned as a kid to bottle up my feelings. Be it regular sadness or stress, or dysphoria. So I began to use self-harm as a way to escape and cope with those feelings. When I could no longer bottle them up. Just like how people drink to drown their sorrows or do drugs to escape reality. I believe I never would have begun to self-harm if I had been able to build the identity I wanted from the start. If I was allowed to cry, or to express myself in ways that help me cope naturally.

              Why is the inclusion of people - or teenagers in this case - that don’t fit the pre-existing mould and expectations such a problem? The idea that not everyone automatically fits into pre-conceived notions of what a boy and a girl is, or likes, or does, or acts. Is that such a threat to school or society in general?

              Yes we need more help for people with gender dysphoria. But that help isn’t isolation from society. That help isn’t stopping people from trying to figure out who they really are.

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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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          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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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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      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.

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

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    “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.

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    He claimed that the bill will stop what he called the Biden administration’s attempt to “replace biological sex with dangerous radical gender ideology.”

    bill attempts to stop something that was never occuring

    Holy shit, it worked and it hasn’t even been signed yet.

    I don’t know about y’all but I don’t remember Kamala or Biden directly spreading information in favor of lgbtq+ values. That’s mostly been Hollywood. There might be some lobbying going on and some shoulder rubbing, but… I mean, I have yet to even hear Biden say the word trans in any real context unless I’m wrong, here. Their stance is less a stance and more of a “you’re human, you’re cool too”.

    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, so…

    “Hey, my podcast said you didn’t exist yesterday.”

    …sorry to disappoint you.

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      That’s mostly been Hollywood.

      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 this…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 all…and there is a ready set of Youtube “influencers” set up to get them agitated and outraged about all this, funneling them right into the douchebag universe of angry bros.

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    No-one is “replacing biological sex” silly.

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

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      Aren’t doctors supposed to take an oath to do no harm? This will cause so much harm.

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      Dr Oz is a real doctor as well. Unfortunately medical school doesn’t prevent people from being delusional. Or giant assholes for that matter

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    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.