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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.”

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[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think you mis-spelled "Likely".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I know you misspelled "certainly."

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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

Motherfucker...

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[–] timbuck2themoon 112 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is surely going to lower the price of eggs.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

According to Republicans, yes

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not the dangerous radical gender ideology of trying to be happy

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week 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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wait, if they are erased, can they then become invisible superheroes?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

@floofloof And this guy is an actual MD, as in medical doctor.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

~~Republican~~ lawmakers only swear an oath to whomever is paying them the most.

Edit: Democrats do it too, just not as obviously and not all of them. Until we get rid of corporate lobbying, we'll be firmly in an oligarchy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Technically, no. "Do no harm" was the motto of a 19th century French physician and later made its way into medical textbooks, but it is not found in the Hippocratic oath.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It seems those exact words don't feature in the oath, but the pledge to do no harm is there, worded slightly differently.

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Dr. Oz is the 1 doctor out of 10 who chooses the other brand.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Well, said senator could find himself and his cohorts erased as well

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