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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    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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    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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            Confusing children during pivotal construction of their identity.

            Encouraging life changing and life altering medical treatments and medications during the confusion, sometimes leading to regret albeit very low 1% or less detransition with proper psychological help.

            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.

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

            Chaos and instability caused by the movement have created schisms in classrooms, identity in schools become more chaotic leading to worse public school safety. Especially when inclusivity becomes the #1 school agenda, leading to some schools and teachers even taking it upon themselves to “guide” students without parental consent. Creating distrust in parental and teacher relationships.

            People matter. I’ll get down voted for saying it, but there has to be an understanding of the need for a stable help for people with gender dysphoria. The inclusivity of it has hurt the movement more. Making everything sexual for children while not even acknowledging the sickness of it.

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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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              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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              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’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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                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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            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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              Do you know what pretense is?

              Bigots make excuses. Those excuses are not why they’re bigots.

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                  By arguments, i meant those excuses

                  No, you did not.

                  You said: “People don’t hate trans people just to hate trans people. They have reasons, even if they are bad.”

                  But they’re just excuses. Bigots hate their victims just to hate their victims. The excuses they give are not reasons.

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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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    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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    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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    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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      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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    Man, I hope all the trans who said they wouldn’t vote for Harris because she didn’t talk about them are feeling great about the new government that will be in control during the next few years!

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    of course I hate the active reduction of freedom. But may I ask, how important is this? Will trans people be able to continue to survive? Existing and being who you believe you are seems to be the important detail which pisses then off. They can’t do anything but be explicitly rude.

    Should someone decide to fight you for being trans, I will fight for + with you.

    Writing this comment mildly drunk, I’m sure there’s problems with it, but what if it’s like rain off a window, you look at it and ignore it?

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      Getting rid of Title IX protections is going to make surviving pretty fucking hard if you wind up with a bigoted manager who decides to fire you… Or just companies decide they don’t want to hire trans people at all.

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      This is a precursor to them trying to sue trans people for “fraud” by having documents with the correct gender marker. Also, the cruelty is the point, and this is in itself cruel.

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        Cripes. The fuckin struggle just to survive never ends. I don’t get what people’s problem is, and at this point an convinced I never will. Fuck em.

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      They can also force transgender people in institutional settings (prison, college, military, etc) to be housed with the wrong gender. That can be dangerous.