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.”

  • Didros@beehaw.org
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    8 days ago

    Can the legislature just decide to define basket balls as all round objects inflated with air? Does that make soccer a basketball sport?

    Like I honestly don’t even know what the goal of this bill is other than showing off being a bigot to tge other bigots…

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      7 days ago

      I think the goal is to make trans people suffer in fear, for the simple reason that their existence confuses Republicans and makes them feel funny.