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Related: About this forumWest Virginia bill defining gender is transphobic and 'political rubbish,' Democrats say
Source: Associated Press
West Virginia bill defining gender is transphobic and political rubbish, Democrats say
BY JOHN RABY
Updated 4:32 PM EST, February 14, 2024
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) West Virginias Republican-supermajority House of Delegates overwhelmingly passed legislation Wednesday to narrow the definitions of gender that Democrats label as a dystopian bill that would give women no additional rights and is a way for the GOP to suppress transgender people.
The bill passed on an 87-12 vote and now goes to the GOP-dominated Senate.
I cannot believe were doing this on Valentines Day, said Democratic Del. Kayla Young, of Kanawha County.
The legislation says equal does not mean same or identical with respect to equality of the sexes. It would define in state statues and official public policies that a persons sex is determined at birth and that gender equity terms may not be substituted. It also would establish that certain single-sex environments, such as athletics, locker rooms and bathrooms, are not discriminatory.
During a public hearing at the state Capitol last week, dozens of speakers condemned the Womens Bill of Rights, with many transgender people saying it promoted transphobia. ...
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/west-virginia-womens-rights-bill-f12cdbbb21b55f9bd10c6ac75e68a366
Jilly_in_VA
(10,989 posts)Gender is a whole lot more than a simple X or Y chromosome. What do they propose to do about intersex people? Anyway, there are not only XX and XY, but XXY and XYY and a whole host of other combinations thereof. There's that pesky little SRY gene that attaches to your chromosome (I forget now which one but I think it's the X) and can actually determine, possibly, whether you might be cis or gay or trans or maybe asexual or something else. They all need to go back and take a human biology course with a competent teacher before they ever think about passing a law like this again.
Why can't RepubliKKKans get their heads out of other people's underpants and bedrooms?
Charging Triceratops
(349 posts)But that's simply way too complicated for West Virginia minds.
twodogsbarking
(12,230 posts)wearing a shirt that said "What the fuck are you looking at?" Another WV moment. The people need help bad and worse yet is they don't know it.