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submitted 2 days ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/politics@lemmy.world

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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[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 122 points 2 days ago

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?

[-] lettruthout@lemmy.world 56 points 2 days ago

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

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 15 points 2 days ago

I think you mis-spelled "Likely".

[-] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

I know you misspelled "certainly."

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[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 40 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 64 points 2 days ago

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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[-] fedupwithbureaucracy@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days 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

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 12 points 2 days ago

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

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[-] MarkAB@mastodon.world 8 points 2 days ago

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

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 days ago

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

[-] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day 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

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

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

[-] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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?

[-] tiefling 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 day ago

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

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Yeah for sure. I understand. I wish people could just be.

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