Another new phrase in our lexicon: Non binary people. WTF are they?
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Josh Hawley, a Republican senator from Missouri, was accused of being “transphobic” by a law professor on Tuesday, at a hearing on the consequences of the supreme court decision to overturn Roe v Wade, the ruling which guaranteed the right to abortion.
During the judiciary committee hearing, Hawley, who has previously co-sponsored a bill which would prevent transgender children from competing in sports, questioned Khiara Bridges, a professor at UC Berkeley School of Law who was invited to testify on reproductive rights.
Ringed-up professor of law Khiara Bridges
Bridges replied: “Many women, cis women, have the capacity for pregnancy. Many cis women do not have the capacity for pregnancy. There are also trans men who are capable of pregnancy, as well as non-binary people who are capable of pregnancy.”
Republicans, and other organizations in the US and beyond, have repeatedly sought to diminish the rights of trans people. Parts of the US have seen a rise in anti-LGBTQ+ hate and also anti-LGTBQ+ legislation over the past year.
Hawley said: “So this isn’t really a women’s rights issue. It’s … it’s what?”
She added: “I want to recognise that your line of questioning is transphobic and it opens up trans people to violence by not recognizing them.”
Hawley said: “You’re saying that I’m opening up people to violence by asking whether or not women are the folks who can have pregnancies?”
Bridges said: “I wanna note that one out of five transgender persons have attempted suicide. Denying that trans people exist and pretending not to know that they exist is dangerous.”...
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Enough of this queer "news": https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/repub ... e-hearing/