He huffed about how the question wasn’t “appropriate” even though his bill would result in kids being asked that same question.
A Republican state rep from Michigan testifying about his anti-trans sports bill on Monday was left speechless after an out Democratic colleague began his questioning by asking, “Representative, can you tell me: are you trans?”
A long beat staring down out gay Democratic state Rep. Mike McFall followed, before state Rep. Jason Woolford ® managed to reply, “Are you?”
“I’m actually going somewhere with this,” he said to lawmakers in the small chamber.
“Because I want to know, how does a 14-year-old girl prove whether or not she’s trans to a 50-year-old coach?”
I take the long view too.
In the 1950s they would tell you that being gay is a sin. They would call homosexuality a danger to society, a threat to children, a product of brainwashing and perversion and all sorts of abhorrent hateful things.
In the 2020s most of them are saying the exact same things about being transgender. That they are a danger to society, a threat to women and children, and a product of brainwashing and perversion.
But an increasing number are yet again saying the exact same things about gay people, and celebrating that they can finally “say it like it is”. Those that ever stopped, that is.
In the 1950s many of them would also tell you that <insert racial slur here> don’t belong in positions of leadership or deserve jobs or support. That they are unqualified, uneducated, inferior, lazy, or outright violent criminals.
In the 2020s many of them are saying that <insert racial minority here> don’t belong in positions of leadership or deserve jobs or support. That they are unqualified, uneducated, untrustworthy, lazy, or outright violent criminals.
If you really believe that any of this is new, that any of this is different, that any of it has ever had anything to do with taste in music, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. They’ve changed the words around, they’ve adapted to the times and say things like “woke” and “DEI”, but they’re using those words to gleefully campaign against minorities in government, in schools, in the workforce, and in healthcare.
Whatever nonsense they come up with today will be used to spread hate, fear, and ignorance among their voters and keep racial, sexual, and gender minorities oppressed and vilified as the useful scapegoats for all of problems of the day that their nonsense often caused and yet is somehow hailed as a solution.
Just wanted to let you know I saved a copy of this text to share with my friend group. This encapsulates so much of the conservative logos in a way that makes it transparent what’s going on today.
Plenty of people have pointed out that trans panic is just gay panic rebranded for the modern day but this was the most eloquent and concise way of putting it I’ve ever seen in text format. Thanks for taking the time.