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?”

  • futatorius@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Look, the reasoning is far cruder than that. It actually goes like this:

    1. False assumption 1: Men are superior to women.

    2. False assumption 2: Trans women are men.

    3. False conclusion, based on the false assumptions: Therefore, trans women are superior to cis women, which is cheating.

    Also the Christian fundies, much like Muslim fundies, are believers in strict gender apartheid, and according to their fallacious assumptions (as I’ve listed above) allowing trans women on teams with cis women would violate that segregation.