Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert has prompted thousands of comments with a tweet appearing to suggest that people should not be allowed to disclose their sexuality or gender identity before the age of 21.
On Friday morning (April 1), she tweeted: “We require people to be 21 to purchase alcohol beverages, and 21 to purchase tobacco products. Why is it so unreasonable to require people to reach a certain level of maturity before making life-altering decisions about their sexuality and identity?”
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Admittedly, this was tweeted on the morning of April Fool’s Day. However, given Boebert’s consistent complaints about trans women participating in women’s sport, and previous objections to the Equality Act, no one took her tweet as an attempt at humor.
We require people to be 21 to purchase alcohol beverages, and 21 to purchase tobacco products.
Why is it so unreasonable to require people to reach a certain level of maturity before making life-altering decisions about their sexuality and identity?
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) April 1, 2022
Unsurprisingly, Twitter had a lot to say, with many reminding Boebert, 35, of her own rush to embrace her sexuality as a teenager.
Boebert dropped out of High School. It’s known she was with her partner and future husband, Jayson Steven Boebert, by the time she was 17.
At around this time, Jayson pleaded guilty to charges of “public indecency and lewd exposure“, after an incident at a bowling alley in which he reportedly took his penis out of his pants to show off a tattoo to two young women. Boebert, who was also present at the time, defended her then-boyfriend by claiming he’d stuck his thumb out of his zipper as a prank. He was sentenced to four days in jail and a subsequent two years on probation.
The couple, who married in 2005, have four sons. Boebert fell pregnant with her eldest son when she was 18.
Related: Lauren Boebert announces new gender identity
When Boebert talks about making “life-altering decisions” about sexuality, she’s not talking about heterosexuality. She’s never campaigned to raise the age at which couples can marry. She’s talking about LGBTQ people only.
Here are just a few of the 12k+ tweets in response.
And weren’t you fucking a sex offender before you were old enough to buy alcohol?
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) April 1, 2022
You were 16 or 17 when you made the life altering decision to have sex, pop out a kid, quit school and get married.
— Pro-Choice Adoptee with a WHITEBOARD 🦂🖤🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@rebelledeb) April 1, 2022
By having consensual sex, you make a decision about your sexuality and identity. Are you against sex before the age of 21, Teen Mom?
— Frank Wears A Mask (@Headfullofnigh1) April 1, 2022
You don’t get to talk about maturity. pic.twitter.com/HI0kfR9OF1
— Abraxsys (@Abraxsys) April 1, 2022
Doesn’t seem like age is a concern here. pic.twitter.com/mqtUbmf4PA
— BBT 🌐 (@CGovid) April 1, 2022
That goes for religious dogma too then right? Don’t teach kids religion till 21 when they can decide for themselves.
Don’t force boy girl relations either. Don’t teach about marriage because they aren’t old enough.
— Cynterra (@Cynterrageo) April 1, 2022
We require people to be 21 to purchase alcohol beverages, and 21 to purchase tobacco products.
Why is it so unreasonable to require people to reach a certain level of maturity before purchasing a gun?
— Kal – Fear a party that fears your vote. (@TruthJustis4USA) April 1, 2022
We require people to be 21 to purchase alcohol beverages, and 21 to purchase tobacco products.
Why is it so unreasonable to require people to reach a certain level of maturity before making life-altering decisions about joining the military?
— Mushy Sparrow (@Mushy_Sparrow) April 1, 2022
Woman who dropped out of high school because she was pregnant would like to talk to you about not allowing people under 21 to make decisions regarding sex and identity.
Next up: Bristol Palin on Celibacy. https://t.co/0qIgVToO1D
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 3, 2022
Cam
Why is Queerty describing the incident where Boebert’s husband was arrested from HIS point of view?
Fact is, he got busted for exposing himself to underaged girls in public.
MrMichaelJ
So this asshat couldn’t pass her GED after THREE tries and had to just be given one on the “fourth”. Really says it all about the GOP right now.
miller2900
…let’s not forget all of the trailer trash that keeps voting for Republicans….and in many cases against their own best interest because they are too dam stupid to know what voting is all about! Case in point are the videos played out on television showing Trump’s latest trip into Michigan. I moved to the West Coast in my early 20’s but still have family and life long friends in Michigan. They can’t figure out what happened either. The unfortunate thing is that my life long friends have College friends that ended up being Trump followers also. If they happen to be at my friends when I travel back to Michigan and go to visit for dinner, I turn around and leave or make an excuse that I can’t make it that day.
sbsfo
There’s a reason the Rethugs dislike higher education… er, any education at all. It’s because an electorate lacking in critical thinking skills is extremely vulnerable to authoritarian sophistry and demagoguery. Is it any surprise that the central/south red states all rank below the 50th percentile in educational spending and achievement?
Bosch
Secrecy and shame are a child-abuser’s most useful tools.
Just sayin’.
Mister P
Being gay isn’t a decision.
white-queer-african
I wonder if her parents had access to abortion? Clearly NOT!
One other observation. Where have all the GOP PRAISE SINGERS disappeared too?
No Fake Tits M*ntalMarcy for several days now? No SamB et al for nearly two weeks?
Must be because the net is down in Mother Russia.
FREEDOM TO UKRAINE.
jt1990
You Leftists sure love them abortions lol. But I would agree that her husband’s parents should definitely have aborted. Hopefully the man isn’t exposing himself to more young girls. Just the face could turn most women into lesbians.
Also, my apologies for disappearing, the Klan has kept me quite busy lately. Our annual convention is coming up, and I have a lot of cupcakes to bake. Unfortunately I’m only used to burning things, like Jews and wooden crosses. Any baking advice would be appreciated…
white-queer-african
@jt1990 gurl you not even remotely funny with your comments. If you want to have responses to your comments you need to try and come across as someone a little more intelligent and not just a dumb troll.
Someone that can substance to the conversation. I normally charge a fee for my paying clients, but for you it is free. My contribution for ridding society of idiots.
white-queer-african
“add substance” correction.
Oh how i miss Professor Fake Tits M*ntalMarcy to correct my grammar and spelling. The net being down in Mother Russia a real bummer.
white-queer-african
@jt1990 i am not a leftist. I live in South Africa. I believe and support womans rights. My African-American husband agrees. We support basic human rights including gay rights. America is sadly becoming a joke because of the GOP and Trumpiashm. If you a gay person? you cannot believe for one moment they will cover your back let alone your arse!
Den
“You Leftists sure love them abortions lol.”
Are you really the idiot you seem to be? Nobody “loves” abortion, but women often have to make difficult choices for the sake of existing families, their own future and the viability of a fetus. I realize that empathy or understanding of others is pretty much impossible for people like you, but at least make an effort! Try to be fully human if you can.
Den
“I’m only used to burning things, like Jews and wooden crosses.”
I am going to take that as a statement of fact or true desire. As a Jew, I spit in your face. I’d kick it in if we were to meet.
white-queer-african
@jt1990, biscuit you certainly have major issues. Having “outed” yourself in a previous post as somewhat rather overweight, so I am not fat-shaming you. Get help to get over your insecurities. Try to bait folks with your inane comments is going toget you laid. You will be surprised how many gay guys have a fetish with fatties.
jt1990
@Den: “As a Jew, I spit in your face. I’d kick it in if we were to meet.”
And then you would steal the spare change from my pockets also. I think you took my sarcasm seriously.
jt1990
@white-queer-african: “You will be surprised how many gay guys have a fetish with fatties.”
Believe me, I know! And I’m very surprised at this phenomenon. Many gay guys and a fair number of women do seem to go for the ‘dad bod’ or even downright overweight men, in my experience also. I guess you can say we have a mutual understanding of something at least!
Also, I try not to judge fatties myself but don’t find them at all attractive. The thought of sleeping with someone morbidly obese gives me a bad case of erectile dysfunction.
Max
it should be illegal for Boebert and others working in government to be this stupid. no matter the level, there should be zero excuse and ejection is required.
fur_hunter
…….. Max……. You took the words right out of my mouth. Although, I would NOT have used such kind words for the ST UPID, Uneducated, F UC KING, IMB ECILIC, MO RON, C UN T…….. Mine are much more to the point and true. (I had to do this to my reply as they have not posted my original one due to content. They are monitoring it here at Queerty. They are CONSTANTLY deleting my postings here.) Let’s see if this one gets through.
wiggie
you can literally enlist in the military at 18. Pretty sure that’s a life altering decision.
Bosch
Killing people is fine. Loving people, that’s just evil.
jt1990
Nice job Queerty for (once again) picking on the few short bus kids of the Republican Party. I would say Bozo Boebert needs to stop talking and get back to the kitchen, but then we’d all get food poisoning. (See details on her failed restaurant/food stand attempt for reference.)
Eternal.Cowboy
A few? That would suggest there was a small number. Unfortunately this is the norm for the GOP these days.
Den
Few”
There are a huge number of folks of questionable intellectual skill or mental health both among elected and appointed officials and party members. You, for example, come to mind immediately.
Fahd
Boebert doing her part as the Republican party continues its race to the bottom of human dignity. Decent people need to remain vigilant and fight back, especially at the ballot box. For shame, Colorado, District 3!
shaunpaul1234
Ill kinda go along wth tht, providing people who run for political office, have to prove
They have an IQ above tht of a “nat”, above the level of COMPLETE DUMBASS!!
GayVeteranOfcr
Rep Boebert is not a student of history nor of Supreme Court decisions nor of the Constitution itself. SCOTUS decision in Obergefell v. Hodges that made same sex marriage legal was based on the 14th Amendment equal treatment clause.
Boebert proposes unconstitutional law, in that it would be passed with animus against a group of persons and it would treat that group unequally. The Court’s decision specifically identified such laws as being unconstitutional. Q.E.D.
Polaro
She’s said worse. I’m not sure what her real point is. Is she saying people should not be allowed irreversible gender conforming surgery before they are 21? If so, does she also mean no one under 21, should get cosmetic surgery of any type? If her concern is about children making bad decisions, she has to expand the scope, doesn’t she?
I have concerns that children make bad choices all the time and we should be careful about irreversible decisions, but being careful is not the same as banning. She’s just not smart enough to understand the issue or the ramifications of her words. Reality is she does not like trans people and should never be trusted on the topic.
inbama
No one can make you straight or gay. If you experiment and it’s a disaster, it shouldn’t take more than a talk or two with a competent therapist to get over it.
On the other hand, there’s no recovery for taking puberty blockers and having a micropenis at age 18. No happy way back for a teenage girl who’s had a double mastectomy at age 15.
Just because the powers that be have strung all these letters together, doesn’t mean we’re all the same. All of you applauding these medical interventions should show your good faith by going on Twitter or TikTok, find yourself a detransitioned gay man who had a penectomy as a teen, and take him on as a lover.
Jami Stardust
An underage person can’t get transition surgeries. Puberty blockers are only given for 2 years to tweens. So no there is no 18yr old on puberty blockers. You can’t make trans people cis either. Most trans kids know there is something wrong at a very young age. I was three. Quit spouting off this nonsense. It has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
Eternal.Cowboy
And nothing can keep inbama from making up things.
Bosch
@inbama
Yeah those things you describe are awful. However:
1) teenage boys don’t use puberty blockers to prevent genital development, because you need a fully developed penis for a vaginoplasty.
2) teenage girls don’t get mastectomies; the whole purpose of puberty blockers is to delay the growth of breast tissue until they are old enough to make an informed decision.
I get the feeling that you will discard this information, because you like the lies. The lies give you permission to judge trans people. You know you’re not going to bridge the gap between homophobes and gays by being transphobic, right?
Den
Based on empirical evidence (or as it is often called, real scientific study) there are no known long term effects of short term use of puberty blockers (short term being the usual span between puberty’s onset and 18, or resolution or gender issues). So that whole micro-penis thing is a lie. And gender reassignment surgery is not performed on individuals younger than 18 by surgeons who value their license and follow international ethical guidelines. And even after age 18 surgery is not performed until an individual has gone through a great deal of counseling, evaluation and less invasive physical interventions.
So you are either ignorantly passing on or willfully telling lies.
Your final paragraph is simply foolish and indicative of a poorly thought out agenda. I do not fully understand gender dysphoria as it is far removed from who I am, but I certainly recognize a questionable agenda when I see it
Jaquelope
FYI, there are some fully adult, cis males who have what you term a “micro-penis”, even after having reached puberty and reaching an age of majority who certainly know how to work with what they’ve been given.
From what I’ve read on the subject, and having known several trans people, I would suggest you do a bit of further research on the subject, other than from Faux News or other Far-Right sources.
LMG
Lauren Boebert came out as a human before she was 21 and that’s still debatable.
Also, she didn’t get that wide open shaped mouth from saying NO! Every time she does open her mouth I hope that all those who voted her into office in Colorado are left muscle sore from cringing so much.
Mack
No woman should be this stupid at 35 but here she is. Guess with her, MTB, and Maddie they’ll add Sarah Palin to their stupid group.
Jaquelope
I think the jury’s still out on the issue of her being fully human.
ohiogreg
Does this apply to heterosexuals too?
Josh in OR
Kids and progressive parents in Florida should leap at the chance to sue their shitty cishet teachers if said teachers describe their wives/husbands, talk about having had kids, have photos of their husbands/wives on display.
All are exposing children to sexuality at far too early an age, and anyone who has a problem with this is clearly a groomer. After all, something like 98% of all child molesters are cishet men who molest kids they know or are are related to.
If we’re going to pretend the Don’t say Gay bill is about ‘protecting children’ (which is utterly hateful bullshit, as we all know), then we need to apply it to EVERYONE. Hold the cishet bigots JUST as accountable, treat them JUST as subhuman as they want to treat queer kids and their families.
sbsfo
Josh,
Melikes ‘cishet’…
a lot.
Josh in OR
@sbsfo: Thanks! I can’t take credit for it, tho. One of my trans sisters uses it a lot and I just thought it was a great shorthand for an otherwise unwieldy term that I adopted it into my own lingo!
GayEGO
Well Lauren Boebert does not have all of the facts, there are several differences in states plus she does not know what she is talking about!
dadhc
Did Boebert wait until 21 to drink or have sex? I doubt it, yet she decides to dictate to us.
Jaquelope
Obviously, she didn’t wait until she was 21 to have sex, if she had her first child as a teenager.
Mister P
Puberty blockers are temporary and no one is advocating for gender confirmation surgery in minors.
James
SHE’S AN IDIOT. A STUPID BORING PATHETIC DUMB IDIOT. I HOPE SHE ROTS IN HELL WHERE SHE AND HER MISERABLE HUSBAND BELONG.
Josh in OR
Running for public office without a diploma should be illegal.
Running for office when you are/are married to a sex offender should be illegal.
Staying in office after helping foment an attempted insurrection should be illegal.
Spreading misinformation and hate should be illegal.
Being a congressperson without two brain cells to rub together in your giant, empty doll head should be illegal.
Tombear
It was an April fools joke, right?
Fname Optional Lname
We need not worry. She is clearly not well and I suspect her mid-life crisis has started early. She has no self reflection and will absolutely never identify her own behavior as being problematic. She will either self destruct or eventually cross the line to the extreme where the right is forced to turn their backs even though they are currently all applauding. She is a Trump puppet and that gets them all aroused. Anyone who “sticks it to the left” is a hero in their eyes even though they complain Biden is not “unifying the country” – you know — the way Trump did!
tomch52
And your husband bringing out his ?penis¿ to underage girls IS ILLEGAL!
SDR94103
scallop.
sbsfo
Dear Lauren (or, as Dan Akroyd might say, “Lauren, you ignorant sl _ t”):
It should be illegal for people as stupid as you (and your SEX-OFFENDER husband) to procreate before the age of 21 (or ever, quite frankly). (Or conversely, it should be required that you abstain from sex in perpetuity to prevent your DNA from being passed on to any other creature (let’s not go there… .)
It should be illegal for high school dropouts to hold public office. Period.
It should be illegal for strumpets like yourself who’ve conceived children out of wedlock to lecture anyone about anything concerning family values.
It should also be illegal for insurrectionists to hold public office.
Finally, you and MTG are compelling examples of why abortion should remain legal, As you might put it, “God never intended for the human body to survive without a brain”.
Jaquelope
It’s amazing, though, how many people seem to survive being brainless. Some even get elected to Congress, too.
Brian
Why would she pick 21 instead of 18? Her tweet suggests that someone who is an independent adult under the law would still not be allowed to… what, make the decision to change their name or sex on their driver’s license? Why should we treat 20-yr. olds as minors? Even from her ignorant, bigoted point of view, the proposal doesn’t fit into the way this country normally works.
kish
This is what happens when everyone gets a trophy. They grow up with so much confidence and they run for congress.
Den
Her confidence (as well as MTG and Madison’s) come from being dullards who cannot understand the breadth of what they do not know or understand. By contrast the confidence of people like Goetz and Trump from their cynical distaste for ethics and the understanding that they have decent ability to manipulate others.
Trump is not of that generation, but you can be sure none of those others came from households where “everyone gets a trophy”. And even if everyone gets a trophy, it takes a really stupid person to not understand that a participation medal and being a winner of a competition!
ericdf1
OMG, what is wrong with this woman? She seriously needs to seek professional help.
CNY1983
why exactly is she in washington dc? did the people who elected her WANT her to be this hateful and unproductive? what a bunch of idiots.
THAT Steve
I guess smaller government and less intereference in personal lives is only for them now.
fredk3
too bad she’s already polluted the gene pool. her demented idiocy will continue to spread like The Blob in a 50’s diner.
Georgeiv2
Thank God I’m not an American the embarrassment would be just too much to handle !
Invader7
I’m waiting for her husband to come out as gay. That would really flip her wig. She and the other hateful gop’ers are NeoNAZI FASCISTS.. VOTE Blue. Get these creatures out of office. And hopefully Il Deuce Trump dies before 2024 !!
bambamboom777
I am so tired of these loony Republicans. Every time they make homophobic, racist and othering type statements in order to anger their base into voting it sets off a chain of events that lead to people getting bullied, physically assaulted, or killed. Words like this have real world effect. The people don’t care because they’re aimed at people they view as expendable. This is what the Republican Party has become all about. They don’t stand for anything else.
hansniemeijer
I think basically she doesn’t want people to be non-str8. of any age