Less than 24 hours after exiting the U.S. House of Representatives, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard immediately hit Fox News to trash the House’s recent change on gendered language, claiming it denies “the very biological existence of women.”
Under the new rules, passed by the House yesterday, gendered words like mother, father, brother, and sister will no longer be used to “honor all gender identities by changing pronouns and familial relationships in the House rules to be gender neutral.”
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Speaking to admitted gay basher Tucker Carlson, Gabbard argued that the new rules don’t promote diversity and inclusivity.
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“It absolutely does the very opposite of that,” she said. “It’s the height of hypocrisy for people who claim to be the champions of rights for women to deny the very biological existence of women.”
That sounds like some J.K. Rowling bullsh*t right there.
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The failed presidential candidate went on to argue that the new rule demonstrates just how out of touch lawmakers are with reality.
“Their first act as this new Congress could have been to make sure elderly Americans are able to get the COVID vaccine now alongside front-line health care workers,” she griped. “Instead of doing something that could actually help save people’s lives, they are choosing instead to say ‘You can’t say mother or father.'”
Gabbard went on to say that she believes there’s a “biological distinction” between men and women and that the new rule “defies basic common sense” and “basic established science.”
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Roy Ajax
She’s right. This gender neutral language is nonsense that benefits less than 1% of the population. Just ridiculous.
phillycap
So what you are saying is because it doesn’t affect the majority, then the minority are irrelevant? Is that how you think civil rights should be structured? The permission of the majority. And how personally does the use of these gender neutral pronouns harm you? You are a member of a minority that has had to claw and scratch and protest its way into mainstream society. And now because you have yours, you want to cut the rungs of the ladder to a smaller minority than you are.
Roy Ajax
phillycap
we’re removing genders to appease 0.3% of the population, how is that make sense? Plus there is no proof that there even such a thing as non-binary, it’s all about feelings.
Cam
What a shock, the right wing troll account that ALWAYS defends bigots attacking LGBTQ people, and always attacks the victims is here defending it again.
Do you ever look at your posts and just think “Wow, I’m boring and predictable”?
AxelDC
Good riddance to right-wing trash. She sullied the Democratic Party with her presence.
Creamsicle
Thankfully, not many people took her candidacy seriously and she was in the first round of primary candidates to be filtered out of national debates.
Whatever. She got off pretty easy for a Manchurian candidate. I wonder if she’ll come into ownership of some sweet off-shore LLCs soon.
ciasteczek
Tulsie is 100% right. Congress could focus on things that are really important, insted they decided to fight agains the idea of mothers and fathers. And then every election you guys are supprised that Republicans are winning.
phillycap
Once again, the lame idiocy that somehow Congress cannot do both things at the same time.
ciasteczek
Once again, the idea of forbidding using words like father or mother is ridiculous.
Cam
Oh look, the right wing troll account introducing a new name now that Roy Ajax is so worn out.
By the way, which elections exactly are Republicans winning? The Presidency? The Georgia Senate Race?
ciasteczek
Oh darling, im not republican, im just european who loves to read about you ridiculous woke fights.
wooly101
I never thought left wing lunacy would hit congress. Gee here I thought Canada was bad.
MacAdvisor
No, both you and Gabbard are wrong, though she should at least know better. There is an order to the first day to set up the new session of Congress. New members are certified and sworn in. The rules under which the House is to operate are passed. Those rules now require legislation to use gender neutral language. This is just good practice when legislating. Gender neutral laws help us all and make the application of the law clear. Designating your mother as your parent doesn’t change her gender, it simply makes clear her gender is irrelevant to the law.
Josh447
This article is only half the story. Google to get the full picture.
Thank God congress didn’t bring the they/them pronoun malarkey into the picture.
GlobeTrotter
I’m afraid she’s absolutely right on this one. This woke madness is getting out of hand. According to a flyer on “gender etiquette” I read a few days ago, when meeting someone for the first time, we’re now always supposed to first ask for their pronouns and thereafter address them as such. The flyer included no less than 20 different pronouns, the BBC site on gender equality lists over a hundred!
So you’re no longer supposed to say mother, father, sister or brother (they’re now considered offensive), you’re supposed to ask a person’s pronouns when you first meet, and you’re now expected to remember each individual’s personal pronouns from a list of over a hundred. So if you happen to have 450 friends and acquaintances, as I do on Facebook, you’ll now need to carry around a laptop with a specialized database dedicated to storing the various pronouns in all their permutations of all the people you know.
But wait, here comes the best part! According to the flyer, each person reserves the right to CHANGE their pronoun at will, since gender identity is a fluid concept, meaning some people’s gender is in a state of constant flux. The flyer was careful to add, that the gender pronouns it listed was by no means exhaustive, as new genders are being constantly discovered…
So you might go to bed identifying as the gender pronoun “xe”, but wake up the next day identifying as the gender pronoun “they”.
People, I kid you not!
Creamsicle
If they’re your friends, then they’ll probably be as dismissive of gender identity as you are. I think you’ll be fine.
Cam
Hmmm, a brand new account CLAIMING to have read a “Flyer”.
Funny, that’s the same B.S. that Megyn Kelly lied about, claiming it was an official thing from her kids school, which it wasn’t.
We get it, the Tulsi trolls are on here. But please try a little harder.
GlobeTrotter
Ahm, I have no idea who or what you’re talking about. I’ve been using the nickname GlobeTrotter for at least 8 or 9 years now on this and several other internet forums.
This is the flyer I was referring to:
https www umass edu/stonewall/sites/default/files/pronouns_intro.pdf
And this is the list of pronouns (redirected from a BBC article) that I was talking about:
https askanonbinary tumblr com/general
p.s. You’ll have to reconstruct the links since Queerty doesn’t seem to allow you to write comments containing http code.
Fahd
I’m not a big fan of our worst Secretary of State ever, but I thank Hilary Clinton for warning us about Gabbard; she does seem to have some connection to Putin that is at least not patriotic.
Hard to believe this “admitted gay basher” who disavowed her homophobic past during her brief candidacy for the presidency is now focused on this. With her history, I’d recommend to her to just jump in the lake- who cares what she thinks about any issues related either to LGBTQ issues or the English language?
Hawaii and the nation deserve better than this sort of Russian plant in our Congress and our political life. Next year in Moscow with former Congressman Rohrbacher?
I think this is a good time to invoke the expression “bye Felicia!”. I hope I have applied it correctly.
Creamsicle
Tulsi Gabbard has always been very at home among the maga cultists.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
I stand with her on the truths she spoke of. This gender identity has gotten out of hand and we all know it. You are what you are born as and will remain that wait till the day you pass away.
SPEEDOSWIMMER
tulsi = KKKhunt.
Openminded
I’d never purposefully insult or attempt to hurt a trans or fluid person’s feelings but I really have problems with the pronoun demands. It’s bad enough to be corrected by women who are offended when you address them as Miss instead of Mrs.. I really have a hard time reading or using the “they” and “them” pronouns and translating that to mean one person. I’d really hate to see the future English textbooks and bless the teachers who are going to have to attempt to make all the past rules of English work with these new expectations.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Openminded, I cant agree more with your summation of the present. I grew up in the “old” school. Back in my day they were referred to as drag queens and that was the end of it. Its not that I don’t understand their problem but where I draw the line in the sand is at the “demands” being made. I know my comment sounds harsh but I mean what I say. Its like being at a fence. On one side there’s the male and on the other the female but the way these rants and demands about how they insist on being addressed point to another sex being created and that is simply biologically impossible no matter the surgery. Its sad the truth hurts people but we are dealing with a situation where they do not realize themselves what side of the fence they are on as far as being gay goes and its like we are being used to further an agenda that end the end based on what they are saying will not include us, those whom are happy with the way things presently are. I hope that made sense.
IWantAFullBeard
So you can’t say mother or father but can you still say motherf*cker?
HenryCameron
It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
Prax07
Gender neutral Anything is bullshit. Male/female, him/her, any of that they/them/zee/pee/poop/moop crap is stupid.
Josh447
This act of congress is only referring to mother father etc in changing phrases in text. Using those words are fine in general. Don’t depend on this article to make your comments, it’s incomplete reporting.
They/them and other misguided pronoun references, are not part of this deal.
iminheatlikeacat
Why are my comments always awaiting moderation? Let me try again with certain words that may trigger off the censors removed:
Doesn’t it form a wider part of discussion though? There was outcry here when a woman, having sworn to tell the truth in court, was forced to refer to her word that rhymes with tapist as female and use female pronouns when referring to his word that rhymes with fenis and threatened with losing the case and getting fined and possibly jailed if she didn’t do it. People are also losing their jobs, their social media standings and friends if they don’t. I would very much argue that there is a creeping ongoing push that is trying to make it so it’s *not* fine to use these words in general. Media outlets are constantly reporting on violent, horrific crimes perpetuated by women and it’s only accompanied photographs that informs the reader that it wasn’t a woman that committed the crime.
Some people are genuinely fine with this, so it doesn’t really make a difference or apply to them, but to the others, don’t champion this but then moan when women are on Grindr, or entering male-only spaces, or get called a bigot if you won’t consider dating a woman presenting as a man who has female genitalia as this is all interlinked. It’s been happening to lesbians rapidly in the last half of the last decade. It’s starting to happen to us now.
b2rocketfan
It’s always interesting how people who don’t do anything of sour when they are in Congress suddenly are so concerned about the “welfare of the people” when they are out of congress. She needs to go away.
Cam
Tulsi has ALWAYS been a right wing plant. The only reason she backed off is because, after the Jill Stein thing, people caught on to her schtick too fast for her to do any damage.
Polaro
I really can’t figure out from the article what was actually changed. Gender neutral makes sense in documents. Using person versus man, for example. I’m no fan of non-binary, which creates a language nightmare in documents that need to be crystal clear. Which is it? Regardless, if Gabbard is for it, I’m probably against it.