Congress Finally Holds Hearing on Guns...Just Kidding, on Trans Girls in Sports

[Nevilledog]

https://jezebel.com/congress-finally-holds-hearing-on-guns-just-kidding-on-1850353699

The House of Representatives started debate on a bill Wednesday to address the number-one threat to kids, the 400 million gu—oh, sorry, the existence of trans people. Yes, in the days following horrific stories of people shooting kids who mistakenly stepped onto their property or opened the wrong car door, and weeks after a mass shooting at Tennessee elementary school, Republicans sought it fit to take action on...banning transgender girls from playing sports at K-12 schools and public universities nationwide if those schools receive federal funds.

The discussion about HR 734—the incorrectly named “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023"—was a mixture of vile misgendering and deadnaming from Republicans and righteous indignation from Democrats. If you took a shot every time a conservative said “biological males,” you would’ve ended up in the ER.

Rep. John Rose (R-Tenn.), who represents parts of Nashville—home to the recent mass school shooting—said he was proud to be taking action on a danger facing women students at the University of Tennessee: “hav[ing] to compete against biological males. Whether it’s for scholarships or national championships, biological males ought to compete against biological males.” (Ope, take three drinks!)

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), who led a previous committee hearing on the bill, had the gall to claim that the proposal “doesn’t discriminate against anyone” and that her party was being unfairly smeared. “Republicans—contrary to what our colleagues have said and accused us of—Republicans love all God’s children, male and female, born and unborn. Do not question our commitment to fairness, to life, or to treating people equally. We hate no one.” Sure thing, that’s why you want to rip federal funding from schools that allow trans kids to play sports.

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[erronis]

1. There must be a one-page handout to new (r)epuglicons to tell them how to lie

Or is this just a requirement to become a (r)epuglicon - a inbred ability to spout falsehoods and deflect questions?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. Gotta give them a tiny bit of credit ... they've come up with a vexxing question for our worldview

And they're playing it for all it's worth, in order to divide us.

It's frustrating because I really don't know which side is truly the right one to come down on.

I mean, obviously this top-down bullshit of actually defunding schools over this is totally fucked, and they are doing their typical gaslighting, but at the heart of the matter ... intellectually, it involves a pretty interesting conundrum.