Transphobic (wanna say piece of shit here but cant) Sen Josh Hawley

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Transphobic (wanna say piece of shit here but cant) Sen Josh Hawley

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Josh Hawley accused of transphobic line of questioning during sharp exchange with law professor

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/12/politics ... rce=twCNNp

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri was accused by a law professor of engaging in a line of transphobic questioning during a hearing Tuesday on the legal consequences of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade.

Following the Supreme Court’s ruling last month, some progressives have increasingly used the term “pregnant people” – as opposed to “women” – to refer to those whose right to abortion they seek to protect, in an effort to recognize that transgender men and non-binary people are also affected by the court’s decision, which overturned the 1973 landmark ruling that had made access to abortion a federal constitutional right.

“You refer to ‘people with a capacity for pregnancy.’ Would that be women?” Hawley asked Khiara Bridges, a law professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, during the sharp exchange at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
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” You refer to ‘people with a capacity for pregnancy.’ Would that be women?” Hawley asked Khiara Bridges, a law professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, during the sharp exchange at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
Somebody ask these conservative perverts if they consider 10 and 15 year olds to be “women.” The answer is clearly “yes.”

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“Pregnant people” and “people with the capacity for pregnancy” doesn’t just refer to trans people, it refers to many trans men, cis women, gender non-binary and nonconforming, and some cis girls.

These same bigots throw the same fits around language every time a group out from under their control determines our own terms for our own selves. It’s just another extension of the old bellyache, “I just don’t know what these people call themselves anymore!!” dating back to the g.d. 1920s.

They did the same thing with Ms., and the word “gay,” itself, in the 1960’s-70’s.

Perverts like Josh Hawley are just mad we don’t let them label us “sodomites” and “niggers” without an ass-kicking.
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Again, why do they use up energy caring what someone uses to identify themselves as. Unless you are an immature busybody, why else?
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Libertas wrote: Tue Jul 12, 2022 8:24 pm Again, why do they use up energy caring what someone uses to identify themselves as. Unless you are an immature busybody, why else?
Miserable control freaks whose own lives are out of control? Can’t stand to see anyone else thriving? That’s my experience of these bigots.
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