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Thursday, March 30th, 2023

House Republicans Pass First National Bill Targeting Transgender Youth

Author:     Zane McNeill
Source:     truthout
Publication Date:     March 27, 2023
 Link: House Republicans Pass First National Bill Targeting Transgender Youth
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One of the defining features of MAGAt world is its severe sexual dysfunctionality. MAGAts are obsessed in a very sick way with the LGBTQ community. I think a large part of this has to do with gender equality, which is creating a society where White men are not by default the controllers and leaders. Indeed, what is the Incel movement, but angry aggrieved men, the vast majority of whom are White men, who can't get laid, because they are so off-putting no woman will give them, or be compelled to give them, the time of day and they resent it. 

MAGAt Republican Lauren Boebert walks to the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol Building
Credit: Nathan Howard / Getty

On Friday, House Republicans passed the so-called “Parents Bill of Rights Act,” which would force educators to misgender trans students and out them to their parents.

The bill is the first federal legislation that targets transgender youth and is the most recent push by Republicans to advance a right-wing education agenda in a countrywide legislative session that has targeted trans children.

HR 5 — which Democrats have dubbed the “Politics Over Parents Act” — was introduced by Republican Rep. Julia Letlow. The amendments that would force educators to out trans children were proposed by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R), and would require schools to notify parents if their child is using restrooms that don’t align with the sex they were assigned at birth.

House members voted 213-208 for passage of the bill, with all Democrats and five Republicans voting against the legislation.

“The backers of this bill claim to be advancing it on behalf of parents, but when you actually listen to what parents […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 4:42 am

    LGBTQ people have their own free will just like the rest of us, and should have the same rights, too.