Why Are Texas Lawmakers Obsessed With What's In Your Pants? [View all]

Republican lawmakers cry actual tears over genitals instead of protecting women.

https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/why-are-texas-lawmakers-obsessed


In Texas, where the real threats to women’s safety, like domestic violence, inadequate healthcare, and wage inequality, go largely unaddressed, Republican lawmakers have chosen instead to police gender identity. HB229, dubbed the “Women’s Bill of Rights,” is nothing more than a transparent attempt to erase transgender and non-binary Texans under the guise of “protecting women.”

As a feminist, I can tell you it isn’t about protecting women. It’s about controlling and dehumanizing people who don’t fit their rigid, outdated definition of gender.

The gender police.
Ellen Troxclair (R-HD19), the bill’s author, insists that HB229 must “protect women” by clearly defining what a woman is. According to her, this is essential because without a definition, women’s rights are supposedly at risk. Never mind the fact that defining women solely by their reproductive capacity is a slap in the face to anyone who can’t or doesn’t have children, whether by choice or circumstance. Never mind that it erases intersex people and ignores the reality that gender identity is more complex than anatomy.