Pro-Transgender Democrats Are the Real ‘Science Deniers’
Are they actually going to vote on something real?
Has anyone noticed that climate change alarmist Democrats no longer refer to those who don’t buy into their baseless warnings of impending eco-apocalypse as “science deniers”?
That isn’t only because their six decades of predictions of environmental doom consistently have failed to come to pass. It’s also because they themselves have become the actual science deniers.
That epithet can now be turned against Democrats because of their adamant denial of the biological science of chromosomes—XX (female) and XY (male)—in the battle over so-called transgender rights. Dismissing chromosome science as “sex assigned at birth” doesn’t change that.
The latest example of Democrats’ science denial appeared Feb. 18, when the Kansas House of Representatives voted 87-37 in favor of SB 244, which defines “gender” as biological sex, bans men and boys from using women’s and girls’ restrooms and locker rooms, and mandates accurate sex-based identification on licenses and birth certificates in the state.
Science—and common sense—notwithstanding, every Democrat in the Kansas House voted against SB 244, and the Feb. 13 veto by Gov. Laura Kelly, a liberal Democrat, was easily and rightly overridden. (Nearly three years earlier, in April 2023, state lawmakers overrode Ms. Kelly’s veto of a state law banning faux females from competing in girls’ and women’s athletics.)
“This poorly drafted bill will have numerous and significant consequences far beyond the intent to limit the right for trans people to use the appropriate bathroom,” the governor said in her latest laughable veto message. (To the contrary, the new state law will compel gender-confused people to use the appropriate bathroom—the one based on biology.)
According to Kelly, those other supposedly “significant consequences” of SB 244 include:
“If your grandfather is in a nursing home in a shared room, as a granddaughter, you would not be able to visit him.
“If your wife is in a shared hospital room, as a husband, you would not be able to visit her.
“If your sister is living in a dorm at [Kansas State University], as a brother, you would not be able to visit her in her room.”
Nursing home and hospital rooms have one-at-a-time restrooms, and college dormitories have visitor bathrooms, so those are all risible red herrings.
“I believe the Legislature should stay out of the business of telling Kansans how to go to the bathroom,” Kelly concluded, “and instead stay focused on how to make life more affordable for Kansans.”
In the governor’s telling, Kansas lawmakers can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. The two issues are neither mutually exclusive nor a zero-sum game, so that too is patent nonsense.
“This bill protects girls and women, the ones feminists used to claim to stand for,” said state Rep. Carolyn Caiharr, a Republican.
“Used to” is the operative term there, insofar as most Democrats—including, inexplicably, Democratic women—now prioritize the “rights” of the estimated 0.003% (three one-thousandths of 1%) of the population who “identify” as transgender ahead of those of the 51% of the population who identify as (real) girls and women.
“Maybe this is a culture war bill,” state Sen. Cindy …
Are they actually going to vote on something real?
Has anyone noticed that climate change alarmist Democrats no longer refer to those who don’t buy into their baseless warnings of impending eco-apocalypse as “science deniers”?
That isn’t only because their six decades of predictions of environmental doom consistently have failed to come to pass. It’s also because they themselves have become the actual science deniers.
That epithet can now be turned against Democrats because of their adamant denial of the biological science of chromosomes—XX (female) and XY (male)—in the battle over so-called transgender rights. Dismissing chromosome science as “sex assigned at birth” doesn’t change that.
The latest example of Democrats’ science denial appeared Feb. 18, when the Kansas House of Representatives voted 87-37 in favor of SB 244, which defines “gender” as biological sex, bans men and boys from using women’s and girls’ restrooms and locker rooms, and mandates accurate sex-based identification on licenses and birth certificates in the state.
Science—and common sense—notwithstanding, every Democrat in the Kansas House voted against SB 244, and the Feb. 13 veto by Gov. Laura Kelly, a liberal Democrat, was easily and rightly overridden. (Nearly three years earlier, in April 2023, state lawmakers overrode Ms. Kelly’s veto of a state law banning faux females from competing in girls’ and women’s athletics.)
“This poorly drafted bill will have numerous and significant consequences far beyond the intent to limit the right for trans people to use the appropriate bathroom,” the governor said in her latest laughable veto message. (To the contrary, the new state law will compel gender-confused people to use the appropriate bathroom—the one based on biology.)
According to Kelly, those other supposedly “significant consequences” of SB 244 include:
“If your grandfather is in a nursing home in a shared room, as a granddaughter, you would not be able to visit him.
“If your wife is in a shared hospital room, as a husband, you would not be able to visit her.
“If your sister is living in a dorm at [Kansas State University], as a brother, you would not be able to visit her in her room.”
Nursing home and hospital rooms have one-at-a-time restrooms, and college dormitories have visitor bathrooms, so those are all risible red herrings.
“I believe the Legislature should stay out of the business of telling Kansans how to go to the bathroom,” Kelly concluded, “and instead stay focused on how to make life more affordable for Kansans.”
In the governor’s telling, Kansas lawmakers can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. The two issues are neither mutually exclusive nor a zero-sum game, so that too is patent nonsense.
“This bill protects girls and women, the ones feminists used to claim to stand for,” said state Rep. Carolyn Caiharr, a Republican.
“Used to” is the operative term there, insofar as most Democrats—including, inexplicably, Democratic women—now prioritize the “rights” of the estimated 0.003% (three one-thousandths of 1%) of the population who “identify” as transgender ahead of those of the 51% of the population who identify as (real) girls and women.
“Maybe this is a culture war bill,” state Sen. Cindy …
Pro-Transgender Democrats Are the Real ‘Science Deniers’
Are they actually going to vote on something real?
Has anyone noticed that climate change alarmist Democrats no longer refer to those who don’t buy into their baseless warnings of impending eco-apocalypse as “science deniers”?
That isn’t only because their six decades of predictions of environmental doom consistently have failed to come to pass. It’s also because they themselves have become the actual science deniers.
That epithet can now be turned against Democrats because of their adamant denial of the biological science of chromosomes—XX (female) and XY (male)—in the battle over so-called transgender rights. Dismissing chromosome science as “sex assigned at birth” doesn’t change that.
The latest example of Democrats’ science denial appeared Feb. 18, when the Kansas House of Representatives voted 87-37 in favor of SB 244, which defines “gender” as biological sex, bans men and boys from using women’s and girls’ restrooms and locker rooms, and mandates accurate sex-based identification on licenses and birth certificates in the state.
Science—and common sense—notwithstanding, every Democrat in the Kansas House voted against SB 244, and the Feb. 13 veto by Gov. Laura Kelly, a liberal Democrat, was easily and rightly overridden. (Nearly three years earlier, in April 2023, state lawmakers overrode Ms. Kelly’s veto of a state law banning faux females from competing in girls’ and women’s athletics.)
“This poorly drafted bill will have numerous and significant consequences far beyond the intent to limit the right for trans people to use the appropriate bathroom,” the governor said in her latest laughable veto message. (To the contrary, the new state law will compel gender-confused people to use the appropriate bathroom—the one based on biology.)
According to Kelly, those other supposedly “significant consequences” of SB 244 include:
“If your grandfather is in a nursing home in a shared room, as a granddaughter, you would not be able to visit him.
“If your wife is in a shared hospital room, as a husband, you would not be able to visit her.
“If your sister is living in a dorm at [Kansas State University], as a brother, you would not be able to visit her in her room.”
Nursing home and hospital rooms have one-at-a-time restrooms, and college dormitories have visitor bathrooms, so those are all risible red herrings.
“I believe the Legislature should stay out of the business of telling Kansans how to go to the bathroom,” Kelly concluded, “and instead stay focused on how to make life more affordable for Kansans.”
In the governor’s telling, Kansas lawmakers can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. The two issues are neither mutually exclusive nor a zero-sum game, so that too is patent nonsense.
“This bill protects girls and women, the ones feminists used to claim to stand for,” said state Rep. Carolyn Caiharr, a Republican.
“Used to” is the operative term there, insofar as most Democrats—including, inexplicably, Democratic women—now prioritize the “rights” of the estimated 0.003% (three one-thousandths of 1%) of the population who “identify” as transgender ahead of those of the 51% of the population who identify as (real) girls and women.
“Maybe this is a culture war bill,” state Sen. Cindy …
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