Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced a bill this week to legally erase transgender people, entitled the “Defining Male and Female Act of 2024.” He claimed that the bill will stop what he called the Biden administration’s attempt to “replace biological sex with dangerous radical gender ideology.”
The bill is a long list of terms and definitions, where words like “father” and “girl” are defined with the words “male” and “female.” Those two words are then defined as “an individual who naturally has, had, will have, or would have, but for a congenital anomaly or intentional or unintentional disruption, the reproductive system that at some point produces, transports and utilizes [sperm or eggs for male or female, respectively] for fertilization.”
Reminds me of Utah ‘defining’ Pluto as a planet when it ‘passes over’ their state. Utterly silly.
What concerns me, though, is whether they would try to use this as a stepping stone toward defining legal identification of trans people’s correct gender as fraud. It seems unlikely to have an impact in states where trans folks actually have legal protections, but I could see it being used against us in states where we don’t.
Step 1: make drag illegal
Step 2: make trans people legally not exist
Consequence: you can legally throw trans people in prison for “drag” just for presenting as their gender