It is bizarre what the party of small government and individual rights is passing or attempting to pass now.
North Dakota rejected (39 to 8) a bill that would have fined anyone using a pronoun for themselves or another not in line with their birth gender $1500. A real WTF bill apparently. They were concerned it would harm those who didn’t identify as transgender.
As more than a dozen states consider passing anti-transgender legislation this year, North Dakota lawmakers rejected a bill Friday that would have made people pay $1,500 each time they refer to themselves or others with gender pronouns different from t...
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Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee had said they agreed with the bill’s purpose, but that it was poorly written and would be difficult to enforce. It would also have harmed people who do not identify as transgender and would possibly violate First Amendment rights, they said.
Rahrich, who testified against the bill, said he lived in North Dakota until he was 25 but moved away in 2016 after “a series of escalating brushes” with anti-LGBTQ violence.
“I could wax poetic about the rolling prairie, or how much I miss the enormity of the sky,” he said about North Dakota. “But what I can’t do is compel you to see me as a human being.”
But there are more in the pipeline.
The right needs a minority scapegoat to roil the base. Muslims are passé, Antifa’s not doing much, Commies are everywhere but know seems to be able to define them. Transgender people fit the bill, and have very little political power. There is also a strong element of cruelty here.
Supporters of the proposals say they protect children from left-wing ideology. LGBTQ advocates say the wave of anti-transgender legislation is bigoted and harmful.
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After Clemens left the committee room, Christina Feldmann confronted him, telling the lawmaker about her daughter, Haley, a transgender woman who died by suicide in 2021.
Feldmann of Beach, North Dakota, told Clemens that using Haley’s personal pronouns was "the simplest way to validate her.”
“If she were to have gone to a school that referred to her as he/him, we would have lost her much sooner,” Feldmann said to Clemens. “Your bill will kill children. It’s important that you be aware of that.”
Clemens repeatedly referred to Haley as “your son” when speaking to Feldmann. The lawmaker also asked the mother if she took Haley to “counseling or help to bring her back to thinking that she was a boy.”
North Dakota wants to pass a bill stating that conversion therapy for lgbtq people is not an ethical violation.
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