Not simply serving
Uh oh uh oh someone referred to a man as Mr.
A House subcommittee hearing abruptly ended on Tuesday after a Republican lawmaker was confronted over misgendering Rep. Sarah McBride, a Democrat from Delaware and the first openly transgender member of Congress.
In other words the first man playacting being a woman in Congress. Congress shouldn’t be a stage for playacting.
McBride, a transgender woman, had been the subject of attacks from Republicans since starting her term in January. She was previously misgendered by other members, including Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., and Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C.
There’s no such thing as “misgendering.” There is a misogynist thing where men taunt other men for being “pussies” and “cunts” and similar, but referring to a man as a man is not mis-anything. [Pedantic note: the “mis” in “misgender” is not the same word as the “mis” in “misogyny.”]
McBride later wrote on X that “No matter how I’m treated by some colleagues, nothing diminishes my awe and gratitude at getting to represent Delaware in Congress.”
“It is truly the honor and privilege of a lifetime. I simply want to serve and to try to make this world a better place,” she wrote.
Not really. If that were true he wouldn’t be doing the narcissistic “pay close attention to my magic gender” thing. He wouldn’t because it’s a distraction, it’s a waste of time, it’s pointless, it does nothing to make the world a better place.
First openly transgender carries the tacit suggestion that there has been at least one other trans in Congress who ‘passed’ so perfectly that there was no need to declare it.
Though I refuse to respect his chosen pronouns and don’t think he belongs in the women’s toilets…These guys are all giant petty assholes… All of them.
Not necessarily. It could refer to “closeted trans” people, such as men who believe themselves to be women but who don’t pretend to be women in any public settings.
Related, I don’t like that Trump and his ilk are imposing rules (that may be illegal) targeting genderist weirdos even if I agree with the substance, but booting trans service members is unconscionable. If you want to be a freak and also are willing to take a bullet for your country, well, it’s more than almost his entire cabinet would be willing to do. It’s shameful and disgusting.
It’s rather typical that the most incensed isn’t even the one who was “misgendered”.
It’s also rather typical that the immediate tactic is a question-begging appeal to decency, as though demanding that everyone play along with and cater to one’s fetishistic delusions isn’t per se a violation of decency.
Mister McBride lives hale and hearty, a strapping young man, even though he has the occasional brush with reality and has been told to stay out of the women’s restrooms in the building. If he can survive hearing reality spoken AND survive not airing out his issues in women’s spaces, then we can expect the same from his brethren. Hold Mr. McBride up as an example of how these men do not need the things they claim are life and death to them.
@Southwest #6
That’s the one sense in which his being a “trans woman” does make the world a better place. He can dress how he wants and get on with his work. He can dress how he wants, use the men’s toilets, and get on with his work. He can dress how he wants, make zero fuss about being called “Mr. McBride,” or “the gentleman from Delaware,” and get on with his work. That will simply show that there is more than one way of being a man, and that it’s perfectly all right for men to break gender norms.
I’m gonna be contrarian (gasp! shock! horror!) and say that we ought to moderate the statement to “it’s perfectly all right for men to break some gender norms.” After all, prohibitions on men’s entering women’s spaces are gender norms.