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DNC panel actually doesn’t know whether men can have abortions?
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
The Atlantic and Refinery29 hosted a panel discussion entitled “Young Women Rising: America’s Next Top Voter?” during the Democratic National Convention, Tuesday evening. Following a 30-minute conversation on “intersectionality” and millennial feminism, a reporter asked the panel for its thoughts on reproductive rights and women’s health issues for men who ascribe to a female gender identity. Ayanna Pressley, a Boston city councilor at-large, said the issue of men who identify as women getting abortions is all about “elevated consciousness.”
I think by “elevated consciousness” she means “stultified intellect.”
When asked if trans women are “being denied their reproductive rights” Pressley was stumped.
“You got me on that one.”
Indeed.
Alex Wagner, a senior editor for the Atlantic who moderated the discussion, then deflected the conversation.
“Reproductive rights affect men and women, right?” she said. “Making a baby naturally takes two things. That’s just what I hear.”
Alex may have just cost herself a career. I mean, what a bigot.
I guess her defense is her qualifying sentence. She has heard others say that it takes “two things” (presumably an actual male and actual female) to make a baby. SHE doesn’t believe that, of course…she’s “just” heard that from transphobes. Nothing to do with biology. Or, better, “biology.”
Thanks @jamielockett in the comments for reminding me of this classic.
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No, the original post mentions trans women (MtF transsexuals) and men who identify as women. It’s exactly as silly as championing Lorreta’s right to have babies in that Life of Brian clip.
Great, so it’s precisely as stupid a concept as I first thought. The transsexual…movement? concept? leads to such a blatant denial of objective reality that I can’t imagine the pretzel shapes they’re twisting their brains into.
I always thought I was a lesbian trapped in a straight male’s body. I considered transitioning, but then I realized it would be impractical. If I were to have female naughty bits I’d never get out of the shower.
Yes, jumping out a window is a good one. I think I used that one on Ricochet last month. “So if I jump out the window, I’ll hit the ground at 90 mph and die, if you jump out the same window, you’ll hit the ground at 5 mph and live, and if Bob jumps out the window he’ll instantly be teleported to a bus stop in Reyjiavik. Is that what you mean by true for them?”
Insurance company probably will reject a bill for a pap smear on a “man”. Just saying.
I remember when that was a joke that Rush would say.
Now the jokes on us.