'Can men get pregnant?' Video shows tense exchange at Senate hearing about abortion.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/16/josh-hawley-senate-hearing-abortion-pills-men-pregnant/88198354007/
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DomeGuy@lemmy.world · 86 pts · 217d
Hey, let me try re-writing that headline:
"Republican senator interjects transphobia into a hearing about banning abortion ; OBGYN refuses to misgender her trans masculine patients."
Men can absolutely get pregnant. Because trans men can get pregnant, and trans men are at least as much men as bigoted transphobia like Hawley.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 35 pts · 217d
People really need to start treating these people like they’re fucking ignorant jackasses for bringing it up in the first place. Oh, you need it explained to you that only transgender men can get pregnant, not cisgender men? Okay, we can sit here and explain to your utterly mushy peas for brains ass that some transgender men still have the parts they were born with and still need gynecological care.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 217d
Also couldn't someone be considered "a man" but have a uterus. How hard would it have been for her to say that?
It's not like people who have had hysterectomys are suddenly men are they?
Swordinferno@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 217d
Don't fall for this man's propaganda! Keep cumming in his gay ass!
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 217d
Oh, FFS, why are these assholes so obsessed with trans?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 217d
They're wrestling with their own homophobia and are worried that they might see a woman they think is hot, but has a penis and that would make them gay (in their mind).
fodor@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 217d
Same reason they worried about Monica Lewinsky.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 217d
Yeah, they spent most of the decade trying to get Bill and/or Hillary on something and ended up with...a stain on a dress.
As the Clintons have aged and mostly left the stage, that "issue" has mostly lost its effectiveness. I suspect the trans thing will be something that animates them for quite some time. Though with all the white hot rage they have over BLM, Me Too, and losing on the gay marriage thing, I wonder if they won't rely more on the golden oldies...
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 217d
They were upset they weren't getting head?
echo@lemmings.world · 13 pts · 217d
Hawley is a fucking moron.
Soulphite@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 216d
He's exactly the representation of all the red parts that Missouri has to offer all wrapped up in a stupid suit. Source: am from misery in the only tiny blue district we have left.
madcaesar@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 216d
Isn't Hawley that Nazi looking motherfucker that cheered on Trump on Jan 6th?
kylie_kraft@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 216d
drmoose@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 217d
This dude's entire persona is to rage bait conservative talk points
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 8 pts · 217d
Ignore that feeling in your gut, America. That's probably just patriotic pride in your magnificent "democratic" representatives. Or diarrhea. One of those, probably.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 216d
Has he not seen the documentary called Junior wherea a buff male gave birth?
spongebue@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 216d
Hawley did the same thing a few years ago with someone else using the term "people capable of pregnancy"... I'd look up the video but I don't really want to expose myself to that fuckface more than necessary right now