While debating H.R. 1028, the "Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act" in the House Judiciary Committee on 3 February, Wyoming Republican Representative Harriet Hageman declared the term cisgender to be a "made-up word".
"Cisgender is a made-up word. That means nothing," Hageman said. "Do not call me cisgender. I am a woman."
Rep. Hageman went on the declare that the term "epitomises the Left's ongoing effort to rewrite the English language in order to change the debate and destroy civil order".
29 Comments
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca · 49 pts · 220d
Yeah, just like all other words. That's how language works.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 220d
Shhhhhhh!! No facts please! You'll scare it!
GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 220d
The rules were you guys weren't gonna fact check
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone · 33 pts · 220d
The reason why they want to stop people using the word cisgender is because they want to stop transgender people talking about themselves on an equal plane with their cisgender counterparts.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 220d
"normal"
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 220d
Fuck that. Fuck this "normal" bullshit that places transgender people as lesser. I am not lesser. I'm not greater. This is the kind of thing I'm talking about.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 219d
I agree. That is why they fight it so hard. Everything else needs to be the "other." Not just trans.
vpol@feddit.uk · 22 pts · 220d
I’m afraid of the lady in the image.
Dragonfruit@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 220d
She really does look like a movie villain
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 220d
She's going to suck the life force out of you if you get too close.
Teknevra@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 220d
peetabix@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 220d
Every word is made up.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 220d
Republican said let's talk about pointless nonsense while videos of other Republicans raping kids circulate. Goddamn. Fuck you at this point. Honestly, fuck dems too. I don't even know what to do. Monsters...
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 220d
if this is their take on cisgender people, I wonder what they think about heterosexuals
III@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 219d
Didn't you hear her, dammit?! She's a woman! Not cisgender, not heterosexual, not human...not even an earthling. A WOMAN!
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 219d
all my homies hate neologisms
I prefer to only use words coined in the 17th century or earlier
"internet" is a made-up word that means nothing, it's just an attempt to rewrite the English language to destroy civil order
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 219d
Sorry, slight clarification: Internet is a portmanteaux word. So it is a made-up word made-up of two different made-up words.
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 9 pts · 220d
I republican’t with this shit.
GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 220d
I swear to God, man, that woman is looking at me from inside my screen. I have a horrifying feeling that she is actively perceiving me and aware of my existence.
BranBucket@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 219d
Yeah, there's definitely something uncanny about that photo.
calliope@piefed.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 220d
Wyoming always sends their “best”
mech@feddit.org · 8 pts · 219d
When your smile looks like that, don't.
jpreston2005@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 220d
Man she got the crazy eyes, how tf u out here electing people with crazy eyes? you know they crazy!
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 220d
You seen the FBI guy yet. Cocaine is a helluva drug.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 219d
She then unhinged her jaw and swallowed a baconator whole to replenish her fivehead grease.
JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 219d
Ah, sounds like haggy's in the pee stain files
Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 219d
Ok, cisgender.
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social · 3 pts · 219d
Surely what she meant is that she's actually a trans woman and that she wants to be referred to by her gender of choice
morphballganon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 220d
"All words are made-up."--Thor
"Do not call me cisgender." Ok so you're trans then?