Legislation to add a “Gender X” option to driver’s license should have been a straightforward task in the far-left state of Massachusetts, but one Republican lawmaker managed to derail the bill by taking transgender ideology to its furthest extreme.
The state Senate voted in June to approve the measure, which would have also extended the option to learner’s permits and state identification cards. No documentation would have been required to prove an applicant is neither male nor female.
“It’s a milestone,” bill sponsor Sen. Karen Spilka, a Democrat, said at the time.
Despite the state House of Representatives being just as heavily Democratic as the Senate, however, it never got the chance to send the bill to liberal Republican Gov. Charlie Baker’s desk.
In a column for the Boston Globe, New England radio host Howie Carr details how Republican Rep. Jim Lyons adopted a unique strategy for defeating the bill: forcing it to live up to its supporters’ own logic.
“Since all Democrats must admit that the number of genders is endless, how dare the commonwealth lump all the new genders together as ‘Gender X’?” Carr writes, summarizing Lyons’ facetious reasoning. “Every gender, he declared, must be listed on Massachusetts driver’s licenses! That was Lyons’ non-negotiable demand. No justice, no peace.”
What’s scary is next year one of them will propose his exact Bill, except this time they will have time to vote on it.
Everything they do seems focused on bringing all issues to an absurd level. Is it to diminish the trust in public leadership or another reason? Nothing they are doing makes any logical sense.
This ridiculous behavior is an embarrassment to the country that the entire world sees.
Common sense strategy and brilliant execution. Well done, Rep. Jim Lyons.
@organgrinder “This ridiculous behavior is an embarrassment to the country that the entire world sees.”
That (IS) the strategy; Humiliation before the world. It started in earnest with the (Razorback crew) and still continues.
73 genders uh?
The level of Crazy, as enabled by Farcebook, has mushroomed!
Brilliant! Use Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, I think this time it’s #4, “Make the enemy live up to its own rules”.
With 72 listed wouldn’t they still need other as an option just in case?
He could have made up a few more and they never would have known.
There are 2 genders. Normal & Abnormal.
Once again I say you will never, ever hear an archeologist say”
“I wonder whut gender this skeleton identified with”
Any comment from Bawney (Moobs!) Fwank?
Bawney Fwank… the guy who slobbers more than a St Bernard on Novocaine… but on a historical note, back in the 16th century Barn’s distant relatives actually invented the condom using a goat’s lower intestine.
In the 17th century the British improved on the idea by taking the intestine out of the goat first!
“Face the full foolish force of the filth..”
I love that line of alliteration.
“Look, I know I just created this new gender identification, but how dare you classify it as other!!!”
To take it to the extreme, either no gender should be listed at all, since male and female shouldn’t deserve special recognition, or every gender – with up-to-the-minute updates. That or nothing.
That’s pretty funny! WTG, Rep.!
TRF
I have children of friends that have been undergrads at MIT the last 20 years. Their Professors of Archeology have said “I wonder what gender….”>
M guess is that if you are a Professor of Archeology you may in fact be an archeologist. what say you?
Libtard “milestone” converted into millstone neckware for dems.
Frickin’ brilliant!