It sure looks that way.
Posted on 04/17/2007 9:09:45 PM PDT by SmithL
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - State lawmakers mocked sex changes while debating a bill that would have made it easier to get a new birth certificate after switching genders in another country.
The legislation came up shortly after a debate about neutering deer to control their population. Republican Rep. Chapin Rose joked that the state might start issuing sex-change documents to deer.
Republican Rep. Bill Black said he objects to recognizing non-surgical sex changes. "Maybe you went somewhere and a voodoo doctor said you were now a man, where you had been a woman," Black said.
"I've often thought that perhaps I was a female trapped in a male body. I know — it scares me, too," he said to hoots from his colleagues. "I wish I didn't have to shave every day. ... I'd like to smell better. I'd like to have softer skin."
Black did not return a message left at his legislative office.
Rose said afterward that he wasn't trying to belittle people who undergo sex changes.
The legislation failed 32-78.
The sponsor said she was "ashamed" of the comments.
"I didn't think it was good-natured at all," Democrat Rep. Sara Feigenholtz said. "I think a lot of my colleagues demonstrated some serious insensitivity to a very complex issue. I thought it was very unprofessional."
Oh well, back to Rehab.
Is she now "scarred for life"?
Always good to see the Illinois legislature tackling the tough issues that come in Illinoisians’ daily lives. Like sex changes.
It sure looks that way.
It’s not complex. Quite simple. People who are mentally ill, psychopathic, sexually deviant, and/or addicted to vice (pick any or all) should not have their vicious, degrading and damaging whims legalized or aided and abetted.
Pingout tomorrow.
I want to be a dolphin.
You mean something good actually happened in Springfield???Man, between this and the Supreme Ct decision re:PBA today, I don’t know if I can take all this good news (for a change).
I announce my support for NucSubs to exercise his right, as a man, to be a sea mammal. And I don’t want to hear anyone repressing his human rights to be an animal!
Even if I have no blowhole, which is nobody’s fault, not even the evil conservatives.
REG: What?!
LORETTA: It's my right as a man.
LOL! We were thinking the same thing...
GMTA. See also the reply immediately above mine.
Don’t you already wear Dolphins?
I figured if I threw it up there someone would blast it!
;-)
Thrice.
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