Posted on 08/17/2018 8:45:46 PM PDT by rickmichaels
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.”
Lyons told Carr he settled on demanding recognition for 73 different “genders,” as that was the number he reached by tallying the number of custom gender options Facebook offers.
Knowing that his liberal colleagues couldn’t rule any of the genders out of order without undermining the logic of transgender ideology, Lyons introduced each as a separate amendment to the bill the evening of July 31, each requiring 10 minutes of debate and three minutes to vote on.
“Number 6 added as a gender ‘cis.’ Amendment 9 — cis female, 13 — cis woman, 14 — cisgender female, 18 — cisgender woman,” Carr details. “Amendment 21 — gender fluid, 22 gender non-conforming, 23 gender questioning, 25 gender variant, 26 genderqueer.”
Six hours in, Lyons had only filed 35 of the amendments, at which point House leadership realized he was running out the clock and there wasn’t enough time before the midnight deadline to pass both the bill and the other legislation on the docket. At 10:45 p.m., they withdrew the bill.
“By now, the few remaining sane Democrats in the Legislature realized that Lyons had done them a solid, sparing them from being recorded on a roll call vote on whether to recognize the genders of pangender, polygender and cisgender,” Carr wrote, “not to mention intersex, intersex man, intersex woman and intersex person.”
“One way or another, progressivism is always a death sentence. So we may as well turn it around and use it on its perpetrators whenever we get the chance,” Conservative Review’s Steve Deace said of the incident. “That doesn’t mean becoming like them, but understanding their con and endlessly harassing them with its real-world applications.”
Deace added, “We need legions more like” Lyons, following his example to make progressives “face the full foolish force of the filth they shove down our throats with barely any resistance (if not a subsidy). Lyons called their bluff, and they called it a day.”
Legislative deadlines recently thwarted another pro-LGBT bill in the Bay State, as well. The Senate failed to reconcile different versions of a bill banning reparative or “conversion” therapy for minors before the August 1 deadline, thanks to a controversial amendment that would have required teachers and doctors to report hearing about such treatments to social services.
No offense taken. Thank you.
I will really upset the apple cart and say I believe they try to feminized our men because we need strong men to help us defeat these monsters.
“I will really upset the apple cart and say I believe they try to feminized our men because we need strong men to help us defeat these monsters.”
Congratulations. You get it.
Get ready, ma’am. A storm is coming.
L
I welcome the storm at this point. Tired of their underhanded schemes.
“I welcome the storm at this point.”
Having seen one up close and personal I’m not sure that “welcome” is the word I’d use. But it’s coming, wanted or not. That’s for damned sure.
The Left is all in. And if you think they’re crazy now just wait until about this time 2 years from now.
Best,
L
Was hoping this storm would be more of a reckoning to bring the whirlwind upon these criminals.
“Was hoping this storm would be more of a reckoning to bring the whirlwind...”
Be careful what you wish for. Whirlwinds are dangerous beasts under the best circumstances.
You don’t really think these people will go down without a fight, do you? They want power and they’re willing to destroy a duly elected President to get it.
They’re serious. It’s long past time us deplorable Normals started believing them.
The Left hates you. They want you dead.
Plan accordingly.
L
You skipped two decimal places. 1,200 is 0.024% of 5 million.
Regards,
Jim Lyons for........anything he wants!
let’s see. 73 types of “genders” and counting.
Heinz has 57 flavors.
Obama has 57 states (supposedly in the US but more likely he was talking about the Organization of Islamic States).
Keith Ellison might have two wives.
Hillary has two lovers (guess who) and it’s not Bill.
Michael Moore has 4 goats. Don’t ask.
Rosie O’Donnell has a dozen cucumbers and they ain’t for salads.
Nancy Pelosi has 25 face-lifts.
Rahm Emanuel has 70 dead and wounded every week in Chicago.
Sen. Blumenthal takes 20 meds to control his insanity, so I’m told by Harry Reid’s sources.
AND, Bernie Sanders, the poor communist advocate for the working man, has THREE HOUSES including a beach house.
“Long Live the Communist Revolution and Real Estate Business”.
Male, Female, and 71 different kinds of homo.
Yes, his support of Baker is disappointing.
As a stick in the eye to MA Conservatives, when Baker played an introduction video at his MA GOP convention speech in April, the first few seconds of the vid pushed a closeup of Jim Lyons giving his support.
I suppose Jim may be between a rock and a hard place, in need of keeping friendly with the eventual nominee. But, he didn’t have to push the support - could have laid low.
Howie Carr writes for the Boston Herald and not for the Boston Globe.
This is a glaring error, and enough so that it compels one to consider what other sloppiness is contained in the article.
From the article:
“One way or another, progressivism is always a death sentence. So we may as well turn it around and use it on its perpetrators whenever we get the chance,” Conservative Review’s Steve Deace said of the incident. “That doesn’t mean becoming like them, but understanding their con and endlessly harassing them with its real-world applications.”
The best summation I’ve heard to date, on how to demonstrate the idiocy of dhimmicrap, socialist, politically correct claptrap.
Do you know what a nightmare it is to go to the "DMV" to get a license in MA? Do you know the bureaucratic durge march it is and the giant time (as H.Ross Perot would say) sucking sound this would be?
The Dem's dodged a bullet here, adding even more time to your DMV visit because of checking off a bazillion boxes or needing yours done over to conform to the new standard would had the Bay State leaning so far right it would give Texas a run for it's money.
Charles Murrary at the tail end of the Obama Admin was on Bill Bennett's program and noted to counteract them ( these are my words to describe it ) and their deep state tactics we have to slow them down in their own mud if you will, including lawsuits etc. This was just that, Bravo.
BTW, to get a handle on what is going on in MA listen to WRKO on the web or your phone both Jeff Kuhner and Howie Carr. IMHO people are fed up, and I think Liz Warren's defeat this fall will be the biggest surprise of 2018, Go Geoff Diehl!
There are Republicans in MA? Who knew?
Bwa ha ha! This guy is great!
Ex-Mass citizen. Born and raised on Cape Cod. Lived in Framingham, Sudbury and Newtonville after the Navy. Howie Carr and Kuhner are a God send.
Good. There are two sexes. Gender is for Spanish nouns.
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