Posted on 03/31/2023 9:22:11 AM PDT by simpson96
A transgender legislator from Minnesota who was only elected three months ago has been named the state's 'Woman of the Year' honoree by USA Today.
Leigh Finke, a former academic, journalist and author, was voted into her heavily left-leaning district in the Twin Cities metro area last November with 81 percent of the ballot.
She was honored alongside several other people - including former First Lady Michelle Obama and the United States women's soccer team. Transgender assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine was one last year.
Finke is the first transgender legislator to be elected in the state, which is part of why the paper chose to honor her. Finke transitioned in 2017.
While the state's Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan praised the award, some were less than thrilled, including former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who wondered 'What will ever be left for biological females?'
The ex-press secretary spoke out on Fox News' Outnumbered following the news.
Fellow commentator Emily Compagno said that Finke's inclusion was pure identity politics at the cost of hard-working women everywhere.
'It is so exhausting, in my opinion, to have immutable characteristics or box-checking characteristics be the reason that someone is amplified to that level,' Compagno said.
Fox commentator Guy Benson said he had no problem with honoring a transgender woman, but noted that she had only served three months in office.
'President Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing, and it's because people wanted to make a political statement. That's what this is,' he said.
Benson also said:'This is not about actual achievement or accomplishment, it seems, as this individual seems to admit. This is about, ‘there's a culture war, there's a big controversy around trans issues, so let's find some and put them on these lists to make a statement.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
They have been giving a lot of awards to men who think they’re women recently. It’s to force us to accept the thought that a man can become a woman and a woman can become a man.
His Mother is So Proud!
That is a dude, and an fug ugly lookin’ dude at that. Who votes for someone who has publicly admitted they/them are insane, or possessed by demons? Who else refers to themselves as they/them. That is Legion, and is a sign of possession.
100%
I am the same on that, including the fags and wasted women, of the LGGOSCREW brand.
The Emperor has no clothes. Film at 11:00.
Say did Rod Stewart and Meryl Streep ever had an illicit affair? I think we found their baby, LOL.
The spirit of antichrist is very busy working through his reprobates
So obvious a fake that it couldn’t fool anyone.
They still are by the NORMAL among us!
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