LGB NewsU.S. House passes bill protecting marriage equality

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[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yep, I’ve noted this welcome pivot as well and I personally make sure to use “legalization of same-marriage” and “right to same-sex marriage” in place of imprecise language like “marriage equality.”

Notably the marriage bill in question also refers to “sex” not gender because even the Democrats must recognize that “same-gender [identity]” marriage has never been outlawed or under threat, nor has the right of a heterosexual couple to call themselves gay.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Notably the marriage bill in question also refers to “sex” not gender because even the Democrats must recognize that “same-gender [identity]” marriage has never been outlawed or under threat, nor has the right of a heterosexual couple to call themselves gay.

I'm not so sure that this is the case. The issue is likely that all these laws in the country were written before gender started being used as a replacement for sex. So all the state laws are written with the correct vocabulary saying "sex" therefore any laws which reference those laws in general must follow the same vocabulary. If not then the laws are meaningless and are wide open to law suits. Yes the people who write the laws are trying to be performatively woke but also most of these people are lawyers and they know how to say things in such a way to get the end result.

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You’ve said it more clearly than I did, but yes this is what I meant. By Democrats I’m referring to the Democratic politicians and their teams behind the bill. They’re basically forced to talk in the language of sex in the bill to achieve the result they want. Because when it comes to actual discrimination, it happens on the basis of one’s sex not their internal sense of self.