House hearing abruptly ends after GOP lawmaker misgenders Sarah McBride
A House subcommittee hearing abruptly ended after a Republican lawmaker was confronted over misgendering Rep. Sarah McBride.
Wow, Delaware really has a jewel of a representative. Continuing with a flippant response to such an insult, afterwards declaring she's here to make life of her constituents better and refusing to rise to the bait of that mysoginistic POS? I wish there were more politicians like her.
Keating is based as hell to call him out like that. Also lol @ the quick “Thank you madame speaker” response From McBride
Yeah, the issue with the targeted person calling it out is that it just allows the attacker to pull the classic DARVO tactic and play the victim. If you fight back, it allows them to paint you in a bad light and use you as an example against everyone like you.
That’s why it’s so important to have allies. It’s the ally’s job to get angry and confrontational when the victimized person can’t. When the victim needs to maintain decorum, the ally should be flipping tables and getting in the victimizer’s face about it. Because Keating is an old white guy; His identity can’t be used to further victimize trans people like McBride’s would have been.
This is a perfect example of how the situation should play out. Bully tries to throw insults. The insulted person remains calm, but their ally gets in the bully’s face and makes a scene. The bully quickly retreats when they realize that they may need to actually back up their words, and the original victim is able to say that they did nothing wrong.
Keating replied, “You will not continue it with me unless you introduce a duly elected representative the right way.” Self then adjourned the hearing.
Good for him, standing up for a colleage and due process, too.
If the government feels the need to recognize what's in our pants, the government needs reninded exactly where our boundaries lie.
What's in my pants is whatever the fuck I tell them is in my pants.
What’s in my pants is whatever the fuck I tell them is in my pants.
We have conceal and carry laws for this exact reason. /jk
”"I’m not here to fight about bathrooms. I’m here to fight for Delawareans and to bring down costs facing families," she said."
Fuck yeah. Rock on. I'm sorry she has to face this bullshit, but Delaware is lucky to have her.
I didnt know she was trans- To be totally honest im actually out of the loop on a lot of this, Visually, she looks EXACTLY like a woman (man I wish I could swap genders and pass-)
Dude she passes 100%, there's not anything to her appearance that looks masculine, and I say this as just someone looking at her first glance. I saw her for the first time and said "Thats deadass a woman, How do you misgender her she's literally a woman. Are they stupid?" then scrolled the comments and found out she's trans.
AND THEY STILL MISGENDERED HER??? Nah dude- fuck whoever did that, they're a prick fr.
(you're still a prick if you purposefully misgender someone but like- idk if the person looked exactly like man but prefers She/her, my dumbass is gonna be struggling regardless; I can barely remember to eat food during the day. But this scenario is like looking at Janet Mock and calling her a He. WTF??)
"Self later explained himself in a post on X, formerly Twitter, saying that “It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female,”"
But she is one of those two fucking sexes you piece of garbage.
Not that we should be looking for logic and reason from the bigots, but an executive order applies to the executive branch.
Maybe Keith Self needs to go back to elementary social studies to figure out which branch he is working for.
He can't even use this because the very thing he's referencing (the Trump EO to define the two sexes) defines it by "at conception". At conception, every fetus begins as female before the other chromosome kicks in. Conclusion, Representative McBride is a woman. But so is he. Not that it matters.
Literally either way, that dumb fuck is wrong.
transphobia is just misogyny. period. it's why every single transphobe is a sexist piece of shit.
And why they completely ignore that trans men exist any time trans people come up.
yup it's all based on the idea that women are weaker and need protecting
In response, McBride said, “Thank you, Madam Chair,” before beginning her remarks. She was soon cut off by the subcommittee’s ranking member Rep. William Keating, D-Mass., who asked Self to repeat his introduction. He then called McBride “mister” again.
“Mr. Chairman, you are out of order,” Keating shot back. “Mr. Chairman, have you no decency? I mean, I’ve come to know you a little bit. But this is not decent.”
Though Self said it was time to continue the hearing, Keating replied, “You will not continue it with me unless you introduce a duly elected representative the right way.” Self then adjourned the hearing.
Self later explained himself in a post on X, formerly Twitter, saying that “It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female,” referring to President Donald Trump executive order in January.
McBride later wrote on X that “No matter how I'm treated by some colleagues, nothing diminishes my awe and gratitude at getting to represent Delaware in Congress.”
Fascists fashing in addition to being contemptible fuckwits.
You know if these people think the president has the ability to just declare laws then why don't they just resign? What's the purpose of a congressman? If he's just surrendered all the rights and privileges of his office then why does he need to fill his office? Just seems like he's a burden on the taxpayers at this point. Seems like that's an inefficiency that could be cut Musk.
Why are ANY Democrats on Xitter?!
DNC, get your idiot consultants gone already.
Ha, nice, Keating is my Rep.
dude- fuck that guy with an 8 foot poll. This just makes my blood boil. The fact someone can just get away with being a fucking asshole IN BROAD DAYLIGHT? Bro. Imagine the shit he says behind closed doors.
“In response, McBride said, “Thank you, Madam Chair,” before beginning her remarks.“
Perfection.
An underrated gem of a movie
“Thank you, Madam Chair,”
Beautiful.
McBride is truly awe-inspiring. She's so strong.
Gotta give props to Keating too. It's refreshing to see a Democrat actually push back.
Not just push back, but push back so effectively. I hope Democrats see how well it works. Fascist are cowards by Nature. When you hit them in the face they fold. Feel free to take that metaphorically and literally.
Fascist lack-of-virtue-signalling.
Vice signalling
Nice.
Keating replied, “You will not continue it with me unless you introduce a duly elected representative the right way.” Self then adjourned the hearing.
Good for him, standing up for a colleage and due process, too.
If the government feels the need to recognize what's in our pants, the government needs reninded exactly where our boundaries lie.
What's in my pants is whatever the fuck I tell you is on my pants.
