Wednesday, May 08, 2019

The "Equality Act" Is An Attempt To Give Transgender Ideology The Force Of Law

I said before that I doubted that the Democrats' "Equality Act" actually included an attempt to redefine sex so as to include sexual orientation and "gender identity"...because that would be crazy. I said that I expected that it merely sought sex-like protections for sexual orientation and "gender identity."
   But I was wrong. It does aim to redefine 'sex' in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by making changes like the following throughout:
(1) in subsection (a), by inserting “sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity),” before “or national origin”; and
   But sex is not sexual orientation, and it certainly isn't "gender identity," which isn't even a thing, really, but just a tangle of confusions.
   I'm inclined to be in favor of sex-like protections for sexual orientation. Not for "gender identity"...but, then, not for any fictional category. But, first, if Congress wants to pass such a law, it should pass it. And, second, you can't "redefine" sex to include sexual orientation any more than you can redefine it to include introversion or wittiness. You could maybe argue that discriminating against Mr. Smith for having sex with men is a form of sex-discrimination since no one would ever discriminate against Mrs. Jones for having sex with men...but that's a completely different thing. Making arguments is different than pretending that words mean things that they don't.
   The left loves playing with words. They try to win big social arguments on the cheap by just pretending that words mean something different than what they actually mean. That's a weirdly effective, hence particularly insidious, form of shenanigans, and people have to learn to call bullshit on it.

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