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A group of non-binary political candidates sued the Brooklyn Democratic Party and the city’s Board of Elections because their ballot petitions only allowed for male or female gender designations, demanding the party drop gender parity rules originally intended to bring more women into the political sphere.
So the thinking is that indulging the frivolous bullshit of calling oneself “non-binary” is actually more important than bringing more women into politics. That takes some staggering level of self-involvement.
News flash: “non-binary” doesn’t matter. It’s not 1950. Just don’t wear the ruffled skirts and lipstick, and get on with your life. Nobody cares whether you’re “binary” or not.
One plaintiff said he was disappointed by the lack of recognition for non-binary identities in the political process.
He? So the plaintiff isn’t non-binary?
In any case – this is what I’m saying. The hell with “recognition for non-binary identities in the political process.” The political process isn’t about “recognizing” every silly fad-identity teenagers come up with, nor should it be.
“For me as a trans person trying to engage with local politics, it was disheartening that there were only two options at county level. You have to declare that you’re male or female,” said Derek Gaskill, who identifies as trans masculine.
Me me me me, says narcissistic goon Derek Gaskill who thinks his her their fantasies are more important than political realities.
Gaskill and his fellow plaintiffs — who are vying to represent sections of Williamsburg, Bushwick, and Bedford-Stuyvesant — all filled out petitions in March with signatures from local voters to run for county committee in the June and November elections. However, they left the gender field blank because the sheets only had the options of male or female.
They identify across a spectrum of gender non-conforming identities, including non-binary, genderfluid, genderqueer, or transgender, according to the lawsuit, which was organized by the reform-oriented club New Kings Democrats.
This isn’t reform, though, it’s reaction. It’s a campaign to take rights away from women.
The plaintiffs argue that the Kings County Democratic County Committee must strike down its gender parity rules, based off of state election law, which mandate that each county election district and each state assembly district must have a certain number of men and women representing the areas. For example, each assembly district has to be represented by one male and one female district leader.
While these rules were originally intended to encourage more women to join the historically male-dominated political sphere, they further the exclusion of non-binary people, according to Gaskill.
They still are intended to make it possible for more women to join the historically male-dominated political sphere, and that goal is far more important than the wounded vanity of Gaskill and her his their self-obsessed friends.
“I think it’s important to discuss and honor the progress that was made with these rules, but it’s equally important to remember that a lot of women’s rights movements have excluded trans people,” he said.
No, it isn’t; it is not more important. And look what this fucking fool is saying: that “trans people” (who are just women and men who claim to be men and women) matter more than women. This ff is saying that women’s rights movements have excluded trans people while not saying that centuries upon centuries of male domination have excluded trans people. Somehow it’s all the fault of women’s rights, while patriarchy gets to run away laughing.
The “gender” part of a “reformed” application would be longer than the rest of the form.
I’d love to have a clear, concise, consistant, non-circular definition of each of those, please. How do “transgender” and “nonbinary” people use the words “sex,” “gender,” “man,” “woman,” “male,” “and female” without contradicting each other? I’m thinking that some of their uses and definitions of these terms are going to be mutually exclusive.
Women have had their fifteen minutes of fame; time for them to make way for THE MOST VULNERABLE PEOPLE OF ALL!
Oh, and also, BE KIND!! https://twitter.com/AndrewBoff/status/1247169175187075072
So rules designed to make room for women in politics can be satisfied even if those women are really men, and have enjoyed male privilege their entire life. Got it.
Because no doubt the next step is to insist that the nb/gf/gg/wtf contingent receive the consideration of being one of the members of the district, and of course, the one that gets edged out is the woman, because it is more difficult to edge out men. They might actually have to work at that. And with people who might come for them with barbed wire wrapped baseball bats.
Women’s rights movements don’t have to include trans people. There’s no natural association there. It’s like saying ‘it’s equally important to remember that a lot of aboriginal rights movements have excluded skateboarders.’
Women’s rights movements do just fine including those transpeople who are women.
I think it’s particularly telling that they want to prevent the tracking of sex parity rather than add more options and continue to track parity. Of course parity would mean a tiny percentage of representatives for a tiny percentage of gender specials.
But, Papito, what if they include people who are both aboriginal and skateboarders? Is that sufficient?
And as for including non-binary, we include millions of non-binary people; they just happen to be women by sex, and are fine with being called women, being seen as women, and fighting to have their rights protected as women.
I mean, I don’t wear ruffled skirts or lipstick. I do wear long hair, though. No high heels, but the hats I wear (and I wear hats all the time; now that I am both a hard scientist and a credentialled playwright, I can be openly eccentric) are typically those designed for women. My pants have pockets, but are a woman’s cut. My shirts are comfortable, but are fit for a woman. But I wear men’s t-shirts, because I like the way they fit better (I get them a size too large, and they are extremely comfortable). I dislike sports, but love hiking and science.
In short, I am non-binary. OMG, I must be special! Except… early every woman I know is like that…oh, slightly different on which aspects they meet and don’t meet, but none of them are stereotypically female. Same with the men I know – they are not stereotypically male. So, non-binary. All I need to do is start saying “My pronoun is all y’all”, and voila! Instant special.
Point being, and I know you got it and are just being sassy, indigenous or aboriginal rights movements don’t have to spend a lot of time talking about skateboarding to be including indigenous or aboriginal skateboarders in their movement.
Or, on the other hand, they could also build them a skatepark.
https://youtu.be/ka_C6O7ysHY
So these precious little gender-feel kiddies are basically giving the Republicans ready-made campaign commercials now? Because there are a whole lot of middle-of-the-road Americans who will hold their nose and vote for Trump if they see that the Democrats are determined to turn America into a place where this garbage rules over all of us………….just saying.
Papito, what, me be sassy? ;-)