N. Dakota bill would bar people from using pronouns according to gender identity; $1,500 fines threa

[Eugene]

Source: NY Daily News

N. Dakota bill would bar people from using pronouns according to gender identity; $1,500 fines threatened

Muri Assunção, New York Daily News
Thu, January 19, 2023 at 6:25 PM EST

Republican lawmakers in North Dakota have introduced legislation seeking to prohibit transgender and nonbinary people from using pronouns according to their gender identity.

Senate Bill 1299 states that “words referring to an individual, person, employer, employee, contestant, participant, member, student, or juvenile must be used in the context of that person’s sex as determined at birth.

“Any person [who] violates this section must be assessed a fee of one thousand five hundred dollars,” the bill adds.

If the person’s gender identity or expression is contested, that determination should be established by the “individual’s deoxyribonucleic acid,” or DNA, the legislation states.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/n-dakota-bill-bar-people-232500810.html

[ColinC]

1. Jesus fucking Christ

https://imgflip.com/i/77xf2x

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. How long until its illegal to be who I am?

Fuck all conservatives
I say all because no
"reasonable "conservatives have stood up and denounced this shit.

[lapfog_1]

3. how the fuck is anyone supposed to know what sex they were "assigned" at birth?

https://y.yarn.co/8cce3bb6-6033-48c5-826a-28b6dfe2d35f.mp4

[RockRaven]

4. So what happens when the gender identity is contested *and* the person is a chimera?

Congratulations, you've established what exactly by the “individual’s deoxyribonucleic acid” in such a case? Do you even know, you willfully ignorant, obtuse, hateful fuckwits?

Note: there are myriad objections to this thing, I'm only pointing out a type of case where their prescribed "solution" is internally incoherent.

[FuzzyRabbit]

5. "The party of small government."

[vercetti2021]

6. So first violation of the Constitution?

You can't just make people not use something that they don't want to use that's stupid that's so unconstitutional

[Behind the Aegis]

7. I totally understand!

It is so difficult to call someone by their name! I mean if I meet someone and he tells me to call him "Chad", why should I oblige? I think he looks like his name is "David" and I should be allowed to call him by that name, not the one he tells me to call him! Sure, I may not know if that is his real name, so I will demand a birth certificate and double check before I allow him to tell me what I should call him!

So, how fucking STUPID does the above sound?! Insane? Deranged? Selfish and self-absorbed?!

THIS...THIS is what they are doing with their power?! THIS is how they govern?!

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!

I am so goddamned tired of people telling other people how they should live their lives when their very existence is NO threat to them. I am fucking sick of people telling others what their lived experience is or isn't!

[Pete Ross Junior]

8. OK. Suppose that I (not trans) refer to a transwoman as she? (for example)

Do they fine me? Or both of us, because it is an illegal transaction so to speak?

Which party makes a big point about freedom of speech these days?

[lambchopp59]

9. Oooo...key....dough...key..., Herbert.

Holy Jeebus Christ Crunch Cereal how far into the fake controversy realm are we in North DaKracker now?
That does it. Someone needs to take out the broadcast tower atop the Fox News building about like the climax in the movie "They Live". I couldn't find that particular clip offhand.
For anyone too young to recall: here's a general recap: