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During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on abortion, Senator Josh Hawley and Berkeley Law Professor Khiara Bridges debated whether only women can become pregnant.
After Berkeley Law Professor Khiara Bridges referred to “people with a capacity for pregnancy,” Republican Sen. Josh Hawley asked if she meant women.
The left-wing professor accused Hawley of creating a dangerous situation by asking if only women can become pregnant.
“I want to recognize that your line of questioning is transphobic, and it opens up trans people to violence by not recognizing them,” said Bridges.
“Wow, you’re saying that I’m opening up people to violence by asking whether or not women are the only folks who can have pregnancies?” Hawley asked.
“Because of my line of questioning?” Hawley shot back. “So we can’t talk about it?”
“Do you believe that men can get pregnant?” she asked.
“No! I don’t think men can get pregnant,” Hawley replied.
“And that leads to violence?” Hawley asked. “Is this how you run your classroom? Are students allowed to question you, or are they also treated like this, where they’re told that they’re opening up people to violence by questioning?”
“You should join, you might learn a lot,” the professor said.
“Wow, I would learn a lot. I’ve learned a lot just from this exchange,” Hawley replied.
The World Health Organization has updated its publicly available information and announced “Sex is not limited to male or female.” Apparently, after discovering new scientific evidence, WHO has updated its “widely-used gender mainstreaming manual.”
WHO has recognized that the organization updates its information due to “new scientific evidence and conceptual progress on gender, health and development.”
“Better late than never,” Alex Parker of RedState joked.
“One might have expected lesser discoveries by 2022. But apparently, it’s taken multiple millennia on the other side of Noah for experts to understand that sex doesn’t come in twos — at least not where humans are concerned,” Parker notes.
The organization states, “The Gender Mainstreaming for Health Managers: a Practical Approach manual addresses how gender norms, roles and relations affect health-related behaviours and outcomes as well as health sector responses.”
“At the same time, it recognizes that gender inequality is a cross-cutting determinant of health that operates in conjunction with other forms of discrimination based on factors such as age, socioeconomic status, ethnicity or place of origin and sexual orientation. The manual provides a basis for addressing other forms of health-related discrimination.”
