US House and Senate Passes Bill Weakening Rights of Women and Homosexuals
HR 3684, an otherwise unremarkable infrastructure bill, sneaks in language regarding “gender identity”
HR 3684, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which sneaks in language that adds “gender identity” as a protected characteristic alongside sex and sexual orientation, has passed both the House and the Senate, and now awaits Joe Biden to sign it into law.
The language in question reads:
No individual in the United States may, on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or disability, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity that is funded in whole or in part with funds made available to carry out this title.
What they failed to do with the Equality Act, they’ve managed to do with an infrastructure bill: weaken the rights of women and homosexuals.
Soon, any institution that accepts money from the government is legally responsible for denying biological sex and playing along with the unaddressed delusions of gender ideologues—even if it means impacting the rights and autonomy of women and gay people.
It’s simply a fact that any law that includes “gender identity” ultimately undermines protections based on sex and sexual orientation.
How are women protected if men can identify their way into their spaces? We’ve seen the danger they’re put in under the self ID model in situations such as the Wi Spa incident. Or MICHFEST, or the Vancouver rape shelter, or any other countless women’s space now lost to harmful invasion disguised as inclusion.
How are homosexuals protected if heterosexuals can identify their way into our spaces? We’ve seen the lack of respect for autonomy that transgenderism has for gay men in the way they distribute literature that encourages trans identified females to “stealth” in gay male only sex positive spaces, withhold informed consent, and rape gay men by deception.
Most of the country will celebrate this bill as some sort of false human rights victory. However, any human rights victory for one group should never impede the rights of another group. While trans-identified people do deserve legal protections, and to even have their group recognized as its own class, this should never come at the cost of others human rights or autonomy.
Only women and homosexuals will understand the loss they’re now facing: the loss of single-sex spaces, the loss of our autonomy, the loss of the progress we made for lesbians and gay men, and the loss of the right to recognize reality.