OPINION:
On Sunday, will New Yorkers celebrate Non-Gestating Parent’s Day? With their latest language pandering, Democrats continue their flight from reality and toward political oblivion.
Gov. Kathy Hochul, who calls herself the state’s first “mom governor,” has until Sunday to decide whether she will sign a bill passed by the New York State Assembly last week, which would change mother and father in the state’s family law to “gestating parent” and “non-gestating parent.” Why not “lactating person” and “non-lactating person”?
The bill’s proponents have offered lame excuses that come down to inclusiveness. The terms mother and father are too close to reality for those who believe people can transform their essential nature by accepting an alternate view of reality.
It is the type of language pandering at which Democrats have become proficient. They speak of nonbinary for those unwilling to accept the fact that everyone is born a man or a woman and is unable to change their DNA, try as they might.
James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Texas, believes there are at least six sexes. Explaining that to Texas voters will be challenging.
Transgenderism — civil rights for the biologically confused — has become the Democrats’ sine qua non.
They insist that men who think they are women be allowed to compete in women’s sports, despite their almost insurmountable physical advantages. For 20 years, Democrats were telling us that we had to spend more money on women’s sports because women had a right to compete. Now, they are trying to destroy women’s sports in the name of spurious equality.
Liberal school districts are forcing girls to share bathrooms and showers with so-called transgender girls, despite well-publicized cases of sexual assault and considerations of modesty.
Blue states are fighting bans on gender transitioning for minors, on the theory that an adolescent who cannot legally vote or drive a car is competent to make irreversible decisions about their bodies.
Ms. Hochul is caught between a rock and a woke place. On the one hand, she should realize that moves such as signing the “gestating parent” bill will preclude a career outside New York politics. On the other hand, her party has made support for transgenderism a mark of compassion.
Now is the time for all good non-gestating persons to come to the aid of the party.
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