Republican lawmakers in both chambers of Congress have basically introduced
a resolution that they're referring to as the women's bill of rights.
And it doesn't really include any rights and plural is not something that
you could really include in a description of what they're offering here because
it's just one right and all it does is discriminate against transgender people.
Because in a Republican lawmakers world offering rights to women just
amounts to denying rights to the powerless in the country.
And this, of course, is on the heels of women learning that their reproductive
rights and their autonomy over their own bodies will be ripped away from them.
Now, the resolution introduced by Republicans in both chambers of Congress
would define words like woman, man, mother and father on the basis of biological sex,
a rebuke to transgender and inclusive measures.
Now, Republicans called the measure a women's bill of rights strong language
that doesn't really apply to what they're offering up.
Arguing that defining women on the basis of biological sex is necessary to
protect women's rights in spaces like domestic violence centers,
sports locker rooms and bathrooms.
I didn't know that domestic violence was exclusive to biological women.
But according to the ignorant lawmakers on the right,
I guess that's what they believe.
But Jake the fact of the matter is it's not what they believe.
This is a manufactured culture war that is having a negative impact on
transgender people in the country.
But what they're doing here, this is their strategy is to distract away from
the fact that they succeeded in stripping reproductive rights away from women.
They don't wanna talk about that.
That is not a popular thing to discuss.
70% of the country wanted to maintain reproductive rights in this country.
So what have they been doing?
During the hearing last week on abortion access,
this was a hearing in the house Judiciary Committee,
every Republican lawmaker decided to ask questions about gender that's it.
Because they don't wanna talk about abortion access.
Not a popular thing that they've been pushing for.
Not a popular thing that they've accomplished.
So instead,
let's just focus on transgender stuff because it's red meat for our voters.
>> Yeah, so this was a joke.
It shows you how little Republicans care about women.
But I'm gonna come back to that first because of course the correct name for
this bill should have been the right to hate trans people because the entire bill
is just about trans people.
It has nothing to do with women, right?
And they say, it's because we're trying to protect women.
Let's break that down for a second.
They say, well, in the current system, there could be violence and
we're trying to prevent that.
Is that right?
Wait, hold on, let's think this through.
So let's say it's a trans woman who was born biologically male, right?
So I haven't lost any Republicans so far.
You guys agree with that, right?
And so but she presents as a woman because she's trans?
So she walks into in your fantasy,
she walks into a female bathroom and attacks women.
Why would she do that?
Well, that doesn't make any sense at all.
She's a woman.
Why would she attack other women, right.
But now let's think about if she walks into a male bathroom in a secluded area,
what do you think might happen?
>> They don't care.
>> Do you think there might be violence against her as opposed to her
committing the violence?
In fact, the idea that trans people commit more violence rather than having violence
committed upon them is an absurdity.
Statistically it's not even close.
The trans community suffers from more violence than almost any other community.
>> They know, they don't care.
>> And of course, and it's always worse when it comes to Republicans.
They encourage that violence.
That's what they're like.
Trans people, they're different.
Remember everybody be scared of how different they are.
And then this is a hate bill.
They try to pass this hate bill so that there'll be more violence against trans
people because the Republicans are monsters.
And don't tell me it's not all of them, the whole party is behind this.
Now let's turn to women.
This got nothing about women.
It's the best called bills, right the right of women.
It has no rights for women except to be safe from those dangerous transport.
>> It's a perfect crime for the Republicans, right?
Because what they're actively doing is stripping women of their rights.
So they do this PR stunt where they purport to be in favor of women's rights.
They drafted the women's bill of rights, everyone.
And in reality, I mean, you don't even have to scratch the surface.
It includes one real thing in there and
that one real thing is just hatred towards transgender people.
>> And I just wanted to be clear what we mean by real and not real.
The first three rights are not rights.
They're just definitions, there's so in the last two are not rights either.
They're just comments.
The only so called right is for women to be safe from those dangerous,
dangerous trans people in their bathrooms and locker rooms.
That's it, women congratulations.
Republicans have just given you all of those rights.
>> These are people who wanna force women to carry a rapist baby for
nine months and then give birth to that rapist baby.
That's who these people are.
They don't care about your rights, they care about their political power and
they care about, feeding red meat to their evangelical voters so
they can maintain the power that they have or to stay in power.
But the fact of the matter is they don't care about rights for
anyone really, right.
>> And why do they even do this because their bases evangelical right wing
christians who are evil.
And so they wanna punish people that don't look like them that don't act like them,
that they view to be outsiders.
So the Republicans are an evil party that have to feed their evil base.
And so that's why they don't care about women's rights.
They say I wanna use your body's mites, this property of the government were for
small government.
No, you're not, you're all a bunch of liars.
And isn't it weird that there aren't any elected democrats that speak halfway as
forcefully as we do about their so called opponents?
Like of course the media is never going to tell you that the republicans
are monsters.
My God, that would I I don't wanna be accused of bias to tell you that they
actually are in favor of zero rights for women.
They're built for rights for women includes zero rights.
That is a fact.
But my God, we would be biased if we told you that.
So we'll call it even right and Democratic Party.
But we have the same donors as the evil monster.
So, now you gotta come here for us to actually defend women and
American citizens.
>> Now one of the sponsors of this resolution is
Representative Debbie Lesko of Arizona Republican.
She says the democrats are erasing women and the spaces that are uniquely ours.
Wait, hold on, no, if I'm not mistaken, Jake, the people who make me feel like
a second class citizen in this country are not I mean Democrats, I can't stand them.
They're incredibly weak and I have my criticisms toward them for sure.
But it's not trans people.
It's not Democrats.
It's the GOP, it's the right wing religious theocratic
zealots who somehow get to have more say over my body than I do.
They're the ones who make me feel like a second class citizen.
So for them to put that on Democrats or transgender people is ridiculous.
But she's leading the House version of the bill.
She said this at a press conference announcing the bill on Thursday with
the Republican Study Committee, the largest conservative caucus in the House.
She also says it's pretty simple.
It acknowledges the biological differences in men and women highlights
the importance of differentiating between men and women involved for
the purposes of protecting sex segregated activities and organizations and
affirms the importance of using mother and father in written law to protect families.
Do you guys understand how much of a non issue this is?
That's the other thing.
Look not to minimize the pain and
suffering that the small population of transgender people are dealing
with right now in this terrible authoritarian country.
But in terms of the impact the transgender community has on everyone else,
it's non existent.
They just wanna be treated with dignity.
Them being treated with dignity doesn't make me feel like I'm being erased and
the Republicans know that they know that.
But like with every other culture war issue, they got to find the boogey men,
and in this case it's transgender people, they need something to campaign on.
What else would they campaign on?
The fact that they keep cutting corporate tax rates.
The fact that they keep giving goodies to their elite buddies, the fact that they're
engaging in enriching themselves through their position of power.
The fact that they're very likely trading individual stocks with insider
information, which is by the way illegal for
everyone else supposed to be illegal for them as well.
No, this is all they have.
This is their bread and butter hate, that's all they've got to sell to
their base, and I just wish their base was smart enough to realize this
is not an issue that negatively impacts you at all at all.
But everything else that these Republicans are doing, and with the help of some
Democrats, to be sure is having an impact, because they're robbing you blind wake up.
>> So let's get this right, by the way, even if you think you're an evil
Evangelical right winger and you think, my God, trans people are so dangerous.
So if you're a woman in that category,
you're saying I'm willing to give up my body for nine months and
let the government run my body and tell me what I can and can't do with it.
And by the way, and then I have to take care of a person for
the rest of my life, no matter whose baby it is, okay?
And that's okay because I'm going to be protected from the evil trans people.
Which is a problem in what?
How many cases?
Even if you believe that point, what percentage of the case, right?
You think that's the major issue?
I mean, come on man, I don't know what's worse.
Anyway, I'm so tired of insulting them.
If you're a woman and you're voting for the Republican Party,
you should have your head examined, go get mental health counseling.
You're voluntarily giving up your rights.
So that monstrous men on that side can control your bodies and
control your fate, your very life.
And you're giving that away because you've been brainwashed by the cult of an evil
right wing and think, I must obey.
I must obey the males.
The males are so important.
Here, take my body, do whatever you want with it.
You should have your head examined