State Rep. Katie Stuart (D-Edwardsville) is being panned after saying rules that previously applied to the protection of women are now to be applied to those identifying as “female.”
Stuart's remark came in response to a line of questioning from State Rep. Blaine Wilhour in which he asked her what constitutes being a female.
“Okay. Also in that same paragraph, it mentions a woman. Could you give us a definition of a woman,” Wilhour asked Stuart.
“I really am just shocked that there's opposition to supporting something like Title IX, which has given opportunities to people who have been held back for generations. And your line of questioning. Your line of questioning is offensive. Offensive,” Stuart said.
“Okay. Well, you still didn't answer to answer the question. What's the definition of a woman? We can't. We can't have it both ways. If we're going to do specific legislation for women, I think we need to clearly define it," Wihour said."Nobody is in opposition to Title nine. Title nine is protecting girls sports. And we're and we're all for that.”
“Title IX is protecting anybody who identifies as female,” Stuart responded.
The exchange was produced into a short video by the advocacy group Breakthrough Ideas. The video ended with two lines. “So now anyone can be a Woman? It just doesn’t add up.”
Wilhour has previously stated that "If we are going to pass legislation pertaining to women, we must be able to define it," 97.1 FM Talk reported.
Title IX – a federal civil rights bill – was enacted in 1972, only 52 years after women gained the right to vote, to provide protections and equal opportunities to women in higher education. The purview of that oversight has increased “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance, the bill reads.
Title IX was passed by deceased former U.S. Sen. Birch Bayh from Indiana.
“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance,” Birch Bayh Jr. told the IndyStar in recounting the bill his father sponsored and its effect on increasing women’s participation in higher education.
Feminist author Kara Dansky, a lifelong Democrat and activist, recently panned the trans movement as masculine encroachment into feminine stereotypes.
"But men acting as if they are hypersexualized women — which is of course, a lie, they’re men. Somehow this is allowed and championed and celebrated as some sort of freedom. It’s really not. It’s just regressive sex stereotypes,” she told Chicago’s Morning Answer, DuPage Policy Journal reported.
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