Illinois lawmakers mock sex change bill

[LostInTime]

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State lawmakers mocked sex changes while debating a bill that would have made it easier to get a new birth certificate after switching genders in another country.

The legislation came up shortly after a debate about neutering deer to control their population. Republican Rep. Chapin Rose joked that the state might start issuing sex-change documents to deer.

Republican Rep. Bill Black said he objects to recognizing non-surgical sex changes. "Maybe you went somewhere and a voodoo doctor said you were now a man, where you had been a woman," Black said.

[HelenW]

So can we transsexuals now start making fun of Reps. Rose and Black?  I almost feel like doing it but I won't sink to that kind of insensitively ignorant level.

I feel bad for the citizens of Illinois, especially those who are transgendered, that they are so poorly represented in their state capitol.

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helen