GOP official misgenders trans lawmaker in the middle of state senate session

[Jessica_Rose]

GOP official misgenders trans lawmaker in the middle of state senate session

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Story by Alex Bollinger

Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R) misgendered out trans state Sen. Danica Roem (D) as she presided over a session of the Senate of Virginia.

Roem asked Earle-Sears a question during the session yesterday about the exact number of votes needed to pass a bill about prescription drug prices.

"Yes, sir, that would be 32," Earle-Sears replied. Roem walked out of the chamber, and someone asked Earle-Sears to take a recess.

Earle-Sears initially refused to apologize, and the Senate of Virginia took two recesses to address the situation, according to the Petersburg Progress-Index.

She did eventually apologize to the chamber but didn't address Roem specifically. She then accused Democrats of "showing disrespect towards me" even though she was the one who misgendered a Democrat. She said there "was not intent to offend" and that she had just misspoken.

Misgendering is the act of referring to a person with the wrong gendered terms. Most people consider this an insult. Transgender people are often the targets of intentional misgendering, and it is often used in the workplace as a form of harassment against transgender people.

[Devlyn]

And we could go just as low and call them a nice fellow...but they're not nice
at all, so we won't be doing that.