I’ve written about how the left uses language to (often falsely) shape political and social narratives. Abortion is “health care.” Illegal aliens are “undocumented citizens.” The homeless are the “unhoused,” or recently and more and more ridiculously, “people experiencing homelessness,” while people who have ties to Latin America are “Latinx” (although most Latinos in reality want nothing to do with the term).
One the silliest arguments they regularly bring forth, though, is regarding the term “woman”—what does it mean? Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson doesn’t know; meanwhile, many leftists define it as “anyone who identifies as one.” Right.
Enter Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D, but you probably already knew that), who is taking the language wars to ever-loonier levels by changing common words that mean something into unintelligible woke garbage.
Get a load of this:
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, is facing backlash for introducing a budget recommendation that changes the word “mother” to “inseminated person,” and “paternity” to “parentage” in certain parts of state law
The Evers administration’s budget recommendation for the 2025-2027 fiscal period advises several other gendered terms be changed, as well. References to “wife” or “husband” are changed to “spouse” in the proposal. In other places, the word “father” is changed to “parent,” and “mother” is swapped out for the phrase “parent who gave birth to the child.”
The budget was introduced by the state Senate’s Joint Committe on Finance on Tuesday.
If you met this man in person, would you be able to hold yourself back from laughing in his face? (I don’t think I’d be able to.) This is reaching a new level of absurdity. We could all sing along to the Beatles classic “Let It Be“:
When I find myself in times of trouble, “Inseminated Person” Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
Reaction on social media was not kind to the woke governor:
Remember when Democrat Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota called JD Vance “weird?” (He then of course turned out to be awfully weird himself.) Well, Evers and his ludicrous attempts to mangle normal language are truly strange.
While this sort of freakishness will undoubtedly continue in wacko blue states, you’re not going to be seeing it coming out of the federal government for at least the next four years:
On his first day back in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump attacked the issue head-on with an executive order called “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”
In the order, President Trump makes it official government policy “to recognize two sexes, male and female,” saying they are “not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.” The order also explicitly states that “’sex’ is not a synonym for and does not include the concept of ‘gender ideology.’”
Amen to that.
