Politician calls truth-tellers weird in identity debate


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The first biologically male individual who identifies as a woman and was elected to Congress is revisiting the age-old tactic of gaslighting by claiming “No, you’re the weird one.” This response came after they were correctly referred to by their biological sex during a committee hearing.

Democratic Representative Sarah McBride from Delaware was addressed as “mister” by Republican Representative Keith Self from Texas at a hearing on Thursday. This prompted McBride’s Democratic colleague, Representative Bill Keating from Massachusetts, to briefly attempt to shame Self for stating the biological truth.

McBride retaliated by calling Self “Madame Chair” and later brought up the incident at a press conference on Thursday. During the conference, McBride labeled the Republican Party’s focus on cultural issues as “weird” and “bizarre.”

“It seems that I occupy a rent-free space in the minds of some of my Republican colleagues,” McBride stated. “I wish they would dedicate even a fraction of the time they spend thinking about me to considering how to reduce costs for American families or finding ways to improve the functioning of the government. … The Republican Party is obsessed with cultural war issues. It is weird, and it is bizarre.”

However, it is considered weird if one believes in the existence of two biological sexes, while identifying as a woman despite being biologically male is deemed normal. This line of attack resembles insecure high school students labeling their happier, more well-adjusted peers as weird due to their own insecurities – a clear case of projection.

It is also a desperate attempt. During the presidential campaign in July 2024, Democrats, struggling and concerned about Kamala Harris’s popularity after she was nominated as the party’s candidate, began disparaging JD Vance as “weird,” despite him being perhaps the most normal politician in Washington. The man with a wife and children is considered bizarre, not the candidate and the party that believe children should be allowed to undergo sex changes. The party that wants to keep biological males out of women’s restrooms is labeled as the party of freaks. Undoubtedly, this perception is flawed.

“Mr. McBride should take a long, hard look in the mirror before re-evaluating what constitutes as weird and what does not.”