As I See It
Changing wording a dishonest political trick
vHis budget bill changes existing terminology to be more gender neutral, like “mother” to inseminated person, father to parent, and so on.
He claims this is about IVF, and he’s using that as a cover, but don’t be fooled.
Wisconsin law [statute 13.92(1)(b)] gives the Legislative Reference Bureau Reviser Authority, which authorizes them to make editorial changes to existing state statutes to ensure the consistency of laws…he sneaks this into law that LBR could rewrite mother to inseminated person and make all his other radical changes in existing state statutes.
This isn’t about healthcare. It’s about pushing an ideology and doing it under the radar using bureaucratic loopholes without legislative approval.
Governor Evers, these dirty tricks are not values of Wisconsinites, and they’re certainly not in the best interest of democracy.
As I see it, I’m Andy Parish.
Walden
February 28, 2025 at 9:56 am
Good work Andy. What you describe is worse than I expected. My fear was that if Evers proposed language survived in the budget, it would then be metastized by Evers’ agencies throughout state administrative documents…grant applications, Public Schools, etc. What you have uncovered is a potential wholesale re-write of actual statutes replacing such terms as “mother” with “inseminated person”.
Evers explanation for needing to eliminate terms such as “mother”, as echoed by Rep Billings, didn’t “add up.” Now we know the rest of the story, thanks again.
Roy
February 28, 2025 at 12:35 pm
This nonsense is the work of the left-wing feminists of the Democrat Party who attempt to make married women and mothers a distinct minority by modifying the blessed event of motherhood with clinical terms. This, of course, reinforces their efforts to dehumanize unborn children into just another medical procedure that needs to be decided upon by the affected woman only, Health Care, you know.
And these women, many of them unmarried, childless “cat Ladies” are then elevated into the mainstream as they wile away their strange life.
Andy Parrish
February 28, 2025 at 12:35 pm
Thanks Walden! It took me several days to figure out why the Governor said this is needed, but no other state seems to need it. Pretty simple once the LBR gets it, they re-write similar laws so the language remains consistent (just couldn’t fit that into one minute).
Wisconsin Statutes § 13.92(1)(bm)
“13. Shall, whenever any statute is affected by any act of the legislature, and may, at the bureau’s discretion, ensure that the statutory language does not discriminate on the basis of sex by making the following corrections, which shall have no substantive effect:
13.92(1)(bm)13.a.
a. Delete any masculine or feminine pronoun or adjective, except where the statute clearly applies to one sex only, and replace it, if necessary, with terminology which does not discriminate on the basis of sex.
b. Replace words of male or female gender, such as man, wife and widow, with terms such as person, spouse and surviving spouse, except where the statute clearly applies to one sex only.
c. Make other corrections to remove from the statutes or to replace terminology which discriminates on the basis of sex.”