Ted Cruz introduces bill to limit using preferred names, pronouns
www.expressnews.com
Sen. Rafael Edward Cruz, who goes by Ted, takes aim at the use of trans people's preferred pronouns and names with the Safeguarding Honest Speech Act.

Sen. Ted Cruz has introduced a bill that would limit the use of preferred names by trans people.
The irony, critics point out? The senator, whose legal name is Rafael Edward Cruz, uses a preferred name himself: Ted.

  • penquin@lemm.ee
    238·
    1년 전

    Wow, now THAT will solve most of our country’s problems, right, y’all? Fucking piece of shit useless mother fucker. I hate his weasly voice.

    • Riccosuave@lemmy.world
      39·
      1년 전

      He’s the kinda guy that leaves his tube socks on and pulls his pecker out of his whitey tighties before fucking his wife with the lights off.

    • circasurvivor@lemm.ee
      34·
      1년 전

      The majority of people who support and parrot shit like this aren’t even doing it because they think it’s somehow good for the country, they just think it’s something that needs to be fixed because some ignorant piece of shit on FOX News or the like told them it was bad, and we should all be mad about it.

      I can’t imagine being so fucking bored and miserable with my life, that the sheer THOUGHT of someone else being happy and comfortable… or even just not sad and miserable in their own life, that I’d feel obligated to dedicate what precious time I have on this earth to ruining everything for everyone.

      I agree with you - Ted Cruz is an absolute piece of shit, but the people who feel driven to support these types of policies and bills etc. are truly vile human beings.

    • KeriKitty (They(/It))@pawb.socialEnglish
      21·
      1년 전

      Am loving the energy in this post! It’s so tiring that this shit is what passes for politics around here. Like half’ the fucking country seriously thinks kicking us is a worthy focus for the whole damn government? Really? REALLY? Let’s just stop and have a vote on how much we all hate those people for existing! That’ll make something better, won’t it? … Now here I am getting worked up too. Bleh. Of course those people have no concept of “better,” only hurting people they hate.

      “I hate his voice” tacked onto the end there is kinda hilarious though 🤣

      Also the initialism for the act’s name is SHSA which reminds me that “SHSR” is the IBM->HAL thing (letter-position-decrement?) for “TITS.” So I guess this bill is about TITB? … Nevermind, I’ll show myself out :P

    • diannetea@lemmy.world
      15·
      1년 전

      Him eating his booger on the debate stage still makes me gag uncontrollably if I see the clip, and if it pops into my head sometimes I’ll start gagging, which is pretty much every time I see his name

      There are very few things that make me gag in disgust, this one gets me every time

    • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
      84·
      1년 전

      Step 1: Pick an issue that is divisive*

      Step 2: Boost it with stories about how bad the people on the wrong side are: won’t someone think of the children?

      Step 3: Watch the outrage donations roll on in

      It’s a playbook as old as time.

      *Some people might call it divisive because one side is like “let’s all become crabs and live in the ocean” vs the other side that’s like “no let’s continue using our opposable thumbs”. But who am I to label whether one side is right and the other wrong?

    • d-RLY?@lemmy.ml
      4·
      1년 전

      I think it is due to it not really being any loss for them if they fail to get something like that passed. It serves the purpose of the cheap “pops” of “sticking it to them libs”, and if it passes then that is just a bonus. The whole point is like so many really stupid laws that “look/feel” like something was done but actually just wasted time or makes things just more annoying. So they are “seen” to be “fighting” the other team. Where as if they were to actually push something that requires real functional effort or could lead to massive loss of seats. They would then be seen as big losers and seen as the ego trippers that they really are. It is honestly shit that should just lead to them being put against a wall for all the intentional fucking around they are doing.

  • dudinax@programming.dev
    86·
    1년 전

    Everyone should start calling Cruz “she”/“her” and when she complains, tell her she’s not allowed to use her preferred pronouns.

    • Enma Ai@lemmy.world
      49·
      1년 전

      This is not a good thing.

      1. It shows people it’s okay to misgender someone you don’t like

      2. It won’t feel bad for him. For him it’s a joke that doesn’t do any harm. For trans people getting misgendered is life and can deeply hurt

      • agnomeunknown@lemmy.world
        23·
        1년 전

        It also semi consciously feeds into the misogynistic trope of calling/implying that men are feminine as an insult. It’s just a bad look all around

      • dudinax@programming.dev
        3·
        1년 전

        It’s not as a joke, I’m serious. The implication is that he’s a trans-man and should have to prove otherwise to every individual he meets if he wants to use his preferred pronouns. Let Cruz eat his own dog food.

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
      30·
      1년 전

      Better to keep referring to he/him by he/his preferred pronouns, but just hammer in the point that he/him is using pronouns you keep saying both every time.

      He/him being reminded of it every time is much worse, and doesn’t invalidate trans peoples pronouns.

          • Zorg@lemmings.world
            6·
            1년 전

            The allegedly human male senator, who itself has chosen to be addressed by the preferred name “Ted”, but looking at the Senate records its name is actually, legally, Rafael Edward Cruz. Would the, allegedly human senator, them self care to explain?

  • QHC@lemmy.world
    62·
    1년 전

    How could this possibly be ruled as Constitutional? Let alone any remaining shadow of ‘party of small government’ irony, that shipped sailed into the West a long, long time ago.

    • Pizzasgood@kbin.social
      44·
      1년 전

      The article’s title presents this in a misleading way. The bill in question wouldn’t prevent people from using their preferred names and pronouns. What it would do is prohibit the government from spending federal funds to implement or enforce any rules or recommendations encouraging its employees and contractors to respect those names and pronouns.

      So in other words this is an attempt at protecting hate-speech, not at restricting free-speech. Shitty, but probably not unconstitutional.

      • CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.netEnglish
        10·
        1년 전

        No word from Rafael yet on whether he thinks enforcing preferred names if how the Pentagon lost 6 trillion dollars

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      1년 전

      They never meant that “small government” thing; they were just chapped that the feds interfered with their racist bullshit at the state level.

  • Kalkaline @leminal.space
    29·
    1년 전

    Hey Texas, Collin Allred is going up against Rafael Cruz. You don’t have to vote for the status quo, you could shake it up and put someone in there who isn’t a complete shit-bag.

    • spaceghoti@lemmy.one
      15·
      1년 전

      You don’t have to vote for the status quo, you could shake it up and put someone in there who isn’t a complete shit-bag.

      But that’s not how Texas does things. They only make things worse and call it freedom.

    • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
      44·
      1년 전

      I’ve always liked Wilhoit’s Law: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

  • OtakuAltair@lemm.eeEnglish
    19·
    1년 전

    This is what’s important of course. No need to do anything about the genocide they’re funding.

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1년 전

    Weird how Rafael Cruz is so upset over people using different names.

    I wonder why Rafael Cruz is so bothered by this?