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  Gender is not easy to define. But Republicans won't care if they snag a bunch of unintended people with their laws as long as they get to hate the gays.
context: why is everyone so focused on what a woman is and not what a man is? 
  - no one cares about transmen in mens sports
  - no hoopla over transmen in mens bathrooms
  -no fuss over drag kings doing story time >
  
  My theory is it's because transmen don't confront homophobic bros with uncomfortable feelings. >
  
  I have this running theory that all homophobia/transphobia are extensions of misogyny.
  In this theory transmen are harmless and ignorable because they will never be "real" men just women playing dress up (isn't that cute? pat, pat). >
  
  That's an interesting theory; you may have something there >
  
  OP is mostly right, I'm going to write a response to them. >
  
  One niggle I have with that is that bi women get attacked physically more often than lesbians. Straight male partners can treat bi women horribly, because they project and feel emasculated as men since "their woman" might choose another woman over them, they're losing to someone who "doesn't even have a dick". 
  Same goes for other way around, bi woman dating with a lesbian often runs into ugly stereotyping and paranoid suspicions.
  You can find statistics about this in reported crimes. >
  
  Havent they tried this before?
  I dont have sources, but I remember learning about it in college in the early 2000s. It had to do with a trans person marrying a cis person of a different gender. So the couple was a hetero couple, but the state tried to deny them a marriage certificate based on the trans person's assigned gender at birth.
  The end result, which I hope will be the same as this time around, was that the state could not come up with a consistent enough definition of gender that clearly divided people into a binary. Genitals can be ambiguous, chromosomes are not as simple as people think, etc.
  Maybe someone knows better what I am remembering. I want to say this happened in Texas. Please dont draw any conclusions from my fuzzy memory in the meantime. >
  
  They don't care about coming up with a consistent, coherent definition. They want to stoke hatred and violence. In fact, the longer that they can avoid arriving at some objective standard the better for them, because it keeps the terrified, hateful, vocal, violent lunatics terrified, hateful, vocal and violent. >
  
  Exactly. They think "they know it when they see it" and believe somehow that can and should be the law. >
  
  
  Verdin’s proposal mirrors one filed on Capitol Hill this spring and channels a line of questioning Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) led against Ketanji Brown Jackson during her nomination for the Supreme Court.
  
  Marsha Blackburn's "line of questioning" was a divisive, grandstanding stunt that sowed partisan discord on the subject exactly as intended. She handed the most obnoxious "gotcha" to her constituency to gleefully dish out every time a liberal mentioned the word "woman". My rightwing friends starting messaging me glib bullshit like, "If the current administration cannot define what a woman is, then how does Kamala Harris know she is one?" >
  
  Let’s get real here. None of these people ever cared about women’s sports. In fact most right-wingers don’t want their girls playing sports at all because they think it turns them into lesbians. That’s how dense these people are. They just repeat right-wing propaganda they hear. Ask them to explain it without any buzzwords and they can’t. 
  The right-wing wants gay men wiped off the face of the earth - they always have. There’s no worry about lesbians ‘grooming’ children. Their focus is 100% on gay men, and their angle is that gay men touch little kids. It needs to be called out nationally because this rhetoric is going to get innocent gay men killed. I couldn’t care less what happens to the right-wingers who spread these lies.
  I just wish the gay community would become a lot more angry and confrontational with these people. >
  
  And they're so stupid they think trans women are gay men. Totally different of course, but to the right, the same. >
  
  Exactly. 
  I don’t know if the gay community in general no longer cares or what…but as someone who came out very early, I still remember ACT UP & what other groups did. They were confrontational, they didn’t care if they got arrested, they didn’t care if they made other people uncomfortable or hurt their feelings. They got shit done. That energy is gone. We’re trying too hard now to be nice and go high when the Trump people go low. That’s not working. >
  
  as long as we are binding women with legal definition, can we do the same with men? i notice that there is never the same push to legally bind men.