"My bill doesn't ban anyone from saying anything. The First Amendment allows you to call me 'Ted,' 'Rafael,' 'a wacko bird,' or whatever else you want," he tweeted. "Rather, my bill prohibits the federal government from FORCING anyone to use preferred pronouns or names. IE, it would ban the government from compelling you to call me 'Ted.'" Outstanding work! Wellllll...I think this former teenage pervert (maybe he grew out of it, maybe he got darker!?!) needs some new nicknames. The floor is open:
Cancun Cruz is my favorite. Since his bill wouldn’t compel people to call him “Ted” Howabout “Runnin Away Rafael”
I've met only a handful of transgender people in my life, and only 1 is someone I'll see on some frequency, one of my wife’s cousins. Why the **** do you “libertarian” weirdos care about this **** so much?
I'm pretty sure there was never any risk that the federal government was going to force me to use preferred pronouns. However, I have this complaint about woke teenagers today. My kids have a swirling array of friendships and some of these friends have abandoned their birth names and adopted new ones, so I'm supposed to know the birth names to talk to the parent and the new name to talk to the kid. Then the little twerp will up and change their new name to a new new name, and of course my kids are very conscientious about adopting the new name. But then I don't know if this person they are talking about is a new friend or an old friend with a new name. Calling them "they" isn't making it any easier either. And they aren't my friends, so I'm not invested enough to care about whatever emotional tempest caused the latest name change. I just want some stability so that if there's a car wreck I'll know which parent to call. And stay off my lawn!
Even if it bothers you, it's so insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Why spend so many calories xmcrying about it?
This is how I handle it - you don't need to know names if you do it like this. You would think I barely knew my kids name if you heard me - a confident and loud "Hey you" always works. I have had to stop saying "maam" and "sir" though because I had a man flip out on me when I was paying for a new refrigerator because I answered his question with "yes sir" - I just stared at him, told him he was wearing masculine clothes and was born with a penis, so I assumed he wanted to be referred to as a man. He told me I should never assume someone's gender - I told him I wouldn't use the term but he needed to calm down because someday someone would rip his skull off and use it as a cereal bowl.
