{"id":20956,"date":"2024-08-12T10:07:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T17:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=20956"},"modified":"2024-08-12T10:07:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T17:07:32","slug":"no-more-mother-no-more-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/08\/12\/no-more-mother-no-more-father\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Mother, No More Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5585\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/queering-reality.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The blurring of the lines between men and women has long come in the form of denying any distinction and indeed any <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/06\/08\/queering-humpty-dumpty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">distinction<\/a> of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2013\/12\/10\/genders-genders-everywhere-or-any-lgbtq-to-be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gender<\/a>\u201d or mandated \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2012\/12\/18\/the-abolition-of-gender-in-sweden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gender<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/10\/17\/purple-penguins-and-the-abolition-of-gender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">neutral<\/a>\u201d ideology. \u00a0 This has spread to a general assault of the English language and the very concept of \u201cfather\u201d and \u201cmother\u201d around <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2018\/06\/20\/legally-motherless-in-britain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the world<\/a>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/06\/29\/biological-reality-is-now-unconstitutional\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the courts<\/a>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/09\/03\/mother-and-father-purged-from-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Left-wing states<\/a>, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/01\/05\/gender-madness-in-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congress<\/a>. \u00a0 Now, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will replace the terms \u201cmother\u201d and \u201cfather\u201d on birth certificates to, respectively, \u201cperson who gave birth\u201d and \u201cother parent\u201d, respectively. <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/193\/H4970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill H.4970 (2024)<\/a> also changes \u201cchild born out of wedlock\u201d to the more innocuous \u201cnonmarital child\u201d, and abolished paternity as a concept distinct from maternity\u2014which is consistent with reality and experience\u2014with the more generic \u201cparentage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The gender neutral wording is an unnatural usage and completely at odds with the difference of determining <em>paternity<\/em> and <em>maternity<\/em> in order to pretend that determining <em>parentage<\/em> is the same regardless of the gender\/sex of the parent! The bill itself is primarily a series of substitutions and a creating of new gender neutral terms to replace centuries of what had been obvious.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The final bill as approved and sent to the Governor can be read <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/193\/H4970.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, or below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"Massachusetts H4970 (2024)\" align=\"center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/756484305\/content?start_page=1&#038;view_mode=scroll&#038;access_key=key-HPMlszkt6vTMsDRHBEIR\" tabindex=\"0\" data-auto-height=\"true\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p  style=\"   margin: 12px auto 6px auto;   font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;   font-style: normal;   font-variant: normal;   font-weight: normal;   font-size: 14px;   line-height: normal;   font-size-adjust: none;   font-stretch: normal;   -x-system-font: none;   display: block;\"   ><a title=\"View Massachusetts H4970 (2024) on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/756484305\/Massachusetts-H4970-2024#from_embed\"  style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Massachusetts H4970 (2024)<\/a> by <a title=\"View ThePoliticalHat's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/188606198\/ThePoliticalHat#from_embed\"  style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ThePoliticalHat<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"No More Mother, No More Father\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The blurring of the lines between men and women has long come in the form of denying any distinction and indeed any distinction of 'gender' or mandated 'gender neutral' ideology.  This has spread to a general assault of the English language and the very concept of 'father' and 'mother around the world, in the courts, in Left-wing states, and even Congress.  Now, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will replace the terms 'mother' and 'father' on birth certificates to, respectively, 'person who gave birth; and 'other parent', respectively.  Bill H.4970  (2024) also changes 'child born out of wedlock' to the more innocuous 'nonmarital child', and abolished paternity as a concept distinct from maternity\u2014which is consistent with reality and experience\u2014with the more generic 'parentage.'\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/queering-reality.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The blurring of the lines between men and women has long come in the form of denying any distinction and indeed any distinction of \u201cgender\u201d or mandated \u201cgender neutral\u201d ideology. \u00a0 This has spread to a general assault of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2024\/08\/12\/no-more-mother-no-more-father\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[15,55,48],"class_list":["post-20956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-democrats","tag-gender","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20957,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20956\/revisions\/20957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}