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
    861·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • circasurvivor@lemm.ee
      20·
      10 months ago

      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
      71·
      10 months ago

      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

  • dudinax@programming.dev
    8211·
    10 months ago

    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
      471·
      10 months ago

      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
        221·
        10 months ago

        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
        313·
        10 months ago

        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
      301·
      10 months ago

      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·
            10 months ago

            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?

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    9 months ago

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

    I wonder why Rafael Cruz is so bothered by this?

  • OtakuAltair@lemm.eeEnglish
    161·
    10 months ago

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

  • Kalkaline @leminal.space
    6·
    10 months ago

    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
      51·
      10 months ago

      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.

  • rainynight65@feddit.de
    4·
    10 months ago

    Noting that he wants this to apply only to trans people, where the name or pronoun are ‘incompatible with the person’s sex’.

    That leaves himself nicely and neatly out of scope for a bill like this.