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Democrat Tulsi Gabbard Blasts Her Party For Removing Gendered Language: ‘The Height Of Hypocrisy’

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PORTSMOUTH, NH - FEBRUARY 09: Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) answers media questions following a campaign event on February 9, 2020 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The first in the nation primary is on Tuesday, February 11.
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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) slammed her party during an interview on Monday night over its recent decision to remove gendered language from the House of Representatives, calling the move hypocritical for the party that claims to care about women’s rights.

Gabbard made the remarks during an appearance on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” which comes after she recently created legislation that would ban biological men from competing in women’s sports.

When Carlson asked her how removing gendered language empowers women, Gabbard responded, “It absolutely does the very opposite of that and it’s the height of hypocrisy for people who claim to be the champions of rights for women to deny the very biological existence of women and and this recent rule change that the House just actually voted and passed on today that you were talking about removing references to you know mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, from congressional rules and administration, it’s mind-blowing because it shows just how out of touch with reality and the struggles of everyday Americans people in Congress are.”

“But also, it shows that you know their first act as as this new congress could have been to make sure that elderly Americans are able to get the COVID vaccine now alongside frontline healthcare workers, elderly Americans who have the highest mortality rates from this virus, but instead of doing something that could actually help save people’s lives, they’re choosing instead to say well you can’t say mother or father in any of this congressional language,” she continued. “It’s astounding.”

Gabbard noted that what the political Left is attempting to do “defies common sense” and “defies basic established science.”

WATCH:

PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT:

TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS HOST: So bad news for Joe Biden tonight. You may remember that Biden was a big backer of the Violence Against Women Act. Biden told us he was doing this to protect women but now we learn that it’s an act of hostility against women to acknowledge that women exist, it’s deep sexism. The word women is itself an offense against women, assuming women is an actual category. We just learned that, over the weekend Democrats voted to ban gendered language in-house rules, that means no more terms like father or mother, just incase you’re wondering where they stand on the family, that also means terms like women and men are out, that’s where they are on biology and for good measure, brother and sister and first cousin are also banned.

On Sunday, Democrats celebrated the move using the handful of words they have left us in the English language. … What’s interesting is that almost everybody now sitting in the House of Representatives is violating these new rules and no one more flagrantly that a member of congress and part-time preacher called Emanuel Cleaver, he did it just yesterday when he led the House in prayer, watch.

[BEGIN VIDEO]

REP. EMANUEL CLEAVER (D-TX): Peace even in this chamber, now and evermore, we ask it in the name of the monotheistic god brahma and god known by many names by many different faiths amen and awoman.

[END VIDEO]

CARLSON: Amen and awoman. So, if you thought amen was an ancient affirmation that had nothing at all to do with biological sex, stand corrected how does this empower women exactly? That’s a question that Tulsi Gabbard who is a former congresswoman from Hawaii, a Democrat, has been pondering. She introduced a bill last year to stop biological males participating in women’s sports. That bill is expected to be introduced later this month and we said former and we didn’t mean it because until January 20th she still serves and we’re thankful for that. Congresswoman thanks for joining us tonight. So how does it empower women to ban the acknowledgement that women exist?

REP. TULSI GABBARD (D-HI): It absolutely does the very opposite of that and it’s the height of hypocrisy for people who claim to be the champions of rights for women to deny the very biological existence of women and and this recent rule change that the House just actually voted and passed on today that you were talking about removing references to you know mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, from congressional rules and administration, it’s mind-blowing because it shows just how out of touch with reality and the struggles of everyday Americans people in Congress are. But also, it shows that you know their first act as as this new congress could have been to make sure that elderly Americans are able to get the COVID vaccine now alongside frontline healthcare workers, elderly Americans who have the highest mortality rates from this virus, but instead of doing something that could actually help save people’s lives, they’re choosing instead to say well you can’t say mother or father in any of this congressional language. It’s astounding.

CARLSON: It’s confusing too because the very people who claim to celebrate diversity, differences, and differences are what make the world interesting and worth living-in in my opinion, are the same ones trying to impose by force this creepy corporate sameness where we’re all sort of widgets in a bin waiting for assembly, like do they really think there aren’t differences between the sexes? Honestly, sincere question.

GABBARD: I don’t know how to answer or explain what they think and this is why congressman Mark Wayne Mullen and I, we introduced my legislation the Protect Women’s Sports Act that you briefly mentioned out of a recognition that this legislation is actually necessary when you look at why Title IX was created, it was created out of this recognition that there is a biological distinction between men and women and boys and girls and it recognized that because of that there needs to be a level playing field for girls and women to be able to compete and play in sports. Now the reason why our bill is necessary to strengthen and clarify and uphold Title IX is because of the things that you’re talking about, because there are people who are trying to undermine the very place by denying my existence, denying the existence of of biological women. It defies common sense, it defies basic established science. It just doesn’t make any sense.

CARLSON: No wonder they called you a Russian spy, it was dangerous having you in the Democratic Party. I’m sorry you’re leaving. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, it’s great to see you tonight.

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