Speaker Pelosi Seeks To Ban Gendered Terms Like ‘Mother’ and ‘Father’ in 117th Congress Rules
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been busy at work this holiday season after unveiling to the 117th Congress on Friday a new set of rules which contained “Future-Focused” proposals including the elimination of gendered terms like “father, mother, son and daughter.”
The House Rules Committee released a statement claiming the changes would make the 117th Congress the, “most inclusive in history.”
The full statement issued from the House Committee on Rules can be read here.
Speaker Pelosi added that, ““These future-focused proposals reflect our priorities as a Caucus and as a Country.”
If passed the proposals would create a “Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth,” which would require Congress to “honor all gender identities by changing pronouns and familial relationships in the House rules to be gender neutral.”
In clause 8(c)(3) of rule XXIII, gendered terms, such as “father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, half sister, grandson, or granddaughter” would be removed.
In their place, terms such as “parent, child, sibling, parent’s sibling, first cousin, sibling’s child, spouse, parent-in-law, child-in-law, sibling-in-law, stepparent, stepchild, stepsibling, half-sibling, or grandchild” will be used, instead.
Immediately after the announcement from Speaker Pelosi and the Committee on Rules became public, Twitter erupted with tweets about it. Several of the most popular reactions are embedded below:
Democrat Members of Congress struggled to maintain their majority in 2020 due largely to calls to “Defund the Police” and enact farther left socialist policies, however based on these new rules, Speaker Pelosi does not appear to have any intentions of governing a more moderate House of Representatives in 2021.
