Both of New Hampshire’s members of Congress have signed on as cosponsors of HR1585. Titled the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019 it would require prisons to accept inmates based on their gender identity while women’s domestic violence shelters would have to allow men if they identify as women.
Women who are victims of domestic violence would have to share recovery space with biological men.
Shelters that refuse the demands would not qualify for federal funding. HB1585 defunds them.
But Wait, there’s More!
These are not the only left-wing easter eggs buried in the reauthorization. Judicial Watch reports that,
Housing programs require mortgagors to require eviction prevention by including protection for “criminal activity.” It also mandates that no person may deny tenancy or occupancy solely on the basis of criminal activity, including drug-related offenses. New gun provisions include a requirement that firearms be relinquished based on a broad definition of an “order” without notifying the accused. Felony convictions are not required to relinquish firearms under the bill and guns can be confiscated based on any “protective” order, which can come from divorce proceedings or include temporary or consent orders. New employment standards expand labor laws to include victim service providers and unemployment compensation for “victims.” It also requires employers to allow anyone who identifies as a victim to leave work and forces employers to continue to pay the said victim’s salary.
It’s a Democrat Dumpster fire loaded with left-wing garbage. But none of that seems as bad as the first point. The violence against women reauthorization act is more interested in redefining what a woman is than in protecting actual women from abuse. And it would make it harder, if not impossible, for women with the most need to find shelter from men.
A Republican congresswoman from Arizona is trying to eliminate that provision from the bill. Her name is Debbie Lesko, a survivor of domestic violence, and she believes it’s wrong to force women’s shelters to take in men. “If this is called the Violence Against Women Act, it is not fair that the government is forcing these organizations to take in biological males to be sleeping right next to biological women,” Lesko said in a recent news report. “I don’t think that’s fair to the women.”
The Democrat response is that these “men” are “women” (you bigot!).
Take of a survey of victims of domestic abuse and let me know if they agree with you. I’m guessing not.
But if you ask Pappas and Kuster about their support who wants to bet they say they are proud sponsors?
Corrected the title: An earlier version said transgender men when it should have read transgender women.
