A once-bipartisan proposal to establish the location of a women’s history museum failed when lawmakers could not define a woman.
According toABC News, House Democrats rejected the bill on Thursday after Republicans amended its language to ensure that the new Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum recognized only biological women — in other words, women.
Had it passed, the bill would have located the new museum on the National Mall.
Instead, the amended language led to a partisan battle in which Democrats, joined by some Republicans, defeated the bill, 216-204.
“The Museum shall be dedicated to preserving, researching, and presenting the history, achievements, and lived experiences of biological women in the United States,” the amended version read in part.
Also in the amended version, the Republicans added that the “Museum may not identify, present, describe, or otherwise depict any biological male as a female.”
“It was a simple bill. You kind of ruined it with yourtrans obsessionand your culture wars,” Democratic Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez of New Mexico, chair of the Democratic Women’s Caucus, said earlier this week.
However, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican from New York, the bill’s chief sponsor, called Democrats’ opposition a “disgrace.”
“Perhaps the party that is opposing a women’s history museum on the National Mall because they want to havetransgenderexhibits — maybe they are the ones who are trans obsessed,” Malliotakis said.
The New York lawmaker also called it “ridiculous that we are arguing over this.”
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