Jordan Peterson Saying 'Trans Women Are Men' Sparks Furor
tweeted on Sunday.The comment was posted as a caption on a retweet of a CNN article about changes to Kansas state laws that would require that people's driver's licenses and birth certificates reflect the gender they were assigned at birth.The change "requires the Kansas Department of Revenue to list individuals' biological sex at birth on driver's licenses," according to Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach.Stacy Lentz a co-owner of the historic Stonewall Inn in New York City, slammed Peterson's comments as "false information.""It's crazy with all this anti-trans stuff out there, but it's how a person identifies [that defines their gender identity] and that's the end of the story," Lentz told Newsweek. "So a trans woman is a woman and a trans man is a man and that's what most of our community feels."In a press release, Kobach said: "State records must be accurate and reflect the truth as defined in state law.
A birth certificate is a record of what happened at the moment a baby came out of the womb. That baby weighed a specific amount and was a specific sex.
Similarly, a driver's license is a state document reflecting a state database for state purposes. It is not a canvas on which a person can paint one's expression and preferences."Barb Wasinger, a Republican state representative, said: "Women are being erased in the record books.
