Governor's proposal to scrub gender specific terms from state laws ignites debate

The real War on Women is ramping up, and ground zero may be in the state of Wisconsin.

Democrat Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has come under heavy fire for proposing that gender specific terms be scrubbed from state laws.

Replacing the word “mother” with “inseminated person” drew the most backlash when the proposal first started to make the rounds on X.

WTF is going on in Wisconsin pic.twitter.com/bGTzWWmvY1

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 25, 2025

Despite immense backlash, it doesn’t appear that Wisconsin Dems have backed away from the proposal, and Jay Richards, director of the DeVos Center for Life Religion and Family is warning the push to remove reality from law is part of a bigger “ideological campaign.”

“If somebody says these kinds of word changes are not a big deal, I always say, ‘OK, then why are you trying to do it?’ …. Clearly, somebody thinks it’s a big deal, or they would not have bothered to actually do it,” Richards told Fox News Digital.

Richards argued that the erasure of factual language feeds into the most “perverse’ outcome of gender ideology where children grow up believing they’re in the “wrong body.”

“In other words, their self and their body are these two fundamentally different things, and so if they feel discomfort with their body, rather than learning to become satisfied and content with their body, they imagine that through drugs and surgery, they can transform their body to conform to some kind of internal idea,” he said. “That, to me, is the most toxic aspect of gender ideology because it essentially alienates children from the bodies that God has given them.”

Not everyone sees it that way, and some are defending Evers’ proposal to erase “mother” and other gender specific terms.

“Our Constitution doesn’t just guarantee liberty, it actually guarantees the pursuit of happiness, which is self-expression, which is allowing people to identify how they feel,” she said. “It is inherently part of the freedom of our country to have more openness and inclusiveness, and it’s very alarming in this political era, to see a backlash against that,” Laura Dunn, a civil and victims’ rights attorney, said according to Fox.

Dunn argued that younger generations are “feeling more free to express gender identity” but are simultaneously “under attack.”

Dunn is far from alone in her way of thinking as women’s rights activist and athlete Riley Gaines noted about a recent bill designed to protect females in women’s sports, which was shot down by Senate Dems.

45 Democratic Senators voted NO on Protecting Women & Girls in Sports.

Never, ever let them gaslight you into thinking Democrats care about ‘women’s rights’… pic.twitter.com/I1IyApksIH

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) March 4, 2025