With just a few days left before the Illinois General Assembly is scheduled to adjourn for the summer, we want to again alert you to a disturbing piece of legislation pending in Springfield. HB 1785 is a highly controversial proposal that would make it significantly easier for gender-dysphoric persons to obtain fraudulent birth certificates.
This legislation seemed to stall since passing out of committee two months ago, but the sponsor, State Representative Greg Harris (D-Chicago) continues to work to gain the support he needs to pass this duplicitous bill. It now has twenty co-sponsors:
State Representatives Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago), Barbara Flynn Currie (D-Chicago), Will Guzzardi (D-Chicago) Emanuel Chris Welch (D-Chicago), Sam Yingling (D-Round Lake Beach), Cynthia Soto (D-Chicago), La Shawn Ford (D-Oak Park), Silvana Tabares (D-Chicago), Ann Williams (D-Chicago), Carol Ammons (D-Champaign), Robyn Gabel (D-Chicago), Litesa Wallace (D-Rockford), Sara Feigenholtz (D-Chicago), Theresa Mah (D-Chicago), Lou Lang (D-Skokie), Laura Fine (D-Glenview), Juliana Stratton (D-Chicago), Christian Mitchell (D-Chicago), Linda Chapa LaVia (D-Aurora) and Sonya Harper (D-Chicago).
Unfortunately, a surprisingly large number of state lawmakers — both Republican and Democrat — are unsure how they will vote on this consequential legislation. It is extremely important that you let your state representative hear from you on this issue as soon as possible. HB 1785 is on third reading in the Illinois House, which means it can be called at anytime over the next week for a vote.
Take ACTION: Click HERE to send an email message to your state representative to ask him/her to reject HB 1785 and to uphold birth certificates as legal documents. Calls are even more effective. Click HERE to find your state representative. He/she will be the last one in the list. Click his/her name for their Springfield and district phone numbers. Please email and call today!
The state of Illinois has no duty or right to make it easier for men and women who wish they were the opposite sex to falsify their birth certificates.
Background
IFI’s Laurie Higgins wrote an article earlier this year about HB 1785. Here is a quick summary of Laurie’s take:
The absurdity and unscientific nature of the content of [H.B.—–] reveals the absurdity of the law it seeks to amend. This bill proposes to change a reference in the law from “sex change” to “change of sex designation.”
First, this change implicitly acknowledges the true fact that no one’s sex can change. Second, it demonstrates that birth certificates are being rendered meaningless. Birth certificates were intended as legal documents identifying objective birth facts. Gender-dysphoric men who were male at birth remain male. Gender-dysphoric women who were female at birth remain in perpetuity female.
“This is what our elected representatives waste their time and our taxes on,” Higgins writes, “making it ever easier for gender-dysphoric persons to pretend they are the opposite sex.”
There are many more issues related to this effort, and you can read more from Laurie Higgins here and here, and a fact-sheet titled “The Face of Gender Radicalism” here.
Again, legislators can be swamped with information — especially at this time of the year when more bills come to the floor for a vote. But your voice and action may be absolutely vital in persuading him/her to vote NO on Birth Certificate Fraud!
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