After announcing he won’t seek a third term, uber liberal Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers — the palest man in politics — looks like he’s preparing to burn the mother down.
As the MacIver Institute reported this week, Evers is using his recently expanded power to erase mothers and motherhood via trans-agenda friendly language in state Department of Health Services programs.
The Evers administration’s Clearinghouse Rule 25-004 redefines, among other gender-specific terms, “pregnant women” as “pregnant persons” in a forced new administrative rule. The language swap trades “Pregnant woman” for “pregnant member(s).”
“This rule makes it crystal clear: in the Evers-Rodriguez administration, motherhood isn’t respected — it’s mocked,” Rep. Amanda Nedweski, a southeast Wisconsin Republican, said in a statement. “Once again, Wisconsin moms are being pushed to the side, all to advance a fringe political platform. The fact that our state’s so-called ‘public health experts’ continue to push the unscientific fantasy that men can become pregnant is nothing short of embarrassing. It’s an insult to women everywhere and a blatant rejection of basic biology.”
Republican state Rep. Clint Moses, chairman of the Assembly Committee on Health, Aging, and Long-Term Care, held a hearing on the controversial proposed rule this week. The Department of Health Services didn’t bother to show up to explain why the administration deemed the woke changes necessary.
‘Radical Gender Agenda’
DHS and other Evers’ state agencies are free to do what they want. In July, the leftist-led Wisconsin Supreme Court shut down the Republican-controlled legislature’s power to at least temporarily block administrative rules.
“Fresh off of the State Supreme Court’s ruling that strips state lawmakers of their oversight ability of administrative rules, the Evers-Rodriguez administration is using their newfound power to enact their radical gender agenda through the rulemaking process without legislative approval,” Nedweski added.
The lawmaker noted Evers’ proposed state budget this year that demanded portions of state law refer to mothers as “inseminated persons” or “parent who gave birth to the child.” Removed from the budget by majority Republicans in the legislature, the proposal made Wisconsin the butt of a litany of woke jokes.
Dads suffer a similar fate in the new rule. The term “father” will be replaced with “other parent.”
Tony’s Parting Shots?
Since first winning the governor’s race in 2018, the former longtime public school educrat has been the vessel of the far-left agenda. With leftists firmly in control of the state’s court of last resort for the foreseeable future, Evers could go out with a leftist bang. He’s got nothing to lose.
So don’t be surprised if the Pale Rider:
› Signs a proclamation declaring Che Guevara Wisconsin’s official State Communist.
› Issues an executive order designating February as Take a Criminal Illegal Alien to Work Month.
› Establishes a “Gender-Affirming Care” wing at the State Capitol, with “Testicle Tuesday” (20% of orchiectomies) and 24/7 unisex high school showers.
› Changes the state flag to incorporate the short-lived Cracker Barrel logo.
› Directs deer-hunting license revenue go to fund a fleet of creepy 1974 Chevy vans to serve as mobile abortion-on-demand units.
› Orders the Milwaukee Brewers to change their name to the Anti-Racists. And mandates Bernie Brewer go through six weeks of intensive diversity, equity, and inclusion training — with at least one session on “Stormin’” Gorman Thomas‘ toxic masculinity moustache.
› Makes “Zuckbucks” Wisconsin’s official currency.
› Issues an order requiring that all state public libraries be staffed by drag queens.
› Closes all state prisons and designates them “safe spaces” for BIPOC communities and Penzeys spice outlet malls.
› Requires all state employees to describe Gov. Tony Evers slacks as “The Home of the Whopper.”
Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
