Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, a Democrat, recently introduced a budget recommendation that changes the word “mother” to “inseminated person,” and “paternity” to “parentage” in some official government documents and portions of state law.
The Evers administration’s budget recommendation for the 2025-2027 fiscal period calls for a number of additional “gendered” terms to be retired as well. References to “wife” or “husband” were changed to “spouse” in the proposal, while the word “father” is changed to “parent,” and “mother” is swapped out for the phrase “parent who gave birth to the child,” Fox News reported.
The budget was introduced by the state Senate’s Joint Committee on Finance this past Tuesday.
The head-scratching changes have been widely ridiculed on social media, with Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) referring to the proposal as a “red flag.”
In a sharp rebuke, parental rights in eduction activist Scarlett Johnson excoriated the Democrat governor for attempting to “erase” mothers and family values. “Instead of using the word mother, he crossed out mother and put persons who are inseminated, persons who can be inseminated, or person who gave birth, parent who gave birth, anything but say mother, woman. Those are words he can’t say because the woke won’t let him. Folks won’t let us define what a woman is,” Johnson said in a video statement. […]
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