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Last year, Americans elected not only the president of the country, but many more representatives of the national and state government. And the local LGBT community is happy that more gay, lesbian or other gender or non-traditional candidates have come to power in the elections.
An organization raises money and supports financially and otherwise non-traditionally oriented people running for election. She says she endorsed more than 300 candidates in last year’s election and celebrated 200 victories. With the exception of a single gay Republican and several independent candidates, all supported candidates belong to the Democratic Party.
With the growing number of non-traditional politicians in power, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, along with a fellow party member, announced a proposal on how to change the rules of Congress, a document in line with the Seimas Lithuanian. And the project also plans to change the concepts of relatives and relatives.
The current rules of Congress mention family members somewhere. For example, it is claimed that a politician cannot hire them as assistants. At the same time it defines and what is considered family members. This includes mother, father, son, daughter, husband, wife, and others. But now Democrats are proposing not to mention these descriptions in the rules and instead include words in the rules that don’t reflect a particular gender. Well, for example, write the word “parents” in the singular instead of mom or dad. Instead of husband or wife, use “spouse” when the English word does not indicate gender.
The presentation of the rules explains that the goal is to show respect for people who do not see themselves as either men or women. Various minority theories state that there are between 50 and 60 different epithets to describe gender identity.
“The whole western world is living in an era of culture wars, when the aggressively liberal left current is intensifying, trying to erase all the borders that say there are 56 socially constructed genders, etc., I don’t think so,” says Laurynas Kasčiūnas, member of the Seimas.
However, Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius, a Freedom Party MP who calls himself a professional homosexual, says such a proposal for the Democrats’ rules is important for minorities who feel invisible.
The Minister of Justice, representative of the Freedom Party, Evelina Dobrovolska, says that in the future it would be possible to consider changing the words used in the Lithuanian Seimas. However, other more important minority rights still need to be addressed first.
“Changing the concepts alone would certainly not solve the problem, if we talk about any vulnerable group, then, as long as we have those stereotypes, as long as we have a regulation or an application that allows the violation of human rights, the concepts alone, unfortunately , they wouldn’t change anything “from a systematic point of view,” says Justice Minister Evelina Dobrovolska.
“I’m not sure what is needed, it seems to me that in general, if we respect diversity, all kinds of people, there are all kinds of people, then that dictionary will naturally be very respectful,” says Aušrinė Armonaitė, president of the Party of freedom.
However, most MPs say they don’t understand those things.
“Some people are trying to say that here is the 21st century morality that we all need … I will answer that yes, if we think that there is a moral on Monday, there is another moral on Tuesday, and another on Wednesday, then, ¿ where we go? If there is morale, it is the same every day of the week, ”said Seimas member Laurynas Kasčiūnas.
“I think that in order not to offend groups in society, we really have to strive to eliminate certain words that are completely acceptable to us, I think we really do not do it, I think we still have to eliminate the insults,” says the Spokesperson of the Seimas. Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen.
“Is it offensive for someone who is a mother not to call him father, or how offended is he here? I don’t know, it’s strange to me, those things show me that people have serious problems and don’t seem to have anything to do, ”says Seimas member Aurelijus Veryga.
“Well, the world is completely crazy, hey, neither father nor mother, nor daughter, nor son are going to be able to use the names of what is happening here, listen where the world will stop when it will be, here we are going to the end of the world What is happening here, I don’t know ”, says Petras Gražulis, a member of the Seimas.
“It is unacceptable to me, yes, I am in favor of all the rights of homosexuals, of everything, but be good, do not confuse me with that, I am a gentleman, a mysterious or a gentleman, not some kind of neutral where anyone can think of Senior Gentville. This does not confuse me, giving full respect to your rights, but please do not touch my rights, I want to be named a man, with all masculine features, such as beard, bald, etc. “said Seimas member Eugenijus Gentvilas.
But even if someone in the future came up with the idea of copying the American decision, it wouldn’t be so easy due to linguistic differences. In Lithuanian, word suffixes describe gender, so after banning the words “mama” and “papa”, we should say father one and father two. Therefore, sexual minorities already use English terms. And consider that our language will have to change in the future.
“The gender-neutral term ‘parents’, which includes a man and a woman, ‘father’ refers to the male gender, it only shows that our common language is very strongly oriented towards the male gender, but our language is alive and changing , and “Many new words have appeared recently, which could deny that in the future we will find ways to speak in a way that is respectful of all groups in society,” says Seimas member Tomas Vytautas Raskevičius.
“I don’t know, it seems to me that perhaps the Language Inspectorate could suggest some wording because it has many resources. I’m joking, “says Aušrinė Armonaitė, the president of the Freedom Party.
According to Raskevičius, changing words and concepts to show respect for minorities is still a distant issue. He says that in Lithuania it is possible to show attention to people of different orientations, even by including examples of gays or lesbians in children’s textbooks.
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