27-02-2025
People Are Applauding A Wyoming Woman For Purposely Misgendering A State Senator To Prove A Point About An Anti-Trans Bill
A slew of new anti-trans legislation is making headway across the country, including in the Wyoming State Legislature.
Wyoming legislators introduced HB0032, called the What is a Woman Act, which defines terms like "man" and "woman" as strictly cisgender. There's also State File 007, a bill proposing that state employees not be required to use a colleague's preferred pronouns. It asserts that "compelled speech is not free speech."
At a meeting of the Wyoming Senate Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources committee last Friday, Wyoming resident Britt Boril joined via Zoom call to express her disapproval of the legislation and casually stole the show. @ posted it to TikTok, where it's been viewed over 2 million times.
State Senator Tim French, a Republican and cisgender man, called on Boril to speak.
She says, "Hello. Thank you, Madam Chairman." She continues but is cut off by French.
"You can call me Mister Chairman if you want," he interrupts.
"Well, I cannot be compelled to use your preferred pronouns, as you have all voted to allow," Boril says.
Senator French replies, "Wait a minute, we're talking about preferred pronouns. A lot of people are. I prefer to be called Chairman French. That's my preferred pronoun."
"I know," Boril tells him, "and you all voted that preferred pronouns cannot be 'compelled' speech in SF0077. Anyway, my name is Britt Boril, and I'm a constituent calling in from Casper to voice my opposition to HB0032."
Boril also shared on her Instagram that "misgendering people is not cool" and that "disrespect was the message," HuffPost wrote. "We're all about mindful malicious compliance here," she also said.
Britt also got a lot of love on the Instagram video she posted addressing her new followers and talking about her testimony.
You can watch the clip of Britt here or the full meeting recording here.
@
Love it
Wyoming Legislature / Via
