Democrats Are Doing That ‘Weird’ Gaslighting Thing Again

The first biological male pretending to be a woman ever elected to Congress is rehashing the old “No, you’re the weird one” gaslighting thing after he was correctly gendered at a committee hearing.

Democratic Delaware Rep. Sarah McBride was referred to as “mister” by Republican Texas Rep. Keith Self at a hearing on Thursday, prompting McBride’s Democratic colleague, Massachusetts Rep. Bill Keating, to launch a brief but courageous white-knight crusade to shame Self for telling the truth. (Subscribe to MR. RIGHT, a weekly newsletter about modern masculinity)

McBride responded by calling Self “Madame Chair” and brought up the incident again at a press conference Thursday, calling the Republican Party’s focus on culture war issues “weird” and “bizarre.”

“I appear to live rent-free in the minds of some of my Republican colleagues,” McBride said. “I wish that they would spend even a fraction of the time that they spend thinking about me, thinking about how to lower the costs on American families, figuring out how to actually make government work better. … The Republican Party is obsessed with culture war issues. It is weird, and it is bizarre.”

But of course! You are weird if you believe there are two biological sexes; you are normal if you cross-dress as a woman even though you are a man. The attack line reminds me of catty, insecure high schoolers calling smarter, happier, more well-adjusted kids weird because they aren’t as catty and insecure — it’s sheer projection.

It is also desperate. During the presidential campaign in July 2024, Democrats, floundering and concerned over Kamala Harris’s popularity when she was crowned as the party’s nominee, started smearing JD Vance as “weird,” even though he was perhaps the most normal politician in Washington. The dude with a wife and kids is bizarre, not the candidate and the party that thinks kids should be allowed to get sex changes. The party that wants to keep creepy dudes out of women’s restrooms is the party of freaks. For sure, for sure.

Mr. McBride should take a long look in the mirror before he re-litigates what is weird and what isn’t.

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