In other words, Caitlin Jenner will not be in the museum for winning a gold medal as Bruce. (Should she be?) “Republicans on the Committee on House Administration couldn’t resist poisoning the bill with an anti-trans rider,” Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA) complained in a news release. “Let me be clear: the Museum should highlight the experiences of all women, including transgender.” Oh. Wait: does that mean Democrats want a biological woman who now “identifies” as male to be eligible for mention in the museum, and that a biological male who now says she’s female gets an exhibit too?
There are rather obvious problems with such an expansive definition of “woman.” What would stop Donald Trump from declaring one day that he is a woman, and thus has become the first woman President (sort of like when Toni Morrison called Bill the first black President) deserving a major exhibit? Shouldn’t a biological man have to have had, you know, something done to him before he could qualify as a woman other than just deciding he always was one? What would be the status of an accomplished “non-binary” individual born female?
I have reluctantly decided that the Women’s History Museum cannot avoid being a casualty of The Great Stupid. Progressives have no one to blame but themselves.
Post Script: Legal Insurrection, which is usually above such things, headlined a post about the controversy, Democrats Block ‘Women’s History Museum’ Bill Because It Excludes Men. I thought Democrats were genuinely objecting to a women-only museum because it discriminated against men, which made no sense at all. This sort of thing is the kind of false framing the Axis media excels at. I don’t appreciate deceit regardless of who is responsible.
Ethics Alarms 
I don’t see anything wrong with LI’s framing; it’s basically what they did, and explained in the first few lines of the article.
“House Democrats blocked legislation to establish a “Women’s History Museum” because of an amendment requiring the new institution to only honor real women, not gender-confused men.
“The Museum shall be dedicated to preserving, researching, and presenting the history, achievements, and lived experiences of biological women in the United States,” the bill states.
The legislation forbade the museum from depicting a “biological male as female.”
But that wasn’t the Democrats’ framing, and the article was about their vote. They complained that the museum wouldn’t admit who they regarded as women, not as men. The headline was literally the opposite of their reasoning, and this could not legitimately follow “because.”
If you view the democats’ framing of some men as women as delusional or misleading, the LI headline would have to be considered factual, as the dims did vote against the legislation because it would exclude those men.
A dog only has four legs.
Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA), said, “Let me be clear: the Museum should highlight the experiences of all women, including transgender women.”
Any politician uttering such nonsense should be run out of town on a rail.
jvb
Jack asked, “In other words, Caitlin Jenner will not be in the museum for winning a gold medal as Bruce. (Should [s]he be?)”
When this issue started in about 2011 or 2012, I asked that very question. Some esteemed commenters thought my question was ridiculous. Now, it does not seem so dumb, does it? If “transwomen” are real women, the Bruce Jenner’s Olympic records in the decathlon should be included in the women’s record book, even though the Olympics does not have a women’s decathlon event for reasons that escape me and I am too lazy to look it up.
jvb
Because I’m easily sidetracked…
Did you know that only three fillies have won the Kentucky Derby? In over 150 years, only 40 have run in it. We have a race just for fillies, The Oaks, the day before. The girls’ race is 1/8 mile shorter. In either race, the fillies carry 5 lbs. less than the boys do.
We will know we have reached peak whatever-this-current-nonsense-is when a colt is allowed to run in the Oaks because the trainer is sure he identifies as a filly.
Back on topic, I think the main problem with a museum for women is that I suspect it would choose who is honored based on politics more than who is actually deserving. The thing that would keep Caitlin Jenner out is that she votes Republican, not that she won gold as a male.
Caitlin didn’t identify during the Olympics, properly competed as a man, won gold as a man, and surgically transitioned years later. She gets my respect.