House Democrats unanimously voted this week against legislation to build a new women’s history museum on the National Mall. The reason was an amendment that limited the exhibits to biological women to the exclusion of transgender figures. The museum failed 204-216 as House Democrats hoped that they could still secure a museum including transgender figures once they retake power after the midterm elections.
The amendment drafted by Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., states in part, “The Museum shall be dedicated to preserving, researching, and presenting the history, achievements and lived experiences of biological women in the United States.”
It further mandated that the museum would not depict “any biological male as female.”
The vote was notable after the release of the DNC “autopsy” report that flagged how transgender and identity politics contributed to the defeat in the last election.
The report specifically noted the success of Trump’s “Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you” ad. The report noted that “If the Vice President would not change her position — and she did not — then there was nothing which would have worked as a response.”
The fact that this was a unanimous vote among Democratic members is particularly notable and suggests that transgender issues will remain a rallying point for the Democrats.
Democratic members called the exclusion a “poison pill” amendment.
In the meantime, transgender issues continue to occupy the courts with a major decision by the Colorado Supreme Court this week that ordered Colorado’s largest provider of gender-affirming care for young people to resume medical treatments like puberty blockers and hormone therapy.
That puts Children’s Hospital Colorado in direct conflict with the Department of Health and Human Services, which has moved to block federal support for institutions providing such care.
Justice William Wood III wrote that “We conclude that the actual immediate and irreparable harm to petitioners outweighs the speculative harm CHC may face if the federal government further acts against it.”
In his dissent, Justice Brian Boatright said that this was hardly a speculative matter, but “a decision driven by the direct threat to the viability of the entire hospital.”
Here is the opinion: Boe v. Child.’s Hosp. Colo.
What you are seeing is the result of the LGBTQ people that have been voted in to positions of authority in government. Councilmen, Commissioners, Mayors, Governors, Representatives and Senators. They have a special duty to their community of deviants to spread and attempt to normalize the social acceptance of their sexual perversions. This is the same game plan as followed by blocks of immigrants, Chinese, Hispanics, Blacks etc. Insert their ideological agenda based upon their own beliefs into the governance and position themselves and their communities at the top of the food chain.
Most normal people have no desire to be involved in politics, it’s the dirtiest nastiest business one could ever choose, aside from law enforcement.
God, I love when the typical Turley reader just says it like it is – unabashed racism, homophobia and misogyny. It’s honestly refreshing. Why act like you’re NOT any of these things? God bless your honesty sir. You just have to love Turley’s army….
You could not be more wrong.
I do not believe as that person at 10:12 AM believes.
However, that person is responsible to all the voters in their district. Not just one agenda. They should keep in mind with the larger picture and not just one special interest group.
Typical stupidity, generalizing from one person’s comment to “Turley’s army” (whatever that is).
misogyny? The best woman is a man, baby!
Professor Turley writes, “The fact that this was a unanimous vote among Democratic members is particularly notable and suggests that transgender issues will remain a rallying point for the Democrats.”
My humble opinion: it’s not just a rallying point. It’s primarily a fundraising issue that replaced gay marriage as a fundraiser. Fundraising issues, no matter how insane, are stubborn things. As Rush often said, “Follow the money.”
Also, the real reason Democrats want a women’s museum is to normalize bearded women. The achievements of actual women are at best secondary. The Democrat Party has been reduced to a freak show, complete with carnival barkers.
Concerned Citizen provided a link to a politico article with this additional context:
Several GOP lawmakers raised concerns in House Republicans’ closed door meeting Wednesday morning about why the museum was needed. They also argued it would further divide Americans into groups when there are already women represented across the wider collection of Smithsonian museums, according to five people in the room granted anonymity to describe the private discussion.
Those points are well taken. Being $39 trillion in debt, do we really need to borrow even more money from our children and grandchildren for this type of thing?
Debt is a thing. Especially when it’s $39 trillion.
Stop fighting over museum amendments. Hold formal congressional hearings, bring in the witnesses, present the evidence, and call the vote. One question: what is a woman under American law? Every downstream policy depends on that answer. They will kill a museum over it, dodge it at a Supreme Court confirmation, and issue court orders around it, but nobody will call the direct vote. That tells you everything about who has the stronger argument. Force the vote. The evasion is the disease.
If they create a women’s history museum, shouldn’t they also create a men’s history museum? Why highlight the history of women’s achievements and lived experiences, but not men’s achievements and lived experiences? Don’t both sexes have achievements and lived experiences?
Why do we have a father’s day and a mother’s day but no kids day?
The adult’s inevitable answer: “everyday is kids day”
That’s amusing but it has nothing to do with the question I asked.
Remember that “we have a father’s day and a mother’s day,” but we have to have a whole “PRIDE MONTH!!!!”
https://www.history.com/articles/pride-month
Go figure what the Left and Democrats are doing to our country!
Democrats hoped that they could still secure a museum including transgender figures once they retake power after the midterm elections.
They could also promise to pass amending legislation at that juncture, so that is no excuse. This shows their real fear is pissing off the lunatic fringe by voting yes with a promise to amend. Either that, or the entire Democrat party is now the lunatic fringe. But I believe this is still an 80/20 issue, which would mean that at least a few Democrats are still sane enough not to think biological men are actual women just because they have a delusion to that effect.
‘The museum failed 204-216 as House Democrats hoped that they could still secure a museum including transgender figures once they retake power after the midterm elections.’
There it is again. ‘When’, not, ‘if’. The hubris, oh the hubris. This is still a decidedly 80/20 issue, if not 90/10. The dems are insane.
After the DNC Report, a badly written (like the VA AG’s pleadings, can’t Dem men write) document outlining SOME of what went wrong for the party in 2024 highlights the trans issue and how the party needs to avoid it and moderate on it. However now we see that the party cannot move away from Trans support because the left won’t let them. The party voted unanimously to not have a Woman’s Museum if trans aren’t included???
If the report on the 2024 election is rightly called the autopsy of the election this is tantamount to having the coroner say the patient died due to complications of various diseases caused by smoking and therefore we recommend you provide free cigarettes for all future patients.
The party cannot moderate and in fact they are moving further and further to the left with every new candidate. We have a guy wit h a nazi tattoo who says he was a communist, a socialist Jew hating mayor of NYC, a far left socialist mayor of Seattle and we even have a woman leading her opponent in a Dem primary in TX who is calling for people who are Zionists, support for a state of Israel, should be put in camps. Jews is camps and yet we never see Jeffries or Schumer or any other Democrat have a mic stuck in there face to be asked about it. If a Republican candidate said Trans people should be put in camps earth would stop spinning tomorrow.
Here is an article that provides additional information on the House vote. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/05/21/congress/house-smithsonian-womens-museum-00932675
This is what you get when you try to please all the people all the time in the pursuit of the vote: division, exclusion, indoctrination, and stagnation. The woke volks initiativ and cancel culture Gestapo is is alive and well within Democrats both in office and at the polls and none of them have yet to be diagnosed as negative for stupid.
when is the musuem of the WHITE MEN?
Tired of the division and WASTE of MONEY!
You want a musuem of women…get someone to DONATE IT!
STOP funding far Leftist!
Wait a minute. Perhaps we are looking at this wrong. Maybe they put in a “trans” section that highlights “trans” achievements.
But there has to be context, like historical background of the “trans” person. Before he went “trans” point out the simple things like the Olympics broadcasters will describing where the athlete was born, his athletic competitions and standing in high school and or college. Then note the date of when he went “trans.” And then contrast his competitions and standings against biological women vs the men he was previously competing against.
That could be educational.
I still don’t understand. Why are they ‘trans’ if they are women? Why aren’t they JUST women? Arern’t they saying trans doesn’t exist, just women?
And what are “trans rights”? are they the same as the rest of us? Why aren’t they JUST rights?
Do democrats believe in equality? or special treatment for some?
I’ll tell you why: Because the best woman is a MAN! Say goodbye to feminst control of democrat policy and womanhood as an identity.
Sally might want to chime in as she is not a woman anymore.
The tail is wagging the (D)emocrat (D)og:
What percentage of the US population is transgender?
About 0.95% of the nation’s adult population identifies as transgender, according to Household Pulse Survey data collected from May to September 2024. This is equivalent to approximately 2.3 million adults.
Most of the adult population (97.35%) self-identifies as cisgender. Another 1.70% do not identify as male, female, or transgender — these people may use terms like non-binary, intersex, or gender non-conforming, depending on the individual.
Once again, Turley is spending his valuable time covering THE MOST IMPORTANT STORIES of the day. As a so-called specialist in free speech protection, he COULD have covered the story of the man paid an $800,000 settlement after being jailed for a month for posting about Charlie Kirk….he COULD have covered Trump’s DOJ dismissing a case against the Broadview Protestors and absolutely being dismantled by the judge who points to their absolute blatant misconduct…..but no – the “Mike Lindell with tenure” professor has MUCH MUCH more relevant stuff to cover. Laughable.
And you could be doing something more productive with your time – like improving your personality via a lobotomy – than typing pointless complaints about what the owner chooses to write about on his blog.
Yet here you are.
Oh, you mean the case whereSocial media video of the protest posted by Katherine “Kat” Abughazaleh, an influencer-turned-congressional candidate, captured the moment she and dozens of others surrounded an ICE vehicle that drove through the crowd, banging on its windows….The vehicle’s windshield wipers were damaged and someone scratched “PIG” into its side,”?????????
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/broadview-6-trial-canceled-as-prosecutors-acknowledge-misconduct-before-grand-jury/ar-AA23OMYO
Start your own blog. Have the COURAGE to open a comments section, so that we can tell you what we think of your choices.
They’re doing wonderful things with medications these days, something to consider.
Every so often we get some hotshot coming around here talking about covering IMPORTANT STORIES and their valuable time and how it would be so much better if we would only listen to them.
Well, the truth is, we like our IMPORTANT STORIES just fine the way they are.
Congress should not be micromanaging the exhibits of a museum. Also trans is part of woman”s history. Banning it is a fascist move.
“Trans” is highjacking women’s history.
And the feminisits aren’t even mad that the best woman is always a man now.
If this works out for them, i expect Joe Biden is going down as our first all-black woman president using this logic.
Trans is REWRITING Women’s history with the message: “The best woman is a MAN!” Take that feminists!
Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes is finally WON! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1039950/
Then get a trans woman museum, should be able to fit it in a one schoolroom size building, if you think they are historically relevant
” Also trans is part of woman”s history. ”
Actually aren’t transwomen more a part of men’s history? After all, every transwoman is in fact a birth sex male.
Bruce Jenner won the Olympics decathlon. What has Caitlin Jenner done?
“Congress should not be *micromanaging* the exhibits of a museum.” (emphasis added)
A stellar example of Leftist deception via the manipulation of words.
Setting the foundations of an institution, defining its basic purpose, establishing its charter — is not “micromanaging.” It’s called thoughtful, responsible stewardship.
The best woman is a man sally so get transing.
Democrat men seem to fantasize about showering with girls, not just Ashley. They are sad they didn’t have that chance in school, or at the gym, and are trying to make sure future generations of men and boys have that opportunity. They rob girls and women of their safety, their dignity, and their privacy. It’s shameful.
Yet, another Democrat circus. From now on, whenever we read about these kind of things, we should play circus music in the background.
Their own, bought and paid for 2024 “autopsy” spelled it out concerning the “trans” issue.
Come On Man!! What’s wrong with the Women’s Museum having a Ru Paul’s Drag Race Wing to celebrate the DUDES that identify as women? Also, going to need a wing for the various He-She Convicts in the US who manage to get to be King (oops, I mean Queen) Kong in the Women’s Prison System! They are the real trendsetters and frontier-women that push the limits of common sense (oops, I mean expanding boundaries) for ALL WOMEN!! Ridiculous.
Democrats are DEIsts: transhumane and misogynistic, racist, etc, incorporated under the Diversity (i.e. class-disordered ideologies) umbrella. A wicked solution. #HateLovesAbortion
Got proof of that?
I liked his comment. Take that for proof.
Transgender spectrum: homos or sims? Social?