The law professor called out the GOP senator for questioning her about people who can become pregnant.
The Senate is holding a confirmation hearing for a Supreme Court nominee.
A professor at the University of California, Berkeley was asked why she referred to people with a capacity for pregnancies as people with a capacity for abortion.
She said she wanted to "recognize that your line of questioning is transphobia and it opens up trans people to violence."
Bridges said that Hawley is "pretending" Trans people.
don’t exist,” asking, “I’m denying that trans people exist?”Bridges replied by asking the senator if he believed men could get pregnant, to which the senator said no, and Bridges said, "You're denying that trans people exist, thank you."
The law professor was asked if she ran her classroom like this and if her students were treated like this.
Bridges replied, "we have a good time in my class" and said that he should join it.
Bridges told Hawley that they can recognize the impact of abortion on women and other groups. It's not mutually exclusive.
It was nearly 1 in five. Bridges cited a study about the number of young people who have attempted suicide because of their gender identity. The professor suggested that the harm to trans people could be caused by the line of questioning.
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee argued that the Supreme Court's decision to overturn abortion rights would have harmful effects. The Supreme Court has corrected a wrong that has affected millions of lives, according to the ranking member. The debate over whether to refer to abortion as impacting women or people has been playing out among those who support abortion rights. The term "pregnant people" has been embraced by Democrats and advocacy groups in order to be more inclusive of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans community. The New York Times op-ed writer Pamela Paul claimed using people instead of women means women don't count.
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