The proposed changes to House Rules would “honor all gender identities” by eliminating such specific terms as mother and father, son and daughter, and aunt and uncle.
Instead, only genderless terms such as “father,” “son,” “brother,” and “brother of parents” would be allowed in the text of House rules, according to the proposed changes.
The proposed changes, which also include the establishment of a “Office of Diversity and Inclusion” office, will be voted on after the House is convened on Sunday for the new 117th Congress.
Another rule change would prevent Republicans from amending a bill at the last minute, the Washington Examiner reported.
Instead, these proposed changes would send the bill back to the committee, effectively killing it, the examiner noted.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said last-minute law changes, known as Motions to Recommend, “should no longer be used to hijack the legislative process to make political games.”
The new rules will make the House “the most inclusive in history,” Pelosi said in announcing the proposed changes.
But the gender-neutralizing movement (a nod to the transgender rather than binary community) was widely mocked on social media.
“As you can see, Congress really has its finger on the pulse of America,” the Conservative said Daily Caller took to Twitter.
“Is this a plan to create confusion through obfuscation?” @tweeting_chance replied to the tweet. “Don’t we have enough of that in our legislation?”
Other changes would remove the floor privileges of former members of the House convicted of crimes related to their service or election to the House and would become a violation of the official Code of Conduct for a member of the House or an employee to reveal a whistleblower.
Members of the House and their employees would also be prohibited from disseminating “manipulated media,” including “deepfakes.”