State Rep. Susan DuBose (R-Hoover) says state lawmakers will work quickly in the 2025 session to pass a bill that define biological sex as the gender of legal record in Alabama.
‘The What is a Woman Act’ passed the Alabama House of Representatives last year, but didn’t make it though the Senate before the end of the session. The bill defines man, woman, boy, girl, father, mother, male, female, sex for purpose of state law. According to the bill, sex is determined by genetics at birth.
Alabama Speaker Ledbetter has already said that he expects the bill to pass this session.
“We got it out last year, just didn’t get to the finish line. But I do think it needs to be brought back up, and we need to have clarification,” Ledbetter said. “I think Alabama is a state that the people of our state want that, and so we’ll continue to fight that fight.”
DuBose discussed the bill Friday on WVNN’s “The Yaffee Program.”
“So let’s just call this a year of common sense on some of this stuff,” DuBose said. “We in Alabama have been ahead of the game. We know what a man is. We know what a woman is. We almost completed this bill last year. There just wasn’t quite enough time. It flew through the House of Representatives, flew through committee in the Senate, just did not get a final vote on the Senate floor. So we do need to continue this effort to codify this into Alabama law.”
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The lawmaker explained why the legislation is still necessary in the state.
“Unfortunately, the meaning and definition of man and woman has become unclear to some people that don’t have common sense,” she said, “and so we want to clarify it in our administrative codes. This will be for the courts and everybody in our state to know the this is the true biological definition of male, female, man, woman, mother, father.”
DuBose also praised the new Trump administration for putting forward an executive order making it clear what the definition of a woman is on the federal level.
“I expect that to be one of the very first things that we passed, what Trump did was excellent,” she argued, “that protected us on the federal level for federal agencies, but we need that at this in the state level as well.”
Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on Twitter @Yaffee
