Locked in a tight race with Rep. Val Demings, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) trots out a transphobic attack on the CDC. The CDC used gender inclusive language when referring to pregnancy with the term “pregnant people.” Recently, there has been an increase in transphobic language by members of the GOP.
RUBIO: “Today, we are subjected to things like there are such things as pregnant men. As of what is it almost 10:00 Eastern Standard time, are we on standard or daylight time? I don't remember. It doesn't matter. As of almost ten o'clock today, as far as I know, every single human being that's ever been born was born of a biological woman and yet we have not just commentators, not just professors, we have the Centers for Disease Control, we have the some of the most prominent public health agency in America, who insists on using the term pregnant people. Well, I can assure you that that's never happened.”
