Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) had some choice words for President Joe Biden after he appeared to misgender a federal official, accusing him of not knowing what a woman is despite her own misspelling of the word “woman.”
Boebert, like many on the right, has spent the past few years outraged at any discussion of gendered pronouns and mocking the practice of sharing one’s pronouns, which is common among LGBTQ+ people and often practiced by progressives to make spaces more welcoming to transgender and nonbinary people.
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“My pronoun is ‘Patriot,’” she quipped in 2021. In 2022, she denounced Vice President Kamala Harris as “idiotic” for sharing her pronouns when introducing herself. In 2023, she said that teachers never announced “their martial status & pronouns to everyone” when discussing Florida’s Don’t Say Gay law.
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One could be forgiven for thinking that getting pronouns wrong isn’t a big deal for Boebert. But one would be wrong.
Biden discussed the shooting at a Trump campaign event this past weekend in an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt. Holt asked Biden if he has talked to Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle since the shooting, and Biden replied, “Oh I’ve heard from him/’em.”
It’s unclear if Biden said “him” or “’em” – the clip Boebert shared stopped just before Biden discussed a meeting with directors from “the Secret Service, the FBI, the national security agencies, the Homeland Security, all the major elements” – but Boebert was mad that Biden didn’t say “her” clearly to refer to Cheatle, who uses she/her pronouns, according to her profile on the U.S. Secret Service website.
“The Secret Service Director is a she,” Boebert posted to X, before misspelling the word “woman.” “I’m sure that’s difficult for someone who doesn’t know what a women [sic] is.”
“And, SHE is a FAILURE that must resign.”