EU’s Parliament Erases Meaning of Women and Pregnancy in One Day
Last week, by a vote of 340 to 141, the Parliament of the European Union — a unified group of 27 countries — approved “the full recognition of trans women as women” and encourages this to be recognized across all EU policy and law. You read that right. This body believes men are now women.
But it gets even crazier.
Tomasz Froelich, a German member of the European Parliament, revealed on X that the body also rejected an amendment recognizing “that only biological women can become pregnant.” The vote recorded 233 EU parliamentarians rejecting this undeniable truth while only 200 affirmed it. Remarkably, 107 members abstained, apparently expressing public confusion on the matter. Froelich was right to call the development “a madhouse.”

Ironically, these votes direct the EU’s priorities for the 70th session on the UN Commission on the Status of Women. They did so by erasing the meaning of women across these 27 member countries. American investigative reporter Gerald Posner explains that this vote “does not amend treaties or compel immediate statutory change.”
But that does not mean these two votes are not extremely harmful and consequential. Posner notes, “Language adopted at this stage often migrates — from guidance, to funding priorities, to regulatory expectation.” It dramatically shifts how most European nations will now see basic biology and sex. Make no mistake, this is the further erasure of any coherent meaning of female and pregnancy in law and language. It redefines parentage as well.
In his social media post on this vote, Posner is correct when he observes,
A society that cannot define what it means to be a girl or a woman, and demonstrates confusion on who can get pregnant, is a society that has descended into utter madness. That is not a judgement statement, but a fact. Gender ideology turns basic reality on its head and calls it enlightenment.
This is why no one should ever think they are being kind when using “gender pronouns.” It isn’t.
And no one should ever pretend that being “trans” is something that is real and must be respected. It isn’t real and no one should respect lies.
Even the pro-trans American Psychiatric Association readily admits that “transgender” is not a medical or psychiatric diagnosis. It is ideological fiction that does not exist in nature. It is a belief system.
Thankfully, successful lawsuits against medical professionals and psychiatric clinicians are beginning to turn this madness around. Earlier this month, The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) issued a new position statement on performing gender surgeries on deeply confused children and adolescents. They confess “there is insufficient evidence” for performing such surgeries. This is because “systematic reviews and evidence reassessment have subsequently identified limitations in study quality, consistency, and follow-up alongside emerging evidence of treatment complications and potential harms.”
The U.K.’s careful Cass Review arrived at this fact back in April of 2024.
The ASPS now recommends surgeons do not perform “gender-related breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery until a patient is at least 19 years old.”
The American Medical Association (AMA) told The Washington Post the very same day that “the evidence for gender-affirming surgical intervention in minors is insufficient for us to make a definitive statement” in support of such procedures. The Post reported the AMA “agrees with ASPS that surgeries for minors should be generally deferred to adulthood in the absence of clear evidence.”
Such surgeries do not work for minors, but we are supposed to believe they work fantastically the moment a child comes of age. Of course they will not. This shift is all about liability protection.
This is the age we are living in. Politicians feel compelled to vote that men are women and can indeed get pregnant, even while medical professionals are now realizing they are legally culpable for mutilating the perfectly healthy bodies of young patients who suffer from confused minds.
No one should be compelled to participate in this madness with our language or manipulated compassion.
Additional Resources
A Singularly Christian View of the Transgender Problem
Why Christians Can’t Avoid the “Trans” and Gender Redefinition Issue
Yes, Transgenderism is a False Belief System
What Does it Mean to Be Trans, Anyway?
How the “Trans” and Gender Redefinition Issue Attacks the Family
Do Not Fall for the ‘Affirm Them or They Will Die’ Lie
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Glenn is the director of Global Family Formation Studies at Focus on the Family and debates and lectures extensively on the issues of gender, sexuality, marriage and parenting at universities and churches around the world. His latest books are "The Myth of the Dying Church" and “Loving My (LGBT) Neighbor: Being Friends in Grace and Truth." He is also a senior contributor for The Federalist.
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