MADISON, WI – It was presented by the office of Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers on Friday afternoon. The bill would change how a Wisconsin law talks about biological women and men.
The conservative radio host Dan O’Donnell was the first to report on 2025 Senate Bill 45. Section 3106 of that bill lists many examples of words like wife, husband, mother, and father being crossed out and replaced with words like spouse, person, and even inseminated person.
The bill is about “state finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature,” and the request to change the language doesn’t come up until pages 1,766 and 1,767.
There has been a movement in mostly Democratic states to change or get rid of these terms from state law for a while now. For example, Massachusetts passed “The Massachusetts Parentage Act” last August, which protects children born to parents “legal parentage equality” regardless of their parents’ marital status, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation, or the circumstances of their birth, such as whether they were born through assisted reproduction or surrogacy.
Also, the Massachusetts bill said that states had to change words like “father” and “mother” in their parentage rules to ones that were more “inclusive,” like “parent” or “the person who gave birth.”
In the past few years, similar laws have been passed in Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont, among other states.
This bill comes after Trump signed an order that says biological men and biological women can’t play against each other in high school and college sports. In the past few weeks, both the WIAA and the NCAA have said they will follow the president’s order.
Republican lawmakers in the state, like Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, have not yet said anything about the bill, and Gov. Tony Evers has not yet made an official statement about it.
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