Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers introduced a budget bill this week that calls mothers an “inseminated person” and switches both mother and father to “parent who gave birth.”
Evers crossed out the words “man,” “father,” “mother,” and “wife” in statutory language included in his budget bill.
State Rep. Amanda Nedweski first posted about the changes in a Facebook post on Friday afternoon. She noted that the Democratic governor replaced the word “father” over 120 times throughout the 1,917-page document.
“As a proud mother of two, it is absolutely insulting that the Governor, in his 2025-27 budget bill, would reduce me and millions of other mothers across Wisconsin to ‘inseminated persons.’ It is not only deeply offensive, but it is an outright attack on the very essence of motherhood,” Nedweski wrote in a press release. “It is unconscionable that the Governor has the audacity to take the most beautiful, life-giving act a woman can perform—bringing children into this world—and turn it into nothing more than gender-neutral, virtue-signaling jargon to appease his far-left base.”
“Governor Evers is a former science teacher,” Nedweski added. “It appears to me that he needs a refresher on basic biology. Last I checked, only one gender is capable of giving birth—women. Anyone who says otherwise is denying science.”
The Governor’s budget bill strikes the word “mother” and replaces it with gender-neutral terminology on at least 30 occasions. He replaces the word “father” over 120 times throughout the 1,917-page document.
Evers was roundly mocked on social media – including by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. “I’m a Wisconsinite, and Tony Evers is a complete embarrassment! Absolute insanity,” wrote one person on X. “I live in WI and am ashamed of Evers and Baldwin. They are so far out of touch with what the people they represent want it’s hard to believe,” another person wrote.
Evers’ bill, 2025 Senate Bill 45, Section 3106, contains several examples of terms such as husband, man, wife, father, and mother crossed out and replaced with terms like inseminated person, spouse, and person.
Messed up https://t.co/jaQhFe2U1H
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 21, 2025
The thought of being labeled as “inseminated” or “uninseminated” by this creep makes my stomach turn ??? https://t.co/TABZEfJBkK pic.twitter.com/OGhYsT4Mk4
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) February 22, 2025
Evers, a Democrat, was also mocked by athlete and women’s rights advocate Riley Gaines as the news went viral.
This week, the WIAA announced they will comply with an executive order signed by President Trump banning biological men from competing in women’s high school sports.
“Governor Evers proudly proclaimed his tax-and-spend budget to be ‘the most pro-kid budget in state history.’ However no budget can be truly pro-kid while erasing mothers and fathers from the equation,” Nedweski said. “Contrary to what Evers and his liberal allies on the fringes of the Democrat Party believe, our kids are not wards of the state. They belong to their parents. No amount of statutory language changes will ever change that fact. Governor Evers owes every woman and every mother in Wisconsin an apology for diminishing the importance and dignity of motherhood.”
We asked Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel whether he agrees with Tony Evers calling mothers inseminated people. He said: “Radicals backing Susan Crawford want to erase mothers and call them inseminated persons. Men are men. Women are women. Can Susan Crawford say the same?” — Brad Schimel We have sent a request for comment to Crawford’s campaign.
