Are you man enough

For Kathleen Sebelius?

You’d better run a check before answering that question

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee’s health care legislation will give the Health and Human Services secretary the authority to develop “standards of measuring gender” — as opposed to using the traditional “male” and “female” categories — in a database of all who apply or participate in government-run or government-supported health care plans.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is required by the proposed law — The Affordable Health Choices Act,which was voted out of committee on July 15  —  to create a database within one year of the law’s enactment that will include detailed information about those who sign up for government-run or supported health care programs, including their race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, language and disabilities.

The proposed law states that the database can use the Office of Management and Budget “standards for race and ethnicity measures.”

But for the collection of “gender” data, instead of using the categories “male” and “female,” the legislation calls for “developing standards for the measurement of gender.”

Measurement? With what, a ruler?

How? Length, diameter, crosscut section with a counting of the rings?

Will there be a national standard? Because those Texas guys who like to think “Everything’s Bigger in Texas” might have screwed themselves with that slogan.

Are they going to have a bathroom type scale for testicular measurement?

More importantly, if I whack her across the face with it will I be arrested for assault with a deadly weapon?

I have questions I don’t think I can get answered over the phone without Treasury agents stopping by my house.

Found via Suzanna Logan