Wisconsin Governor Wants Insane Replacement for the Word ‘Mother’

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, a Democrat, recently introduced a budget recommendation that changes the word “mother” to “inseminated person,” and “paternity” to “parentage” in some official government documents and portions of state law.

The Evers administration’s budget recommendation for the 2025-2027 fiscal period calls for a number of additional “gendered” terms to be retired as well.

References to “wife” or “husband” were changed to “spouse” in the proposal, while the word “father” is changed to “parent,” and “mother” is swapped out for the phrase “parent who gave birth to the child,” Fox News reported.

The budget was introduced by the state Senate’s Joint Committee on Finance this past Tuesday.

The head-scratching changes have been widely ridiculed on social media, with Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) referring to the proposal as a “red flag.”

In a sharp rebuke, parental rights in eduction activist Scarlett Johnson excoriated the Democrat governor for attempting to “erase” mothers and family values.

“Instead of using the word mother, he crossed out mother and put persons who are inseminated, persons who can be inseminated, or person who gave birth, parent who gave birth, anything but say mother, woman. Those are words he can’t say because the woke won’t let him. Folks won’t let us define what a woman is,” Johnson said in a video statement.

“A biological female with a uterus and two ovaries gives birth to a child. Only a woman can. That’s a female. That’s what I am. I’m a mom, a mom of five kids in Wisconsin. And Governor Evers, you are not going to erase me and you are not going to erase all the moms in Wisconsin. You are not going to erase women. We’re not going to let you. I don’t know what’s wrong with Democrats. I really don’t.”

Erasing Moms:Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers budget bill erases words like “mother” and replaces it with phrases like “inseminated person” and “parent who gave birth.” pic.twitter.com/EBN7vGvRMx

— Scarlett Johnson (@scarlett4kids) February 22, 2025

The Republican Governors Association (RGA) issued a similar statement, stating that the governor’s latest “left-wing push” is “offensive to mothers,”RGA executive director Sara Craig said in a statement. “Being a mother is the greatest privilege I will have in my lifetime, and every mother I know feels the same. If Tony Evers can reduce motherhood to an ‘inseminated person’ then our society is lost.”

The Wisconsin governor’s push to remove the word “mother” comes as President Trump has sought to erase left-wing language changes and social ideologies from the federal government. Trump recently signed an executive order called “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”

Under the order, Trump made it official federal government policy to recognize two sexes, male and female,” saying they are “not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.”