Christian nationalist North Carolina Republican Lt. Governor Mark Robinson, currently the leading candidate for the GOP nomination for governor, launched an attack on transgender women years after the Tar Heel State’s last GOP governor cost the state millions – and possibly billions – of dollars, and cost him his political career over the very same issue.
“We’re going to defend women in this state,” vowed Robinson, according to WUNC, at a campaign stop earlier this month. “That means if you’re a man on Friday night, and all the sudden on Saturday, you feel like a woman, and you want to go in the women’s bathroom in the mall, you will be arrested — or whatever we got to do to you.”
“In campaign speeches in recent weeks,” WUNC added, “Robinson suggested that people who previously identified as male should be ‘arrested’ if they go in a women’s bathroom. Instead, he suggests they should ‘find a corner outside somewhere’ to relieve themselves.”
In a different campaign speech Robinson said, “if you are confused, find a corner outside somewhere to go. We’re not tearing society down because of this.”
Can we just let gender-neutral toilets be the default so we can all stop worrying this? The fact that the stranger shitting next stall over may or may not have a penis is not a problem. Having to scrape turds off my shoe because someone followed this guy’s advise and shat on the sidewalk makes it my problem.
They’re NOT worried about it. They’re using trans people as a boogieman to scare morons. That’s it. They’re trying to make idiots worried to create an excuse to do bad things, not worried themselves.
These people are EVIL in every sense of the word, and I’m not religious. They are despicable people that want to do bad things to those they don’t like, and they’re creating room to do those bad things.
maaaan i honestly kinda hope they can just over themselves. as someone who has cleaned toilets, i kinda don’t want gender neutral toilets. i don’t want them all to be as disgusting and horrible as women’s bathrooms. most men don’t know how good they have it with the currently segregated bathrooms…
I used to have to clean toilets at a banquet facility… my God the women’s restroom looked like a war room every goddamn morning. We drew straws on that task. Who the hell just slaps their pad onto the side of the wall when there is an empty receptacle right there for them…
Thanks for bringing back that PTSD.
THIS! Every mother fucker concerned about this needs to be shipped off to Sweden to see how it’s done.
Here in the US you get one giant communal room with crappy metal dividers blocking most, but not all, direct line of sight with the toilets.
Over there, you find a small hallway with several doors, and behind each door is a small private bathroom. You can change clothes, brush your teeth at the sink, put something on your phone with sound, or be messy/loud/smelly and it doesn’t affect anybody else or make you self conscious.
(Sweden is my example because that’s the last country I’ve traveled to in a long time)
That wouldn’t accomplish what they want to accomplish, which is to make trans people a scapegoat they can use to rile up simple-minded voters.