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.”
He’s not even being reactionary or emotional. It’s way more cynical than that. He’s simply trying to score political points to morons who are bigoted, reactionary, emotional, and don’t try to understand the situation.
Edit: I could be wrong, he may really just be a simple bigot
My current belief is that this guy is a True Believer.
In general my read in the situation is that attacking trans people is a losing issue, and True Believers are trying to change that. I don’t think a cynical office chaser can watch people who run on this shit get pasted again and again and still think it’s a winning strategy.