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, an...

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.”

  • GoddessOfGouda@lemmy.world
    1633·
    10 个月前

    Wonder how he’d feel about being told the same thing, but because of his skin color.

    Some people are quite dense.

      • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        10 个月前

        Robinson attributed the beginning of his interest in American conservative politics to his reading of a book by Rush Limbaugh, after which he “found out that was conservative and always had been.”

        Anyone who gets their political philosophy from Rush Limbaugh is a dipshit who wants to be lied to or a grifter.

    • moshankey@lemmy.world
      13·
      10 个月前

      This person, specifically. Been following this twit for some time. I’m sure his mother loves him. I guess.

    • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      10 个月前

      The sad thing is that his right to use the bathroom is protected.

      However, there is absolutely nothing saying we can’t accuse him of being a transwoman and denying him the bathroom.

      Because tHaT’s FrEe SpEaCh

      • GoddessOfGouda@lemmy.world
        62·
        10 个月前

        I often think about this, but I think it sends the wrong message — that your gender is a privilege you can lose, and other people can willingly respect or not. As much as I hate these people, I don’t wanna detract from the trans community’s comfort zone if that makes sense. Weaponizing pronouns and gendered language only stoops to the low low level of right wingers