- cross-posted to:
- transgender
- cross-posted to:
- transgender
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.”
Time to trot out this rotting strawman, again? The fact that he can bring this up after this stupid idea has been thoroughly debunked means he’s either ignorant or just hoping nobody notices. It’s a loser issue, dude.
What’s chilling is the “or whatever we got to do to you.” Like what? Public beatings? Lynching? The same shit that was allowed to be done to your ancestors during the time when segregation was legal?
I hope you lose your job and a lot of money, asshole.
He probably means police trying to make the arrest deliberately escalating the situation to violence, so they have an excuse to murder the suspect in a hail of gunfire. Standard procedure stuff.
Pfft, “standard procedure”. Name one time in the last twenty years the police even waited for an excuse to start shooting.
They do somewhat frequently, and make sure that every moment is recorded on body cameras, and that’s the bodycam footage that seems to get through the “internal investigation” phase in record time to be released as copaganda to justify the rest of their extrajudicial killings
That particular bit gave me pause as well. Ah yes, lynch mobs! According to conservatives, one of the proudest points in American history!
It’s an open ended “remedy.” And he said it publicly, which means the Christofascists will take that as an order.