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The top 10 right wing freak outs over trans rights

The top 10 right wing freak outs over trans rights
The right-wing is having an absolute, 4-alarm freak out after discovering that transgender people have been legally using the same bathrooms as them without (real) incident for almost 25 years. They needed this manufactured social crisis since they had to throw in the towel on marriage and hating on LGB people. The results of this spaz attack have alternated between hilariously dumb, to exposing how they hate transgender people enough to encourage abusing children and cold blooded murder. Here are 10 of the worst ways they have freaked out over transgender people in bathrooms.

  1. Impeach Obama!

The White House and the Obama administration have made protecting transgender people an issue, including providing guidance via the Department of Education on how transgender students should be treated.  This includes letting transgender children use bathrooms in accordance with their gender identity. Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, responded in a measured, rational way.

Ha. No.

He decided that saying transgender kids should be treated respectfully rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors, and Congress should immediately impeach Obama.

Imagine if Obama committed an actual crime, like jay-walking, or spitting out his gum in the grass.

  1. Transgender people caused 9/11

The daughter of evangelical pastor Billy Graham suggested that transgender people caused 9/11 by making God angry enough at America to let the terrorists win. Which begs two questions: does this mean trans people are hot enough to melt steel I-beams? Also, if America is just getting around to accepting transgender people, what sort of a God preemptively punishes people for something they haven’t done yet?

  1. Screaming at people in Target

Is there a better way to convince people to change their minds than to scream at them street-preacher style? Or better yet, street-preacher style while they’re shopping for toys at Target? Well, these annoying nut-jobs thought being a public nuisance was the perfect way to make people realize Target shouldn’t let transgender people use bathrooms or changing areas at their stores.

For whatever reason, people weren’t buying what they were selling (but they were still buying at Target!)

Never fear, though, a woman at the end of the video demonstrated she had learned something important about the people yelling at her: “You’re not a true Christian, you’re an asshole.”

And knowing is half the battle.

  1. Texas Republicans considered seceding over this issue

Right wing hate groups and their spokesmen have been urging Texas, and other states, to secede from the union over the “demonic” plan to let transgender people use the bathroom that’s in line with their gender identity. This would be simply more zany lunatic fringe antics, except for fact that the Republican Party of Texas seriously fucking considered making it part of their party’s platform.

Pause for a moment.  The American Civil War killed 2.4% of the people in the US. Applied to the current US population, that’s about 7.5 million dead people. And Texas Republicans actually had a debate on whether a new civil war was worth it to prevent transgender people from going pee in a little metal stall of their choice.

And they say transgender people are crazy.

  1. Killing transgender people is definitely on the table.

The right wing claims that this isn’t really about transgender people. This might be plausible if it weren’t for the fact that they keep threatening to beat, shoot, castrate, and nerve gas transgender people. And it’s not members of hate groups threatening this: each and every one of these threats came from Republican elected officials.

Republican candidate for sheriff in Denton County, Texas, Tracy Murphree has vowed to personally beat any transgender people he finds in bathrooms unconscious (and potentially to death). Republican Richard Floyd of Tennessee also similarly promised to beat transgender people to death if he found them in a bathroom. Todd Kincannon, former executive director of the South Carolina Republican party tweeted that transgender people should be sent to concentration camps.  Spartanburg County South Carolina Sheriff Chuck Wright threatened transgender people stating, “I’m gonna whip your tail if you go in there with my wife while she’s trying to use the bathroom, or my granddaughter.”

Leaders in hate groups are spurring this on, threatening to shoot transgender people in bathrooms, or to castrate them personally.

Oddly enough, all of these people claim they’re really making America safer.

Not from where I’m sitting.

  1. Potty police catch two: have to throw them back

The law against transgender people using bathrooms in North Carolina hasn’t yielded any perpetrators. However, potty police have managed to catch some cisgender (non-transgender) women with short hair and harassed the shit out of them. Video of two incidents were captured on cell phone.

Apparently, the only women who are allowed to use the bathroom without showing ID must be dressed like (female) extras from “Little House on the Prairie.”

And Commander McCrory bids you welcome to the Republic of Gilead.

  1. Hate groups encouraging locals to bully transgender children

The Alliance Defending Freedom, another SPLC designated hate group, is sending out representatives to school board meetings encouraging towns to reject and ostracize transgender youth if they do not stop being transgender.  At a recent school board meeting in Blue Ridge, Georgia, ADF attorney Ken Fletcher urged the crowd to reject a local transgender student’s identity to, “lead them back to their birth gender,” in order to “help them so they don’t lead a life of heartbreak”.

He neglected to mention that such rejection can increase the suicide attempt rate by 1300%. (no that’s not a misprint).

The key take away here is that the religious right believes a kid is better off dead than transgender.

Lovely.

  1. Alt-Right wingers caught faking evidence about transgender people.

If you don’t have any evidence, then why not make it up? That was the starting point for alt-right prankster Joey Salads who produced a video purporting to show that “real” women freak out and scream when a transgender person walks into the bathroom.  The problem with his video was that all of it was staged, and provably so with science by Zinnia Jones in her video response. (Seriously, watch it.)  The bathroom was actually a single toilet handicapped facility, it was done off hours at a friend of Mr. Salad’s office, and the cisgender women entering it were actors.

Mr. Salads made one key mistake: he never had to make facts up in the first place to get the public to hate and fear transgender people in the first place.

  1. Transgender people are a plot to destroy Christianity in America.

Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council also claimed that transgender people having legal protections is part of a plot to destroy Christianity in America.

QUESTION: “Do you think that the ultimate goal is to destroy the impact of Christianity in our country?”

PERKINS: Definitely, yes.

It’s all part of a radical movement trying to destroy the fact that God created man and woman — and that somehow people can choose what gender they want to be. The ultimate goal is to break down all sexual inhibition and morality — a goal that would result in social chaos.

  1. Pat McCrory wants to gut the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because of transgender people.

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory went on CNN and argued that Congress should “re-visit” (i.e. gut) the entirety of 1964 Civil Rights Act in order to make sure it’s easier to discriminate against people, particularly transgender ones. In short, he wants to eviscerate the landmark civil rights legislation that is the backbone of all law preventing discrimination in the US.

It wouldn’t be the first time McCrory has fought so hard to undo what the civil rights activists of the 50’s and 60’s fought for. He led the charge to repeal the Voting Rights Act in court, and in the process disenfranchised thousands upon thousands of African Americans.

Looks like Loretta Lynch’s comparisons of HB2 to Jim Crow weren’t off the mark.

 

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