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.”
"We are going to protect women in this state…
Except if they’re pregnant, except if they’re rape victims, except if they’re pregnant rape victims."
Yeah it’s never been about protecting women, women are just chattle to christofascists.
The easiest way to deal with this complete dumbfuckery is to abolish gendered bathrooms and add full wall to ceiling stalls with locked doors.
Please shut the fuck up about this there are real problems to deal with
Solves a lot of issues with dependents and access to baby changing stations. Gendered bathrooms are stupid.
Very well said.
Wonder how he’d feel about being told the same thing, but because of his skin color.
Some people are quite dense.
Dudes a textbook “pharisee” christian. Just look at the “personal life” portion of his wiki.
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.
The very same Rush Limbaugh who denied smoking causes cancer and who died of lung cancer caused by smoking.
Cancer still sucks ass, but sometimes? Sometimes it’s ok.
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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
Let’s not treat being trans as an insult.
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
I continue to maintain that the qons are nothing but a collection of creepy weirdos and freaks. What normal person gives all this thought to where trans people relieve themselves?
I bet most of this is right wing projection. Meaning, the freaks and the weirdos that constantly harp on this would looooove to be able to go into the women’s bathroom and are seething over the fact that they believe the trans (women) found some kind of loophole.
Many many many many Republican politicians have been charged and convicted of pedophilia, possessing cp, and trafficking children.
he suggests they should ‘find a corner outside somewhere’ to relieve themselves.
So public urination is fine in North Carolina? Good to know.
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 if you’re a man one year and you take hormones and get surgery and dress like a woman for the following 10 years they’ll still arrest you for going in the women’s bathroom.
These dumbass comments should show everyone that these politicians don’t even try to understand the situation. They are reactionary, emotional, and bigoted; they act in service of their bigotry and don’t care who they hurt.
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.
Who knew Grimace was such a hateful bigot?
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Arent most bathroom stalls like that outside the US? The only reason ours are like that if memory serves me right is because of inherited designs from the 1800s.
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“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.”
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.
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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.
I feel like any time a bigot feels so strongly about something like this it’s projection. I would bet money this dude has some big skeletons in his closet, and it’s usually only so long before it comes out. Also, people who think that laws are what stop people freak me out. Like… You are afraid that men are going to go into bathrooms and creep on women and the only thing that stops them is laws? I don’t do it because I’m not a fuckin creep. Like this guys is telling me that if there were not laws against it, that’s what he would be doing? That’s what I’m hearing.
You… you can’t go to a corner and relieve yourself.
Thats a misdemeanor you will likely be arrested and jailed for.
This moron has just told people to do something that is illegal, in addition to being dehumanizing on its face.
How is people pissing and shitting outside /not/ tearing down society, isnt this exactly the kind of thing that is bemoaned as a sign of society collapsing when talking about the homeless or drug addicts?
I’m pretty sure that’s the point. It’s a double win for them, dehumanize you and get you in trouble for doing the only thing you’re “allowed” to do by their standards.
Republicans make me sick to my stomach.
Someone is begging for his house to get peed on.
Again, the problem is in plain sight - CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST.
Only a CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST would say and push for this shit.
We really need private restrooms. Some stores are going to large numbers of single-user, or family, restrooms. They tend to be very nice.
I don’t think my stance helps Trans rights, but it does help with human dignity.
So “not tearing society down” means piss or shit on the street instead of in a toilet? Am I understanding correctly?
I also love that the thing that’s going to finally bring this society to a collapse is unisex bathrooms. You know, the same kind you have in your house.
