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.”

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    5 months ago

    For the people who are concerned about pervs taking advantage of it (which is the only trans-bathroom opposition stance I even REMOTELY understand) a better way to solve the problem would be changing our public restrooms from the equivalent of pasting 3 sticky notes over a porn mag. Like seriously the only reason anyone is okay with door gaps I can fit my fuckin hand through is because they seem to forget that perverts can be gay, too.

    Mandate floor-to-ceiling walls and doors that actually FIT and LOCK RELIABLY and I’m sure far fewer people would care (except for the whackjobs, obviously)

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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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        From what I’ve seen, yes. It drives me insane that we still have to deal with it when all other 1st world countries don’t, but I guess there are a number of things I could say that about