Georgia Senator Vows to Protect Girl, But Then Runs Away After Learning She Is Trans

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Georgia Senator Vows to Protect Girl, But Then Runs Away After Learning She Is Trans
During a visit to lobby legislators on transgender issues, Senator Carden Summers (R) knelt down and told a child he would protect her. When he learned she was trans, he backed away.

ERIN REED
FEB 16, 2024


Lena and Aleix speaking to Senator Summers, before he realized he was speaking to a transgender child.

On Feb. 6, a group of families met to lobby senators on issues affecting the local transgender community in Georgia. One mother, Lena Kotler, decided to take her two children with her to give the topic a human face. While waiting to meet with Democratic Sen. Kim Jackson, who they had heard was a big supporter of LGBTQ+ rights, another senator passed by — Republican Sen. Carden Summers, the primary sponsor of the state’s bathroom ban bill. Little did he know that one of the children he would be interacting with, Aleix, 8 years old, was a transgender child.

According to Kotler and other families who were present, the senator stopped to say hello. That’s when Kotler spoke to Senator Summers about how she was there with her kids to “talk to legislators about keeping her kids safe.” Although she did not mention that one of her children was trans, they were present with LGBTQ+ signage - something the Senator apparently missed when he knelt down in front of Aleix and said, according to Kotler, “Well you know, we’re working on that and I’m going to protect kids like you.”

Kotler then replied, “Yeah - Alex is trans, and she wants to be safe at school, she wants to go to the bathroom and be safe.”

That is when, according to multiple witnesses, Sen. Summers stood up and fumbled his words, repeating, "I mean, yeah, I'm going to make sure she's safe by going to the right bathroom," continuing to use the correct pronouns for Aleix. When asked if he would make her go to a boy's bathroom, he then allegedly backed away, saying, "You're attacking me," turned around, and walked off quickly.

The exchange was a unique encapsulation of why anti-trans bills that ban transgender people from public spaces that match their gender identity have proven ineffectual in the past. In numerous hearings over bathroom bans, transgender people often point out that cisgender individuals cannot always tell who is and is not trans. Enforcement of anti-trans policies like Sen. Summer's bill, which would ban transgender youth from bathrooms of their gender identity, will inevitably catch cisgender people who are gender nonconforming in the same net. Worse, it would force transgender kids into the wrong bathroom — kids who even the senator who wrote the bill innately realized he needed to protect from bathroom harassment before learning the child was trans.

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[jpak]

1. "Senator Summers"...Liar, fucking coward and hater

Yup

[BigOleDummy]

2. A more...... balanced....

.... nice...... sane person would see the pretty little girl in front of him and that would be THAT! But no...... his hate just had to rise.

[mountain grammy]

3. K&R

Sorry he missed an opportunity to learn something.

[vercetti2021]

4. Spineless worm

You ran away from an 8 year old girl! Oh such a big "man" you are there senator. Go fuck yourself you trog

[GiqueCee]

5. I'm an old, straight, white guy, but...

... when I hear weak minds demand simplistic answers to complex questions, such as the validity of someone's chosen identity, I ask them, "Do you know why men have nipples?" That question elicits a startled reaction, but they always surrender to their curiosity and say, "No. Why?"
Because ALL humans, in deed, all mammals, are FEMALE during the first few weeks of gestation. The "Y" chromosome manifests itself at infinitely varied intervals during the process. The vast number of developmental processes occurring simultaneously are nearly impossible to quantify, and the potential variability of these developmental processes is literally infinite.
So, children are born gay every day. And children are born with what might be called polar variants, such as the difference between what gender their genitalia suggest they are, and what their minds tell them they are. And what their minds tell them they are is so strong, and their certainty so absolute, that they willingly endure all manner of abuse from ignorant fools in order to fulfill their destiny as the see it. Their awesome courage is to be admired.
So, Senator Summers, do your homework before you condemn that child. Or, better yet, just shut the fuck up.

[Timeflyer]

6. Too cowardly to face the children he's victimizing.