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Right-Wingers Pledge to Carry Guns to Bathroom to Fend Off Trans Folks
Anti-LGBT activists are taking the newfound role of potty police to the next level, pledging to carry weapons into public restrooms to protect against trans people using the bathroom that matches their gender identity.
The threats came after retailer Target announced Wednesday it would allow transgender patrons to use the restroom of their choice. The policy is a slap at North Carolinas anti-LGBT House Bill 2, which, among other things, bars transgender people from using facilities that correspond with their gender identity, if those are in government buildings; it does let private-sector companies set their own policies. In response to Target's action, at least two right-wing leaders promised to meet trans people in the bathroom with firearms.
The preliminary warning shot came from Anita Staver, president of the right-wing, anti-LGBT Liberty Counsel, a nonprofit conservative legal group best known for representing defiant antigay Kentucky clerk Kim Davis that recently told CBS News it is proudly pushing transphobic bathroom bills nationwide.
On Friday, Staver who is married to Liberty Counsels chairman and cofounder, Mat Staver sent out a tweet blasting Targets trans-inclusive policy. Im taking a Glock .45 to the ladies room, she wrote, before adding what appears to be a dig at the concept that someone could identify as a gender other than that they were assigned at birth.
Staver is an attorney who is licensed to practice law in Florida and the District of Columbia, and who not only serves as president of Liberty Counsel, but also as the director of Liberty Counsel Action, the right-wing groups political action committee, according to her bio on Liberty Counsels website.
The same day that Staver posted her threat about carrying firearms into Target bathrooms, a Republican candidate for sheriff in Texas promised he would beat the hell out of a transgender person who tried to piss in a bathroom where [his] daughter was peeing, according to the Dallas Observer.
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http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/4/25/right-wingers-pledge-carry-guns-bathroom-fend-trans-folks
The threats came after retailer Target announced Wednesday it would allow transgender patrons to use the restroom of their choice. The policy is a slap at North Carolinas anti-LGBT House Bill 2, which, among other things, bars transgender people from using facilities that correspond with their gender identity, if those are in government buildings; it does let private-sector companies set their own policies. In response to Target's action, at least two right-wing leaders promised to meet trans people in the bathroom with firearms.
The preliminary warning shot came from Anita Staver, president of the right-wing, anti-LGBT Liberty Counsel, a nonprofit conservative legal group best known for representing defiant antigay Kentucky clerk Kim Davis that recently told CBS News it is proudly pushing transphobic bathroom bills nationwide.
On Friday, Staver who is married to Liberty Counsels chairman and cofounder, Mat Staver sent out a tweet blasting Targets trans-inclusive policy. Im taking a Glock .45 to the ladies room, she wrote, before adding what appears to be a dig at the concept that someone could identify as a gender other than that they were assigned at birth.
Staver is an attorney who is licensed to practice law in Florida and the District of Columbia, and who not only serves as president of Liberty Counsel, but also as the director of Liberty Counsel Action, the right-wing groups political action committee, according to her bio on Liberty Counsels website.
The same day that Staver posted her threat about carrying firearms into Target bathrooms, a Republican candidate for sheriff in Texas promised he would beat the hell out of a transgender person who tried to piss in a bathroom where [his] daughter was peeing, according to the Dallas Observer.
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http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2016/4/25/right-wingers-pledge-carry-guns-bathroom-fend-trans-folks
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Right-Wingers Pledge to Carry Guns to Bathroom to Fend Off Trans Folks (Original Post)
stone space
May 2016
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Hoyt
(54,770 posts)1. Gun fanciers just looking for an excuse to try out their weapons and training. Zimmerman envy.
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)2. Is he doing genital checks upon entrance?
And, HE does not belong in a woman's bathroom!