Is A stay At The Gulag In Your Future?

Well Todd Kincannon, the former executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party thinks so…

Todd Kincannon, Former Executive Director of South Carolina GOP, Believes Transgender People Should Be 'Put in a Camp'
Huffington Post
By Parker Marie Molloy
10/16/2013

Todd Kincannon, former executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party, took to his Twitter account on Monday to express his opinion on transgender rights. After transgender activist Kat Haché replied to one of Kincannon's tweets on an entirely different topic, Kincannon launched into an anti-transgender tirade, making use of slurs, name calling, and his belief that transgender individuals should be locked away in concentration camps.

In his tweets he said,

“There are people who respect transgender rights. And there are people who think you should all be put in a camp. That's me.”
“I have plenty of compassion for trannies. They should all be locked up in mental institutions and their care paid for by the state.”
“I have no problem with gays but I hate trannies. I think they are disgusting freaks, and they are. Am I evil?”
“I'm totally ok with gays and I celebrate female bisexuality as if it were the Mona Lisa of genital sports. But transsexuals are sick freaks.”

He is not alone, the plank in the 2012 South Carolina Republican platform said,

We affirm the wonderful differences with which each gender is created and oppose efforts to blur or disregard the uniqueness of male and female genders. Furthermore, we affirm that one's gender is fixed at birth and that no citizen should be entitled to special treatment or accorded any special benefits not accorded to others of the same birth gender regardless of how they have altered their anatomy or appearance. We oppose federal, state, county, or municipal laws, regulations or ordinances that require a person to be granted special rights or protections based on his or her "perceived" gender identity.

And don’t think that it is just the South who are anti-transgender, in 2011 here in Connecticut an amendment to the gender identity and expression bill proposed by a Republican senator wanted trans-people to register with the Department of Motor Vehicles,

"Sec. 501. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2011) Any person holding a motor vehicle operator's license whose gender-related identity is different from that traditionally associated with the person's physiology or assigned sex at birth shall notify the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles of such identity and the commissioner shall indicate such identity in the electronic record maintained by the commissioner pertaining to such person's operator's license."

Can you imagine what it would be like if that amendment passed? If you got stopped driving while dressed you could be charged with a crime if you didn’t register with the DMV. The Republicans also proposed an amendment to increase the penalty if you got arrested while dress, something that was a misdemeanor would become a felony.

Think before you vote! Think about all the ramifications. Think about who gets to choose a Supreme Court Justice. Think about all the attempts to cut healthcare for pregnant women and children. Think about all the draconian laws that have been proposed to force us back in the closet.