The Republicans Are At It Again

They want us to keep our legs crossed and not go to the bathroom, this time in Tennessee.

Gay Activists Aim to Kill Transgender Bathroom Bill
The Nashville Scene
By Jeff Woods
November 17, 2015

The Tennessee Equality Project’s petition has collected more than 750 supporters, all of whom have sent emails to senators asking them not to sponsor the legislation's companion bill. That would kill it. But of course, no one in the Republican supermajority cares about opposition from the LGBT community, so the petition is unlikely to have any impact no matter how many emails are sent.

Hulsey wants to force transgender children to use the school bathroom for the gender on their birth certificates, undoubtedly subjecting boys who identify as girls and vice versa to more bullying and ridicule than they already endure. Hulsey worries about schools having to “accommodate everyone’s thoughts and feelings” and possibly causing little Johnny to freak out because he’s using the bathroom with a transgender student.
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Hulsey is filing his bill at the behest of a right-wing radio host in Bristol who decided it was an issue that might increase his ratings and so he started yapping about it. The host, George West, has worked up a lot of faux outrage over news reports that the federal Department of Education sided with a transgender student who wanted to use the girls’ bathroom in a school in Illinois.

Can you say, “Transphobia?”

The Republicans are doing what they do best, stir up hatred and bigotry to rally their base.