Some legislators in the Tennessee General Assembly are having a bad day. A bill to restrict access to public restrooms and public dressing rooms designated by sex to members of that particular sex was introduced and immediately condemned and pretty roundly mocked all day long all over national and state news and blogs.
You'd think it might humble these members. But you'd be wrong:
Rep. Richard Floyd isn't exactly making any apologies for his bill to crack down on transgender people using public bathrooms. The Chattanooga Republican defiantly tells Andy Sher he'd "stomp a mudhole" in any transgender man who troubled his wife or daughters.
Seriously, that's the best they can come up with? Stomping?
We cannot continue to let these people dominate how society acts and reacts. Now if somebody thinks he’s a woman and he’s a man and wants to try on women’s clothes, let them him take them into the men’s bathroom or dressing room.
So I guess it looks like these are the kinds of people who would past a viciously anti-transgender bill that was so ludicrous on its face it took just a few minutes after the bill was introduced today for the mocking to start.
It looks like we have a new hole-digging champion, or loser, whichever sounds best:
“Don’t ask me to adjust to their perverted way of thinking and put my family at risk. I’m just sick and tired the way this thing’s been going.”
What thing? If he means his day, I'm pretty pleased to see it's going badly.
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UPDATE:
NASHVILLE — Sen. Bo Watson, R-Hixson, this afternoon withdrew the Senate version of a controversial House measure prohibiting transgender people from using use public bathrooms and dressing rooms that don’t match the gender listed on their birth certificates.
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“I understand Rep. Floyd’s passion about the issue, but we have more pressing issues before us that we need to focus our attention on and we don’t need to get sidetracked,” Watson said.