North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has said repeatedly that his concern with allowing transgender individuals to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice is merely a privacy issue, not one of safety. A recent slide in the polls seems to have inspired him to change his tune to one more embracing of the politics of fear. He must be learning something from all those Trump rallies he’s been attending recently.
In a new campaign ad, a sexual assault victim is trotted out to imply a connection that is simply not there, as Charlotte‘s NPR outlet WFAE makes clear.
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In fact, North Carolina good place a guard on every bathroom door checking birth certificates and it wouldn’t have made a bit of difference in this woman’s case, as she was assaulted by her brother in their home.
“At nine, I was molested by a teenager,” Gina Little says. “When I found out that President Obama and Roy Cooper want to force schoolchildren to share the same locker rooms, shower and restroom with someone who claims the opposite sex, I was horrified.”
The fact that they couldn’t find someone who was attacked by a transgender person in a locker room or bathroom, or someone using laws allowing trans people to use facilities matching their gender identity, is telling.
Finding examples of violence against trans people is much easier.
Attorney General Roy Cooper is McCrory’s challenger in the gubernatorial race. He opposes HB2, the bill McCrory signed into law, prohibiting transgender people from using bathrooms and locker rooms that do not match what is on their birth certificate in public buildings. Private businesses are allowed to set their own policies concerning the issue.
Cooper has refused to defend HB2 in court, noting that HB2 conflicts with that state Department of Justice policy and a similar one adopted by the state Treasury Department and saying he would defend the agencies against the state law.
HB2 also did away with all non-discrimination ordinances in the state, capped the minimum wage at $7.25 an hour and took away the right to sue for workplace discrimination in state court. That right has since been reinstated.
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The Obama administration sent a directive to public schools instructing them to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms matching their gender identity.
This is the McCrory campaign’s Willie Horton moment, hoping he can scare people into voting for him. In so doing he has shown just how desperate, dishonest and dangerous he is willing to be in the process.
Watch the misleading, disgusting ad below. Or don’t.
Alistair Wiseman
WARNING TO POSTERS:
Just giving you a heads up about the f@scist, censoring and silencing ways of the Queerty overloads.
A few months ago I was banned on Queerty’s sister site, LGBTQ Nation, over a trans-issue post. My post did not insult anyone, nor have foul language. It was a post that goes to the heart of the trans bathroom/locker room issue. It was not gratuitous or vulgar in any way; at least to a reasoned, thoughtful person.
As a twist on the old business ethics saying – There was nothing in my post that would I feel embarrassed or would object to if it was published on the front page of the New York Times.
Queerty is not interested in diversity of thought. They are only interested in controlling their leftist progressive narrative and will silence and censor anyone who violates that narrative.
dinard38
What the HELL does this commercial has to do with the transgender bathroom issue? Some woman was molested when she was nine and that’s a reason to not support transgender bathroom rights? Where’s the connection? This is one of the most, stupidest f**cking political commercials.
Not to mention that the lady in this commercial sounds like a total airhead.
Bauhaus
@Alistair Wiseman:
Quit your bellyaching. This isn’t the only gay site. There must be tons of right leaning gay sites where you’d fit in better.
Alistair Wiseman
@Bauhaus:
Yes, because that is the real issue. Deep.
Bauhaus
@Alistair Wiseman:
That is EXACTLY the issue.
tsginamarieva
@dinard38: @dinard38: The point of the commercial to oppose transgender bathroom rights because she was molested when she was nine. It doesn’t say where or by whom, or what her assailant was wearing at the time, which suggests that it has absolutely nothing to do with HB2. McCrory himself admitted that there have been no incidents of transgender people harassing, interfering with or assaulting women or girls anywhere in North Carolina, let alone in public bathrooms. This ad is a desperation move by a sinking candidacy. He’s been down by anywhere from about 4 to 10 points in the polls for several weeks. As the election gets closer, and McCrory becomes more adlepated, don’t be surprised if he doesn’t claim that Lee Harvey Oswald was wearing a lacy teddy and thigh-high stockings under his clothes when he shot JFK.
Scribe38
@Alistair Wiseman: Yet somehow you post all over queerty…
Why not pull yourself up by your boot straps and start your own alt right website where you can post whatever you like? No one would miss the agenda you are always pushing.
Scribe38
@tsginamarieva: I hope the bigot goes down hard for the b.s. law he passed.
Alistair Wiseman
@Bauhaus:
I’m sorry to hear that you, living in your insular leftist world, find that censorship, speech codes, safe spaces and other controls on the freedom of expression (which are intended to close down debate) are acceptable and tolerable to those who differ from you.
By dismissing my presence on this website you are embracing and condoning the liberal totalitari@nism that the lefts war against free speech habitually embraces.
Alistair Wiseman
@Scribe38:
Alt right? Somebody’s been watching MSNBC.
The above post, nor any of my posts, have anything to do with the “alt right”.
Bauhaus
@Alistair Wiseman:
S@dist.
money718
He deserves to lose. What an idiot. And am not the biggest fan of Trans.
Bauhaus
@abnerbha:
Electroconvulsive therapy. STAT.
Kangol
@tsginamarieva: Exactly. It’s all about fear. Fear is McCrory’s ace card, though if the polls are even vaguely accurate, he and the hatemongering hom0phobes in his party could face, and possibly lose serious challenges at the polls come November.
abnerbha
I want to go into women’s bathrooms if there are pretty women in there & if a pretty woman wants to use men’s bathrooms, then that is fine with me. I want a pretty woman to go into men’s bathrooms but I wouldn’t want uglies like Ellen Lee DeGeneres and Rosie T. O’Donnell shitting in any bathroom as they’re ugly so Ellen & Rosie can shit in diapers. Ellen Lee DeGeneres & Rosie T. O’Donnell both probably like to have farting & shitting contests in bathrooms, so Ellen & Rose both want to do battleshits contest in men’s bathrooms since women’s toilets got dirtied by them.
Dave Downunder
The comments on this post have been taken way off topic and become all about certain posters grandstanding. Way to go fellas.
Mmmrrrggglll
Lame
ChrisK
@abnerbha: As they say. The most dangerous opponents of gay equality come from gay men who can’t accept themselves ie you.