In case you missed it, the North Carolina Republicans doubled down on their long-term stay in crazy town with a statement about the NCAA moving championship games out of the state due to HB2 that should both get spokesperson Kami Mueller fired, and go down in the history books as a perfect example of how to dig a hole even deeper.
Mueller, taking the initiative to speak in the first person, says she looks forward to the NCAA merging men’s and women’s teams together.
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It only gets nuttier from there, asking how you can have men’s and women’s teams if you don’t have men’s and women’s locker rooms, despite the fact that no one is arguing for doing away with gendered bathrooms.
She also conveniently ignores the fact that the NCAA has progressive policies for transgender athletes in place, allowing trans men to participate in men’s sports and allowing trans women to participate in women’s provided they have been undergoing hormone replacement therapy for at least one year.
They do not require athletes to change the gender on their birth certificates in order to be considered legitimate, unlike in North Carolina as it relates to trans people using the bathrooms and locker rooms in government owned buildings.
Mueller then attempts to paint the NCAA as not concerned about the Baylor rape scandal, even though independent investigators placed the blame solely on the Christian university.
The statement has been given a thorough line by line analysis by Slate, as well as Charlotte Magazine. Both are well worth reading.
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Slate calls it “deranged,” and Charlotte Magazine says it is a “statement for the ages,” but not in a good way.
Twitter has chimed in as well, and they are giving the NCGOP and Mueller, who just so happens to have a history of making jokes comparing trans people to animals, an earful.
Here are some of the best Tweets on the topic:
If the @NCGOP is so concerned about campus sexual assault, why did they kill my bill (HB815) on the issue last year? https://t.co/CH7woRXksl
— Rep. Graig Meyer (@GraigMeyer) September 13, 2016
bye-bye NCCA tourney hoops games, and bye-bye NBA All-Star game. GOP is doing wonders for NC https://t.co/kbGQwH3mQz
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) September 13, 2016
.@NCGOP has declared war on @NCAA basketball… Seems like a winning NC political strategy. #hb2 #ncpol
— Chris Sgro (@cristoferosgro) September 13, 2016
Reading @kamimueller's #HB2 statement like pic.twitter.com/em5TQlYRtL
— Clay Pittman (@claypittman) September 13, 2016
I'm going to go out on a limb here & say that @kamimueller doesn't seem to understand North Carolina's bathroom law. https://t.co/qoiE8SnwlT
— Ben Spielberg (@BenSpielberg) September 13, 2016
GOP: How dare you call us deplorable!?
WORLD: Ok, maybe that was a bit hars—
NCGOP: [vomits transphobia, misogyny, awfulness in statement]
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) September 13, 2016
Love me some #deplorables! @MicheleNixNCGOP @BillPeriman @TeamTrumpNC @blove65 @mitchellvii @JoeDanMedia @NCGOP pic.twitter.com/jhwIg5OH2U
— Deplorable Diana (@fancygap1) September 13, 2016
The last month for the @ncgop:
1. Surgical precision discrimination
2. Instruct local BOEs to suppress voting
3. HB2/Baylor rape comparison— Doc Kennedy (@DocHeelfire) September 13, 2016
and apparently for writing incredibly sexist, offensive @NCGOP releases, too, @kamimueller https://t.co/9l4JYINlFD pic.twitter.com/y2enJEPjQs
— Laura Keeley (@laurakeeley) September 13, 2016
.@kamimueller Making North Carolina look drunk with every flick of the pen. #HB2 Seriously, go read her NCAA press statement– @TheOnion
— Nick Bankhead (@Nick314) September 14, 2016
Newly minted @NCGOP spox @kamimueller (used to b spox 4 various hate groups) has had way too much wine. #Hb2 #NCpol pic.twitter.com/9bl1Y7mLJi
— Montel Williams (@Montel_Williams) September 13, 2016
https://twitter.com/MsFerlauto/status/775904713363431424
Worst part is @kamimueller & @NCGOP think this way even when sober. They live in a very bizarre world. #ncpol #HB2 pic.twitter.com/sLTrIvBSuT
— #ReadyForRoy (@ReadyForRoy) September 13, 2016
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
The rightwing nutbags love to proclaim this bill is “all about the bathrooms”…………
However another provision of the bill is to prohibit protections based on sexual orientation in any part of NC and makes null and void any existing protections………..
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
I’m generally supportive of trans issues. It’s not always easy. There’s intellectual dishonesty on both sides.
DCguy
@PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID:
Such as?
DCguy
People seem to forget. This bill, outside the bathroom ALSO said that NO city in the state could pass any laws protecting lgbts. None.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
@DCguy: To be clear I’m not talking about the bathroom issue which seems a rediculous for the Right to make a fuss about…all of a sudden. I’m reffering to the use of pseudo science and out other voices with differing opinions within the Trans community
@DCguy: To be clear I’m not talking about the bathroom issue — non-issue in any sane universe. I’m referring to their increasingly uncontested and incontestable gender theories, science (and pseudo science), and dodgy politics which demonises all other opinions especially other Trans with a different perspectives. It’s becoming very authoritarian out on all sides.
Here is Milo.
No not *that* one. The other one–and his the batshit mirror image. An image of all that is wrong with the left letting this nonsense slide, and is helping to fuel the Alt Right.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOOF4a5fbHs
(The critique here is by a trans man)
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
^Oops edit fuck up
1EqualityUSA
Our community is ‘the other.’ There will always be others.
randeman
This, of course, is all about the religious nut bags. Never ceases to crack me up how they make themselves look more and more stupid (and bigoted) and just don’t seem to care.
robho3
I love how NC is loosing long all this money because of their nit wit laws. This is 2016 not 1950 and while I know many republican would love to go back in time and live in the 50’s—- it ain’t gonna happen.
Danny279
Anti-gay GOP vs. anti-gay trans activists. Let them duke it out. The only thing that is really sad is that gay civil rights has been made a victim of this. That NC law destroyed civil rights protections for LGB workers and nobody really seems to care at all about that. Once again, “LGBT” eradicates LGB interests and focuses all attention onto “transgender” issues.
Chris
Eventually, the costs of their stance will force them to “refine” their bill. Let’s hope that businesses keep piling it on.
Next: Any University that plays any NC University in any sport should refuse to play in NC on grounds that they can’t be sure that their athletes and students will be protected.