Go Outside or Go to Jail: Top NC Republican Targets Trans Restroom Rights
Lt. Governor Mark Robinson, currently the leading candidate for the GOP nomination for governor, launched an attack on transgender women years after the Tar Heel State’s last GOP governor cost the state millions – and possibly billions – of dollars, and cost him his political career over the very same issue.“We’re going to defend women in this state,” vowed Robinson, according to WUNC, at a campaign stop earlier this month. “That means if you’re a man on Friday night, and all the sudden on Saturday, you feel like a woman, and you want to go in the women’s bathroom in the mall, you will be arrested — or whatever we got to do to you.”“In campaign speeches in recent weeks,” WUNC added, “Robinson suggested that people who previously identified as male should be ‘arrested’ if they go in a women’s bathroom.
Instead, he suggests they should ‘find a corner outside somewhere’ to relieve themselves.”RELATED: Watch: Bigoted NC Lt.
Gov. Mark Robinson Berates Democratic Lawmaker for Denouncing His Anti-LGBTQ Hate SpeechIn a different campaign speech Robinson said, “if you are confused, find a corner outside somewhere to go.
We’re not tearing society down because of this.”Last year at a campaign rally speech talking about “problems” in the state Robinson attacked “so-called educators” and told supporters, “two plus two does not equal transgender.”The Lt.
