TV Ad Combats Transgender Restroom Rule

[The Straight Story]

TV Ad Combats Transgender Restroom Rule
City Allows Transgender Residents To Use Men's Or Women's Restrooms

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- A blond girl heads from a playground into a women's restroom. A scruffy man, lurking outside, darts in behind her. "Your City Commission Made This Legal," the words on the TV screen read.

The dark ad came from opponents of a gender identity provision added last year to the city's anti-discrimination ordinance, which now allows the city's roughly 100 transgender residents to use whichever restroom they're most comfortable using.

Foes want to repeal the new protection with a March 24 ballot measure that has divided Gainesville, a generally gay-friendly university city surrounded by staunchly conservative north Florida.

Those who support the transgender protections say their opponents are really unleashing a broader attack on the rights of gay, lesbian and transgender individuals in general.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/18452010/detail.html#-

[TahitiNut]

1. Despicable. As though they'd prefer that "scruffy man" prey on little boys???

When will people get it through their thick skulls that predators are predators?? It doesn't have a fucking thing to do with sexual orientation, race, gender, religion, or ethnicity. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

[liberalmuse]

2. That's disgusting.

What does a pedophile/rapist lurking outside a women's restroom have to do with being transgendered or gay? My guess is that a child rapist would dart in regardless of that law. I'm sick of bigots spreading hatred, fear and lies in this manner.

[vanderBeth]

3. Yeah, because Transgender=Sexual Predator

:sarcasm:

[Starry Messenger]

4. Gross!

"The city commission approved the restroom provision by a 4-3 vote a year ago. Before the ink could dry, Bible-quoting opponents angrily began working for its repeal.

"You are trying to operate in a realm you do not have the authority to operate in," one pastor, George Brantley, told the commissioners."

Fundies are getting pretty bold with the their propaganda! This is a new low. And it looks like most of them have stopped even pretending they believe in the rule of law. All of these Biblical law busy-bodies need to pack it up and find their own place to live.

[moggie]

5. What's that pastor's authority?

I must have missed the parts of the bible which talk about transgender toilet use.

[Starry Messenger]

8. No doubt!

I'd love to see what bible verse they are trying to torture into spin to ban this. Heck, are there any references to toilets?

[moggie]

9. Deuteronomy has rules for where and how to crap

When you're camped, be sure to bury your poo, because God doesn't like to see it lying around. That's all I remember.

[madamesilverspurs]

6. Thanks to Dobson

Colorado had a similar idiocy on the ballot. It was defeated.

Amazing, isn't it, that these so-called christians are able to discard any facts, dismiss any reality in order to view any issue through the lens of their own obsession with everyone else's genitalia. Scary.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. Spreading the usual lies

Used to be that the right would say all gays were child molesters. Now apparently it is transgender folks.
One thing that could combat this would be for some brave transgender folks to get up an ad of their own, showing that they are not criminals waiting to prey on anyone. Doubt if any of them would look like the scruffy man from the right wing ad.