Andrew Dye/Journal.
Gov. Pat McCrory said he will continue to fight for a “respect for privacy” in the face of a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit over the state’s controversial “bathroom bill.”
McCrory was speaking at North Carolinians for Home Education’s annual conference, being held this week at the Benton Convention Center.
McCrory praised the several hundred families in the crowd for their choice to home school their children. He said it’s important for families to have choices about educating their children and for leaders to respect all of those choices.
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“One other advantage of home schooling is you aren’t going to have the president, the attorney general or the mayor of Charlotte telling you what bathroom (to use),” he said, to a standing ovation.
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McCrory said he would support unisex bathrooms for transgender students, saying that we should give kids with “special needs and unique needs” an option.
“But don’t change the norms that have been working for generations,” he said.
“Special needs and unique needs”? FFS, how dense can McCrory get here? This is as simple as it gets: transgender woman = woman. Transgender man = man. Transgender girl = girl. Transgender boy = boy. It’s quite interesting how McCrory thinks that unisex lavs are great…for those weird people. Not so great for actual people, eh, Pat? I have a question about these wonderful, unisex, transgender persons only lavs, Pat – who is going to police them to keep all the cis people out? Perhaps all cis people should be made to go through years of red tape to get a special identification, and absolutely must be karyotyped!
McCrory blamed the kerfuffle on Democrats, saying there were no issues with bathroom rules until the Charlotte City Council passed a nondiscrimination ordinance to provide legal protections for gay, lesbian and transgender people that included language would allow transgender individuals to use the bathroom corresponding to the gender with which they identify. HB2 was passed in a one-day special session to reverse Charlotte’s ordinance.
Tsk. You’d think those ‘norms’ that had been working great for generations wouldn’t have gotten knocked down by a bit of non-discrimination. Also, this is a “kerfuffle”? People’s lives. Legislation of hatred, fear, and bigotry. Inciting hatred and harm. Kerfuffle. Fuck you, McCrory. I hope you go down in a blaze of shame, a sad footnote on the rigid, atrophied thinking of a conservative bigot.
FTFMcC
Ah, the old “trans people get their own washroom” suggestion.
Because we’ve never tried segregation before.
/snark
Siobhan:
Yep. This idiot can’t even look to the recent past to figure out this shit will not work. He’s still going for a ‘separate but equal’ thing.
He’ll fight ’till the last drop of someone else’s blood. The consequences for him, personally, are not significant. Now that he’s off in a corner of the hater spectrum he hasn’t got a political career worth worrying about, anyhow.
Marcus:
And that’s the big arse problem, right there. It’s going to be other people who end up paying an all too high price for his obstinance. One very interesting thing in the article was a quote from another NC repub, who said they’d be willing to roll the law back, because it’s become too costly. McCrory is on his own in this now, and I don’t think he even realizes that.
McCrory has made this his hill to defend, and he should perish on it politically. I hope all the reasonable citizens of the state throw him and the republican controlled legislature out on their asses. The legislature should not get a pass because they are the ones who passed the law into existence for McCrory to sign.
^ inconsistent with prohibition of slavery and desegregation, positions I assume the good governor claims he supports.
Johnson catman:
Oh yes, here’s hoping he does.