Posted on 04/21/2016 1:51:08 PM PDT by Morgana
Ted Cruz on Thursday criticized the backlash to North Carolina's transgender bathroom law after Republican presidential rival Donald Trump indicated he opposed the controversial measure.
"We have gone off the deep end. This is absurd," Cruz said during an interview with conservative radio host Glenn Beck, a backer of the GOP White House hopeful's campaign.
Beck asked Cruz how he'd argue that his position isn't aimed at targeting transgender people but rather at "the heterosexual pervert" who would try to flout gender-specific bathroom laws.
Cruz pointed to his two daughters, ages 5 and 8, arguing that the younger one "knows the difference between boys and girls."
"You've got the Obama Education Department suing to try to force junior highs to let teenage boys to shower with teenage girls," he later said.
"That's crazy. It's not a reasonable position," Cruz continued. "The idea that grown men would be allowed alone in a bathroom with little girls you don't need to be a behavior psychologist to realize that bad things can happen, and any prudent person wouldn't allow that."
"When you deal with people who are repulsive perverts and criminals there are some bad people in the world and we shouldn't be facilitating putting little girls alone in a bathroom with grown, adult men. That is just a bad, bad, bad idea," the Texas senator said, mentioning his experience as solicitor general in Texas handling cases of "child molesters, of pedophiles."
Trump earlier Thursday morning said North Carolina unnecessarily mandated transgender people use public restrooms that correspond to their biological gender in legislation aimed at preventing cities and counties from passing their own nondiscrimination ordinances.
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While ostensibly it is about where does the guy in the dress pee, it is also about changing rooms, showers, locker rooms, saunas.
And these mentally ill men (mostly male, mostly physically intact because less than a quarter have it chopped off) want to be in the same spaces naked to feel validated.
The DoJ even threatened to pull funding for a school district unless the school let the mentally ill boy change in front of girls, relegating him to a curtained stall in the women’s locker room wasn’t good enough.
Cruz gets it, Trump doesn’t.
LGBTQ political correctness is going to defeat ISIS? I think you have it backwards.
Rape can be accomplished with many things other than a penis. Allowing people who just a few years ago were classified as mentally ill (by AMA and APA) into your close space is just nuts.
I have one here at work and I carry everyday in the office since this nut job is on quite the cocktail of hormones you cannot tell who shows up from one day to the next.
Is Ted Cruz that Tex-Canadian guy who got MATHEMATICALLY ELIMINATED on Tuesday? The same guy who kept slamming Kashik for not dropping out cause he was MATHEMATICALLY ELIMINATED?
I have breaking news for all you Cruz Maniacs....he is MATHEMATICALLY ELIMINATED! Just like all the other 17 other candidates. Why are you supporting a candidate who is MATHEMATICALLY ELIMINATED? Do you really think the GOP is gonna give Cruz the nomination in Cleveland? Really? I’m being serious. Really?
This is about the 25th time a Trump bathroom article has been posted today. Cruzlims have extra salty since Tuesday when Teddy was eliminated. Nobody outside of this forum cares about what Trump said about bathrooms. But it’s fun watching Cruzlims think this is going to be a game changer.
Really sad. Trump supporters are indistinguishable from dimmo supporters. Their candidate can do no wrong. Ever.
I think Trump was right when he said he could murder somebody on Fifth Avenue and his supporters would keep on supporting him. That’s not loyalty. That’s mental illness.
It’s getting harder and harder to support Trump. Cruz is starting to look better.
Thank you tank you thank you! Must be wonderful for us to live a perfect country where our biggest problem is bathroom usage which has NEVER been a problem before.
I hope not.
I think they should take gender out of it completely. I dont care if you identify as a can of WD-40, if you are a can of WD-40 with a penis you use the penis room, and if not you use the no penis room. I cant wait to see the new signs on the doors.
Pssssssttt...I have breaking news for all you Cruz Maniacs....he is MATHEMATICALLY ELIMINATED!
Pssssssttt...I have breaking news for all you Cruz Maniacs....he is MATHEMATICALLY ELIMINATED!
You have way more chance of getting killed by a terrorist but that you don’t concern yourself with. Your priorities for our country are horrid.
Faux outrage. Worse then the liberals.
How about when the same transgender person enters the women’s locker room to change clothes at the middle school or high school? This isn’t just about access to bathrooms with stalls, its about complete access to women’s facilities including locker rooms.
I have a 12 year old daughter and I surely don’t want her to be subjected to changing clothes at school in a locker room with guys. Nor do I want my wife subjected to showering and changing clothes at her gym with men.
Glory be! Trump will make a great president! His interest in our economy and jobs should be front and center right behind terrorism. Immigration and refugees are close third and fourth. Bathrooms for me might be 20 or 25. After 8 years of trump, we maybe able to make something like this a priority.
I’m glad you can carry at work. Many businesses do not allow firearms at work. I worked for the federal government and we couldn’t.
Having worked in a similar situation as you with a nut job, it is very unsettling. Stay safe.
I could go on...
And Houston got more rain.
Mine technically does not either but the employee handbook does not address it directly and concealed is concealed ;) And even if it did I would ignore it.
I carry every where I do not have to go through a metal detector.
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