Posted on 04/23/2016 3:03:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Today, HRC released the following statement on Ted Cruz’s despicable new campaign ad attacking transgender people.
“Ted Cruz’s transphobic smear campaign peddles a dangerous brand of hate and ignorance,” said HRC Communications Director Jay Brown. “At a time when transgender women are at a disproportionately high risk for violence and assault, Ted Cruz’s reckless ad puts them at even greater risk. Moreover, what message does Ted Cruz think this sends to transgender youth across this country? We deserve a president who’ll fight to protect the rights and dignity of everyone -- not a reckless, feckless politician who’ll do or say anything to score a point.”
Today, transgender Americans face an epidemic of bias-motivated violence -- particularly transgender women of color. Cruz’s video exacerbates an environment where already four in 10 transgender young people report being bullied by their peers, according to an HRC youth survey..
Ted Cruz has made anti-transgender rhetoric an integral part of his bid for the White House. Just this week, his campaign threw a transgender teenager out of a campaign event. During a prior campaign stop in Iowa, he turned a simple question on education into a bigoted rant against the Obama Administration's decision to support a transgender student, falsely accusing officials of forcing the school to "let a little boy take showers with junior high girls." Previously, Cruz made equally offensive comments during an interview with conservative radio host Steven Crowder.
Elsewhere on the campaign trail, Cruz has decried efforts to lift the ban prohibiting transgender Americans from serving openly in the military, even though the American Medical Association approved a resolution earlier this year that said, there is "no medically valid reason to exclude transgender individuals from service in the U.S. military."
Ted Cruz’s ad highlights his support for North Carolina’s HB2, an anti-LGBT law that forces transgender North Carolinians to use restroom facilities in schools and on publicly-owned property inconsistent with their gender identity. HB2 also attacks minorities by blocking individuals from suing under state employment non-discrimination law on the basis of race, religion, national origin, and sex. Moreover, HB2 bars municipalities from enacting their own non-discrimination protections.
H.B. 2 is opposed by more than 180 major businesses, entertainment and sports leaders, and a majority of North Carolinians. In fact, 61 percent say H.B. 2 has hurt the state’s image nationally and 61 percent also say the law has hurt the state's ability to attract and retain business. A 64 percent majority of North Carolinians support LGBT nondiscrimination protections. Nationally,nearly 8 out of 10 Americans believe LGBT people are entitled to federal nondiscrimination protections.
HRC stands for Human Rights Campaign,(not Hillary Rodham Clinton) which is another mis-name leftist organization.
HRC is THE largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization.
Yeah, because Cruz is culpable for that.
I don’t know if you believe in God or not, but what you linked to is a lie. That is bearing false witness. If not, it is not befitting anyone that claims to be of good character or average intelligence to do this.
It is a lie.
Now THAT’s funny!
You like gorgeous men dressed in drag? Bless your heart, but where I come from we like our girls to sing soprano.
Only because he IS qualified.
LOLOL! Ted says it himself on video, that he used cocaine. Watch it.
Stop subverting our Constitution you liberal.
even though the American Medical Association approved a resolution earlier this year that said, there is “no medically valid reason to exclude transgender individuals from service in the U.S. military.”
What in the wide wide world of sports does the AMA have to do with who serves in the U.S. Military?
Follow the conversation, got_bean_counter asked for them.
So post links to the rebuttals.
Are the people most likely to assault trannies going to even listen to Ted Cruz?
To the wierdo-"American" community it would be a man who has undergone a "chopadickoffame" surgery, some surgical sculpturing and ostensible anatomical remodeling (but no ovaries or functioning womb) and who "identifies as "female." See Caitlyn (nee Bruce) Jenner and its extensive fantasy life. .
For folks who claim total confidence that their guy already has the nomination in the bag, they sure don’t act like it, do they?
If you would agree with what you were purporting, you would say HIS fantasy life.
32 famous make believe artists. If you were otherwise available as a never married man, would you be willing to bed any of them, knowing what you know from the linked article? If not, WHY not? Metrosexuals may accuse you of bigotry. Normal folks would successfully accuse you of, ummmm, normality.
A very sensible policy when riding certain subway lines in NYC, late at night. Don’t you think?
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