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.
All the problems in the world and we’re focused on bleedin’ freaks.
No wonder we’re circling the drain.
I know that your delusions are yours but I deny that the constitution is yours.
After the chopadikcoffame surgery, Brucie became an it.
Follow the conversation, gov_bean_counter asked for them.
Certain subway lines. Like the D train to Hunts Point. Hell, I would only go there with a SWAT team.
Now they are posing as military experts. Everybody wants to do someone else's job, despite a manifest dearth of qualifications. How would the AMA react to military corporals doing brain surgery just because, without qualificatios, the corporals IDENTIFY as equals of Dr. Ben Carson? Wait, don't answer that!
God bless you and yours!
I asked you a different question which you have not answered.
I’m married. If I became never married I’d become a hermit. So no, I wouldn’t end up with any of them or anyone like them. Not interested, at all.
He will plead, "But, butt(?) i was always a loyal slave of Wall Street and the interests. You can't do this to me!!!! Don't you KNOW WHO I AM???? Answer: Yes, and we don't care, beyotch. Denny,spread 'em and be quick about it. We got a long line out here waiting for sloppy seconds through three hundred and seventy-sevenths and counting! And we ain't got all day!
Is there a company that sells “fill in the blank” PR forms to liberal groups with the words “hate,” “ignorance,” and intolerance” at least once per sentence?
Over the last 40 years, we had given a lot of money to Hastert.
I’d like to say he was just another corrupt politician, but he goes beyond evil.
Anyone who stayed speaker for so long, and NEVER had anyone to run against him... they had the goods on him. He was bought and paid for, owned by the establishment lest they “spill the beans”
The guys that had the goods on him and didn’t spill are just as evil. I hope they all rot in a fiery pit.
That’s a relief! If, God forbid, you should ever lose your wife and become a widower, you might want to give the available actually female but underserved population out there. God made Adam and Eve to be helpmates to one another. This is a sincere comment and not a smartass one.
It was worse than that. WHERE and how did a Congressman amass literally millions in hush money to pay to his victims? What was Boeher paid for his whoredom? Ryan? McCarthy? McConnell? Cornyn, etc., etc., etc?
It’s what the Left does... they control the language. They coin a term. Make you understand that it is ‘bad’. Then define their opponents by that term.
... and America falls for it every time.
“Its a lie”
Yeh that’s the ticket. :-)
The whole rack thing is a joke. I posted some pictures of men dressed a women for the potty wars threads. Way too many took it way too serious.
As I posted. I was being sincere. I take your word for it.
Irrational fear of cars with clutch pedals.
Type Cruz admits to cocaine usage in a search engine, nothing pops up. The video is a cleverly edited lie.
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