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Trans people face ‘horrifying’ rhetoric at statehouses
The Associated Press ^ | February 27, 2023 | By ANDREW DeMILLO (D-AP)

Posted on 02/27/2023 6:11:09 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — It was pharmacist Gwendolyn Herzig’s first time testifying before a legislative committee when she spoke to several Arkansas lawmakers in a packed hearing room this month about a bill restricting gender-affirming care for minors.

Herzig, who is transgender, spoke out against the legislation and told the panel that one of the biggest obstacles trans people face is a lack of empathy. Only a few minutes later, a Republican lawmaker asked her an inappropriate question about her genitalia.

“It was horrifying,” she said.

During follow-up questions, Republican Sen. Matt McKee asked Herzig if she is transgender.

When she said yes, he asked: “Do you have a penis?”

The question was met with jeers and audible gasps in the packed committee room.

“That’s horrible,” Herzig responded, telling McKee that asking her such a question was inappropriate and noting she was testifying as a health care professional.

“I had never been so publicly humiliated in my life,” Herzig told The Associated Press in an interview days later.

Herzig said she probably would not have testified had she known she was going to be asked about her genitalia.

“I felt like I was pretty much prepared for any combative question,” she said. “Except that.”

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; homosexualagenda; notanmd; perverts
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1 posted on 02/27/2023 6:11:09 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These people are truly insane.......................


2 posted on 02/27/2023 6:12:21 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“I had never been so publicly humiliated in my life,” Herzig told

Fake outrage from a fake woman.


3 posted on 02/27/2023 6:12:35 AM PST by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


4 posted on 02/27/2023 6:13:05 AM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: Red Badger

Surprised “she” didn’t refer to “herself” as Lola.


5 posted on 02/27/2023 6:13:54 AM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Horrifying rhetoric,” like facts?


6 posted on 02/27/2023 6:14:25 AM PST by fwdude (Society has been fully polarized now, and you have to decide on which pole you want to be found.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No one is trans. Slicing organs is not “gender affirming care.” Delusions should not be validated.


7 posted on 02/27/2023 6:14:40 AM PST by I want the USA back (News media are pond scum. My pronouns: Haha, heehee, hoho, hoo hoo. )
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To: dynachrome

Gwendolyn Herzig is an embarrassment to the United States, to the human race, and to the Milky Way galaxy.


8 posted on 02/27/2023 6:15:33 AM PST by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Transgender freaks are horrible, perverts so it is all good.


9 posted on 02/27/2023 6:15:55 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (The Ukraine is dead, the head just doesn't know it yet.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Apparently, one is permitted to be a complete freak. One is not permitted to question the complete freak about his freakishness.


10 posted on 02/27/2023 6:16:29 AM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

One of today’s N examples (where N is a large number) that journalists compete with NEA members for the bottom of the IQ barrel.


11 posted on 02/27/2023 6:18:17 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I read the title as “Trans people face ‘horrifying’ rhetoric at steakhouses”.

Need more coffee.

:-D


12 posted on 02/27/2023 6:18:21 AM PST by pax_et_bonum (God is good, He loves us, and He is always with us.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Herzig said she probably would not have testified had she known she was going to be asked about her genitalia.”

Well hell.......wasn’t that the point of the WHOLE hearing???

What did he think he was gonna ask......what his favorite color is???


13 posted on 02/27/2023 6:20:50 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Red Badger

“...These people are truly insane.....”

Without a doubt.
And it wasn’t that long ago, they were kept locked up in state mental institutions, not out in the general populace spewing their insane garbage.


14 posted on 02/27/2023 6:21:56 AM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They’re facing reality.


15 posted on 02/27/2023 6:22:27 AM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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“I had never been so publicly humiliated in my life,” Herzig told The Associated Press in an interview days later.

Says the dude who goes out in public dressed as a girl...

I think these people are actually into humiliation - as a sex fetish.

16 posted on 02/27/2023 6:24:06 AM PST by SamAdams76 (4,895,899 Truth | 87,656,930 Twitter)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trans people , You mean mentally deranged people don’t you?


17 posted on 02/27/2023 6:25:10 AM PST by spincaster
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To: dynachrome

Re #3, if I was on a date and found out it had a penis, it would be fish food real quick.


18 posted on 02/27/2023 6:25:10 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The horror! The horror! - Col. Kurtz


19 posted on 02/27/2023 6:26:04 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Remember what FJB Brandon said, "...more than half of the women in my administration are women.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maybe next time you should ask He/She/It if they have a dead anchovy between their legs


20 posted on 02/27/2023 6:30:45 AM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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