Posted on 11/05/2015 6:13:58 PM PST by springwater13
Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon and Republican presidential candidate, suggested in an interview Thursday that the U.S. should have bathrooms specifically for people who are transgender.
Carson was responding to questions about a recent ordinance in Houston that would have established nondiscrimination protections for gay and transgender people. Voters rejected the ordinance after an 18-month battle in which opponents argued that allowing transgender men and women to use their preferred public bathrooms would open the door to sexual predators who wanted to enter women's restrooms.
Carson's response: "How about we have a transgender bathroom?"
"It is not fair for them to make everybody else uncomfortable," he said. "It's one of the things that I don't particularly like about the [LGBT] movement. I think everybody has equal rights, but I'm not sure that anybody should have extra rights--extra rights when it comes to redefining everything for everybody else and imposing your view on everybody else."
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How about having the federal government stay the hell out of dictating bathroom arrangements?
Boom. There goes my support.
Yes, the bathroom at a mental institution would be a better answer.
Men - Women - Other.
Works for me. Give the mentally ill their own facilities.
How about we simply stop catering to evil and sickness, Ben?
To hell with “transgender bathrooms”. That’s a really bad idea.
He must’ve heard the little old lady who called into the Michael Berry Show, yesterday. She said pretty much the same thing. She said, “Walmarts has a Family Bathroom, let these people use the Family bathroom!”
Berry wasn’t too keen on her idea (the extra expense of business having to provide), but he sure liked the lady who called in ;-)
Male , Female , Other
How about everyone just look between their legs for a quick primer on which bathroom and locker room to use?
I let her use the women's instructor's bathroom and kept watch.
IT WAS/IS/ALWAYS WILL BE ABSURD!!
Sign would read what?
The guy is sleep walking someone wake him up
At my local Target I actually saw a “Gender Neutral” bathroom, yeah I didnt bother going in there I didnt need that to be in my memory bank. How about my right to go into a woman’s bathroom and not see some dude wearing a dress whipping out his schlong and calling himself a chick
I say just knock down the wall between the men and women's room and make it all one bathroom. Nobody is special. If you don't like it, hold it in until you get back home.
There is no such thing as transgender. If you was born XY chromosome, that can not change. Surgery, pink dresses and painted toenails will not change your chromosomes. You can not change gender.
How about male,female, and an oven. Transgenders are definitely EZ-bake.
Time for the Picard facepalm.
Maybe he meant “unisex” bathrooms.
I’m find with options. Ironically, though, the only ones using it, other than the looney liberals, will be the trannies — which will isolate them further.
>> How about we build pyramids to store Ben Carson’s dumb ideas?
LOL! Build out of what??!? There aren’t that many rocks in the known universe.
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