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Ben Carson: Create transgender bathrooms
CBS News ^

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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KEYWORDS: 2016election; amnesty; bencarson; carson; election2016; elections; homosexualagenda; houston; transgender
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To: NKP_Vet
I've known many people to have stange beliefs based on their personal interpretation of the Bible.

Besides, anyone is free to speculate about historical events that aren't explicitly described in the Bible.

With regard to his abortion conversion, there are other Republican presidential candidates who have changed their position.

201 posted on 11/06/2015 6:40:36 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: springwater13

Our mafia government, seeking its own level... in the toilets of AMERICA


202 posted on 11/06/2015 6:56:52 AM PST by V K Lee (uTRUMP TRUMP TRUMP to TRIUMPH Follow the lead MAKE AMERICA GREAT)
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To: Grampa Dave

Yes indeed.

And being loopy as a moonbat is a symptom.


203 posted on 11/06/2015 7:03:44 AM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away...)
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To: springwater13

This is stupid and this illustrates a problem with how Carson has a tendency to think in bureaucratic terms. Its outrageous that we would have the government involved in bathrooms. Most places now have “Family Bathrooms” that anyone can use regardless of gender. The idea that a grown adult can’t simply use the bathroom of their gender should not be a matter of law. Its a personal problem and it is purposely being used to force the transformation and further deconstruct gender in society. This is an issue the lgbtwtf activists can not win unless we start giving credibility to their foolish arguments which Carson is doing here.


204 posted on 11/06/2015 7:15:15 AM PST by Maelstorm (America wasn't founded with the battle cry give me Liberty or cut me a government check!".)
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To: Salamander

A gator. You need a gator.


205 posted on 11/06/2015 7:35:55 AM PST by CodeToad (Stupid kills, but not nearly enough!)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

“With regard to his abortion conversion, there are other Republican presidential candidates who have changed their position.”

He claims he has not changed his position on abortion. He claims he has always been pro-life, even when referring women to an abortionist. He said it was his role as a doctor. It would be the same if I had been living in 1850 and someone came up to me asking where he could buy a slave, I would have said “well I don’t own slaves and I don’t believe in owning slaves, but if you want to buy a couple there’s a man down the street that will sell you all you want”. Of course he’s never challenged on anything because he’s Fox’s new candidate of the week to try and take out Trump. If that would happen and Trump got out, Fox would jump on Carson like a bulldog on a pork chop and start challenging him on his positions because their end game is to clear the field for the establishment candidate, whether it’s Rubio, Bush, or Kasish.


206 posted on 11/06/2015 8:23:27 AM PST by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: SamAdams76

Yours seems like the most sane idea, actually I’ve never understood why we have separate bathrooms anyway it’s not like two people go in one stall together. It’s all predicated on the principle that people will behave morally when around strangers in public. We’ve kinda lost that already.

Although I still like having men’s only bathrooms because this way we don’t have the long lines women always seem to have. The urinal really is an efficient use of space.


207 posted on 11/06/2015 8:42:40 AM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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To: FourtySeven
I always use the analogy that I have three bathrooms in my house. None of them are marked by gender. You go in there, do your business, and leave.

In a public setting, just make sure there are locking stalls for privacy. There can still be urinals for men who want to get in and out quickly.

Way too much hysteria over public bathrooms. We humans have very similar bodily functions. I've been using public bathrooms for 50 years and never had an issue. Should it bother me that a woman is in the next stall doing her thing? Not at all. Nor should it be a problem vice versa.

208 posted on 11/06/2015 8:50:36 AM PST by SamAdams76 (It's time we sent a junkyard dog to Washington to run the low life out)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Good point.  Maybe like this?

I found some other possible signs for the transgender restrooms in my Google searchings too.

  

  

If they have a transgender restroom, will it be for both male-to-female and female-to-male transgenders, like these two cases (Chastity Bono and Bruce Jenner)?

If so, will they still encounter this problem in those kinds of restrooms?


209 posted on 11/06/2015 10:33:28 AM PST by Heart-Rest ( "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil!" Isaiah 5:20)
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To: springwater13
As a doctor, he should know there's no such thing as "transgender."
210 posted on 11/06/2015 12:05:47 PM PST by JoeFromSidney (,)
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To: springwater13
When I was a student at Purdue, the Chemistry building had three floors, with a restroom on each floor. The restrooms were labeled Men, Women, Faculty.
211 posted on 11/06/2015 12:07:50 PM PST by JoeFromSidney (,)
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To: springwater13

Must be another leftist media lie.


212 posted on 11/06/2015 12:08:40 PM PST by DungeonMaster (Now I understand why my grandparents quit voting.)
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To: Rome2000

Racist tendencies much?


213 posted on 11/06/2015 10:58:52 PM PST by GilesB
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To: Hostage

Another flaky Carson comment.

This man is NOT presidential material.


214 posted on 11/08/2015 11:58:20 AM PST by miserare ( "What difference does it make?"~~Benghazi Hil)
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To: WayneS

Don’t you remember the American with disabilities act? The dems can easily just tuck this into the disabled Americans paradigm. We taxpayers will pay for it off of course.

Now just how many kinds of bathrooms with be needed? Will there be a bathroom for males who have all the male parts but just like to dress like women? Females who have all the female parts but just like to dress like men? How about men who have kept their male apparatus but have fake breasts and like to dress like women? What about women who have had their breasts removed and still have their female apparatus but like to dress as males? How about women who have had their breasts removed and had a male sex organ? There are several categories of transgender,so how many kinds of bathrooms are going to have to be build in every public building?


215 posted on 11/19/2015 8:22:34 PM PST by cradle of freedom
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To: HarleyLady27

Boy, the GOP must have their talent scouts everywhere. Rubio, Fiorino and now Carson. Money talks and it is a universal language.


216 posted on 11/19/2015 8:29:12 PM PST by cradle of freedom
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To: Rome2000

Don’t you get the impression that running for president has become a great big scam? The candidates get to collect lots of campaign money which will become their retirement fund. They stay in the campaign as long as they keep getting contributions then they get out when the funding is drying up. And off course all those consultants are getting a piece of the action as well.


217 posted on 11/19/2015 8:37:33 PM PST by cradle of freedom
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