Ben Carson: Create transgender bathrooms

CBS News ^

[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."

[ChuteTheMall]

I have two suggestions:

1) pay toilets, let the free market decide

2) legalize discrete public urination, and I’ll just find a tree.

[HarleyLady27]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3356973/posts

[Norm Lenhart]

OK gotcha. You are more tolerant than I. The person that hired it would have been out the door.

[stevio]

Oh brother.

[HarleyLady27]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3356958/posts

[kik5150]

you would have to have numerous bathrooms:

MEN

WOMEN

MEN WHO IDENTIFY AS WOMEN BUT STILL HAVE A PENIS

WOMEN WHO IDENTIFY AS A MAN BUT HAVE A VAGINA

WOMEN WHO WHERE BORN A MAN BUT ARE SURGICALLY MUTILATED

MEN WHO WERE BORN A WOMAN BUT ARE SURGICALLY MUTILATED

MEN WHO WERE BORN A WOMAN, SURGICALLY MUTILATED, BUT ARE ATTRACTED TO WOMEN

WOMEN WHO WERE BORN A MAN, SURGICALLY MUTILATED, BUT ARE.....

FORGET IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hoosiermama]

Family bathrooms are wonderful. When dad cared for mom and later I cared for dad I learned to appreciate the family bathrooms. When you are caring for a person of the opposite sex in a wheel chair you will understand how wonderful they are!

[RedHeeler]

FO.

[Dalberg-Acton]

I see. Maybe I’m paranoid, but I think us taxpayers will have to pay for it.

[SunkenCiv]

The past day or so of Carson topics:

• Pro-Lifers Carson, Rubio, Cruz and Christie Lead Hillary in New Poll, Carson Ties Her With Women
• Carson ahead of Trump in NC (Elon University)
• Ben Carson's latest claims - he was homeless, hungry and saw segregation at water fountains
• Carson on the defensive over claims of past violence, pyramids
• The Drive-Bys Target Dr. Carson
• In What Universe Is Hillary Clinton More Qualified Than Donald Trump and Ben Carson?
• Ben Carson's Jeb Bush Problem
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Ben Carson Bad For Blacks
• Ben Carson's Facebook post on political experience is going VIRAL
• The Meaninglessness Of Ben Carson's Views On Egyptian Pyramids [the money quote]
• It's official: Secret Service now guarding Trump, Carson around the clock - at taxpayer expense
• Ben Carson And The 'Weird Factor' (In defense of Ben...)
• Listen to Ben Carson's New Rap Ad Aimed at African-American Voters
• Archaeologists To Ben Carson: Ancient Egyptians Wrote Down Why The Pyramids Were Built
• Aliens, Pyramids, and Granaries? What on Earth Was Ben Carson Thinking?
• Ben Carson: Egyptians used the pyramids to store grain, not bury the pharaohs
• For Ben Carson's Mom, a Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Trump pokes fun at Carson's pyramid theory
• Donald Trump: If Ben Carson hosted 'SNL' nobody would watch
• The Meaninglessness Of Ben Carson's Views On Egyptian Pyramids
• Ben Carson writes about his lack of political experience
• Carson trips over US-Cuba policies
• A tale of two Carsons
• Pro-Lifers Carson, Rubio, Cruz and Christie Lead Hillary in New Poll, Carson Ties Her With Women
• Egypt pyramids for grain not pharoahs: presidential hopeful Carson
• Ben Carson's unusual theory about pyramids ("It's still my belief, yes.")
• Is Ben Carson's campaign one big con?
• Jackie Mason: Ben Carson 'looks like he's falling asleep'
• "Being there" with Carson the gardener
• Ben Carson: Archaeologists Are Wrong, The Pyramids Were Built To Store Grain
• Sounds Like Carville Just Called Ben Carson 'Chauncey Gardiner'
• Trump Now Trails Carson in RCP Average after 107 Days In Lead
• Should Ben Carson Win, Will The Argument Over The First Black President Be Over?

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

“Boom. There goes my support.”
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Carson lost my support when he came out against building the wall on the border and when he advocated a “pathway to citizenship” for illegals.

This guy is not ready for prime time.

[editor-surveyor]

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Tone deaf fool.

So far he has managed to pander to everyone but normal Americans.
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[FourPeas]

Seems almost like there’s a concerted effort at work here. Probably just a coincidence, though.

[editor-surveyor]

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“let these people (who are incapable of having a family) use the Family bathroom!”

Really bogus excrement.

[cuban leaf]

All judges should practice this phrase in front of a mirror so that they know what to say when transgenders try to sue for special restroom privileges:

“That’s stupid. Case dismissed.

If you have a penis, you use the mens room. If you have a vagina, you use the ladies room. “What” you think you are is completely irrelevant. That’s an issue for your shrink.

[cuban leaf]

See my post 95. We can’t give in on the most foundational principles. That is their goal: to rip the foundation right out from under us.

[Whenifhow]

If I ran a small restaurant out in the county, is the power of the federal government going to be used to COMPELL me to have a third or fourth* bathroom???
*******
The administration is doing this to a school district. School provided changing area with curtain in locker room, but the transgender (male disguised as a girl) and ACLU claimed it was discriminatory.

Nov 3 - 11:28 Minutes
Obama Admin Say Illinois School District Violated Transgender Student’s Rights - The Kelly File

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFlnPBGcg8M

[SunkenCiv]

There’s a concerted effort by the drive-bys to make Carson look viable, yes.

[SunLakesJeff]

Dr. Carson needs to learn not to allow himself to be baited into gotcha questions like this.

I really wonder who would set up stuff like this, including somehow unearthing his speech about pyramids.

I smell DNC undergraduates, not to marginalize the predicate.

[TChad]

Political amateurs make amateur mistakes.