For vowing to defend women in North Carolina from men who infiltrate female-designated spaces, something a majority of voters support, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson was criticized by two Republican gubernatorial candidates in his state. Robinson is also campaigning for governor.
Robinson told attendees at a campaign event in the beginning of February that he is committed to keeping men out of women’s sports and bathrooms.
“We’ve already passed a law,” Robinson said, alluding to the Republican General Assembly’s overrides of several vetoes in 2023, “and if we need to pass another one, we will. We’re going to defend women’s sports sports in this state, period.”
The 55-year-old Republican said his commitment to “defend women in this state” extends to protecting their bathrooms from anyone of the opposite sex who tries to use them.
“That means if you’re a man on Friday night and all of the sudden on Saturday, you feel like a woman and you want to go in the women’s bathroom in the mall, you will be arrested — or whatever we got to do to you,” Robinson said. His pledge was met with a round of cheers.
That same day, at a rally in Greenville, Robinson repeated his belief that men should not be using women’s restrooms.
“If you are confused, find a corner outside somewhere to go,” Robinson quipped. “We’re not tearing society down because of this.”
Robinson’s opposition to the male takeover of protected female spaces like locker rooms and bathrooms resonates with most Americans. Yet it earned him the ire of two Republican candidates for governor in his state.
With the help of NBC News, which was happy to amplify complaints against the lieutenant governor, North Carolina gubernatorial candidates state Treasurer Dale Folwell and attorney Bill Graham accused Robinson of hampering the GOP’s chances. Robinson is leading both in the primary, according to polling in the race.
“Mark Robinson is history’s latest example of someone rising to power through hate,” Folwell told NBC. “If he really cared about NC or the Republican Party, he would resign now.”
Graham’s spokesman not only claimed Robinson’s comments“will lose and hurt all Republican candidates if he is the nominee,” but also twisted one of his old Facebook posts about pre-World War II Germany’s strict gun control laws to accuse him of Holocaust denial.
“His comments about the Holocaust being hogwash along with his demeaning comments about women will wreck GOP chances for regaining the White House and the Governorship here in North Carolina,” Alex Baltzegar said.
Robinson passed stage one of the transgender insanity litmus test with flying colors. But his potential gubernatorial counterparts clearly have not. Contrary to their assertions, more and more voters — especially on the right — think legislation to curb radical gender ideology in all its forms is necessary and good.
This is not the first time corporate media and North Carolina candidates and officials have attacked Robinson for expressing what most Americans know about reality. In 2021, NBC News amplified calls for Robinson’s resignation after he said LGBT content does not belong in classrooms.
“I’m saying this now, and I’ve been saying it, and I don’t care who likes it: Those issues have no place in a school. There’s no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality — any of that filth,” Robinson said.