Posted on 04/28/2016 9:01:02 AM PDT by massmike
A comment by Attorney General Maura Healey telling those uncomfortable with sharing a bathroom with a transgender person to “hold it” has rankled critics of a transgender rights bill, who said they’d be vilified as bigots if they used the same language amid the heated debate over the legislation.
Healey, an advocate of the bill, appeared Tuesday before a State House panel and advocated for passage of the legislation, which would prohibit discrimination against transgender people and allow them to use a bathroom or locker room that fits their gender identity.
Healey, in addressing the panel, took aim at those who term the legislation a “bathroom bill,” according to the State House News Service.
“If you’ve got that much of a problem, hold it,” Healey said.
Healey’s office dismissed the criticism and fired back at the MFI for using “boogeymen and scare tactics to convince people that transgender individuals should be treated differently than anyone else.”
“The AG has been clear — discrimination against transgender people is unacceptable and morally wrong,” spokeswoman Cyndi Roy Gonzalez said. “This isn’t about bathrooms — this is about treating all people with dignity and respect.”
The back-and-forth may only heighten the fervor around the legislation, which has at times dominated the bandwidth for attention on Beacon Hill, including where Gov. Charlie Baker stands.
Baker’s office has said he “believes people should use the restroom facility they feel comfortable using,” leading some to take it as a potential signal of support.
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Maura Healey ,AG from Massachusetts,says that women who feel uncomfortable with men in their bathroom should “hold it.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K66Ovkw-jWo
You would think a woman uncomfortable with men in her bedroom would understand women being uncomfortable with men in their bathroom............
If I ‘hold’ anything it will be my firm and steady grip on my .45
She is right, it is about dignity and respect. There needs to be respect for women and children FIRST, to protect them from those who would do them harm and or film them in a public restrooom.
Like Hillary, she has her own bathrooms,
and is above the little people who serve her.
The petition to boycott Target for their support of men in the women’s bathroom continues to garner signatures. Currently more than 970,000, and climbing steadily.
Transgenderism is a mental illness and wasn’t even a possibility until recently contrived cosmetic surgery procedures. The DNA tells the truth of the matter.
Its funny that this group used to say that it’s the DNA that made them the way that they’ve chosen to behave.
There needs to be respect for women and children FIRST, to protect them from those who would do them harm and or film them in a public restrooom.
I am confused(sarcasm_) dont we know that child porn perverts would go to great lengths to get into that bathroom even pretending they were transgender?
We are going to wait until a kid is hurt in some way to wonder why it happened?
There is an easy way to fix this:
Install Portable Toilets out in front of EVERY PUBLIC BUILDING and Dismantle ALL Restroom Facilities inside EVERY PUBLIC BUILDING.
Let all these perverted officials stand out front of Andy Gump.
In San Francisco they already have public toilets in front of every public building.
It’s called the sidewalk.
Has anyone polled the man hating lesbians on this bill?
Where do I sign?
Healey IS a man-hating lesbian.
“...discrimination against transgender people is unacceptable and morally wrong,”
No, the law really says discrimination against certain people is wrong. The law strips women of their right to privacy.
Also, as I understand, the laws all include women’s locker rooms where the ladies are in various stages of nakedness.
Your plumbing should match the plumbing of the facilities you use. As for those too mentally ill to know the difference, men who enter the women’s restroom with malicious intent, I’m okay with women, girls, or their parents defending themselves and doing the necessary surgery on the spot.
Go pee in her office...tell HER to hold it...insulting smarmy beotch.
Ladies: just beat the crap out of the adams apples who mess with ya.
These people are crazy. If there’s somebody who’s had the surgery, dresses like a woman, etc., other women might wonder about the size of his wrists or perhaps the heavy makeup, but they wouldn’t be alarmed even if they suspected he was a guy who thought he was a woman, because he’s no threat. (There’s no such thing as “transgendered” - you are what your chromosomes are.) And nobody is saying there had to be a chromosome check at the door - if the person looks like a woman, more or less, that’s okay. A lot of overweight lesbians barely look like women, but they are, and they use the ladies’ room with no problem and they’re not stalking the other women in there.
However, there are even creepier male people who say they “identify” as women, even though they still look entirely masculine, and now these people will be allowed into the ladies room. One of them was actually arrested recently after photographing real women using the bathroom.
And how are guys going to feel when the mentally messed up woman who thinks she’s a man stomps in on them, even though she can’t use the urinal?
The ones who have got to “hold it” are the people who won’t use the bathroom of their biological sex.
People who’ve had surgery and hormones and look more or less like whatever their messed-up minds tell them they are have probably been using the restroom of the opposite sex for years and don’t bother the other users. So even if somebody suspects, nobody is going to be “reporting” them, and probably never has. How much time do you spend in a public bathroom? This is an artificial issue.
But the idea that anybody can just waltz in, say he feels like a girl (or she feels like a guy), and embarrass or humiliate normal people who just wanted to “go” is insane.
We get all worked up over this cr@p in public restrooms and ignore the fact it already going on in our public schools and that includes showers and locker rooms.
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