Healey’s ‘hold it’ has critics hopping mad

bostonherald.com ^ | 04/28/2016 | Matt Stout

[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.

[rockabyebaby]

Maura is a lesbian, she’s uncomfortable with men in her bedroom and she probably never uses a “public” bathroom, she’s a raging liberal whackjob hack of the highest order.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Hold it? - better not tell that to the fifty percent or so of men over fifty with BEP - benign enlarged prostate - which often causes urgency in urination and loss of control of the bladder if forced to wait too long (to try to put it delicately) - in fact I know several men of advancing age who have been excused from jury duty precisely because they have documented that they have this problem and can’t be expected to sit through an unexpectedly long court session without personal discomfort and distraction from the case at hand - some insensitive and ill-informed public official telling a rather sizable contingent of the public such as this to “hold it” might receive considerable kick-back.....

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

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.

In a country of more than 300,000,000. I suppose its a start. When the signatures climb to 100,000,000, maybe something good will happen. I'm not holding my breath.

[Sirius Lee]

“This isn’t about bathrooms — this is about treating all people with dignity and respect.”

I don't respect fags and head cases who push faggotry.