Tennessee: More Phobic Every Day

"Dick" Floyd

Tennessee seems to want to become The fill in the blank Phobic State.
Homophobic lawmakers don't want the word gay, er, homosexual used in school, and now one such asshatted, wingnutted, backwoods thinking, cousin marrying, toothless, possum hunting, illiterate, AKA Richard Floyd--a Republican, no surprise-- has tried to introduce the Bathroom Harassment Act, which seeks to fine transgender people $50 for using bathrooms and dressing rooms.
Richard Floyd said, and, indeed, this is a direct quote: "I believe if I was standing at a dressing room and my wife or one of my daughters was in the dressing room and a man tried to go in there — I don’t care if he thinks he’s a woman and tries on clothes with them in there — I’d just try to stomp a mudhole in him and then stomp him dry. Don’t ask me to adjust to their perverted way of thinking and put my family at risk. We cannot continue to let these people dominate how society acts and reacts. Now if somebody thinks he’s a woman and he’s a man and wants to try on women’s clothes, let him take them into the men’s bathroom or dressing room."
Welcome to Tennessee. Goosestep like the GOP or get yer ass whupped.
Floyd has also said, because you can't keep a bigot with the IQ of  a bar of soap from speaking, that his bill doesn't  “penalize anybody” and that he could “care less” what transgender advocacy groups think.
This begs that age old question, Tennessee? What the fuck?
Tennessee has been proposing, and passing, some of the most homophobic and transphobic bills in the country. Tennessee passed HB600, which strips local jurisdictions of LGBT anti-discrimination provisions because, well, they're just fags and stuff. Tennessee also wants the License To Bully Law, which allows good Christians to behave like animals to gay kids because God Hates Fags.....in Tennessee. And, of course, the always popular, Don't Say Gay bill, because if you say it, you might be one.
But still, this Bathroom Harassment business. What's the purpose?
I mean, the bill seems poised to simply make transgendered people into predators, who prowl bathrooms looking for unsuspecting heterosexuals upon whom to pounce. Cuz, you know, that's what transgendered people do. Prowl and pounce. They don't work and pay taxes and behave like human beings, like, say, Richard "I May Start Calling You Dick" Floyd.


via The HuffPo and Think Progress LGBT