“Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace on Sunday said that laws aimed at keeping transgender people from using the bathroom of their choice are unnecessary and that they do not address a public safety issue.
During a panel on the show, a columnist for The Federalist, Ben Domenech, argued that laws such as the one on North Carolina, are meant to keep men from exploiting protections for transgender people in order to enter a women’s bathroom or locker room.
But Wallace did not seem to buy that argument.
“We actually decided to try to find out whether it is a public safety issue, whether it is a problem with transgender people misusing bathrooms to prey on others,” he said.
The Fox News host then noted that Politifact was unable to find any instances of people using laws meant to protect transgender people as cover for committing a crime.
“This seems to be a solution in search of a problem,” Wallace said.
Watch the clip via Raw Story:
Sorry, wasn’t paying attention, was this about bathrooms, voter fraud, women’s “safe” health care, religious freedom, deadly refugees, rapey immigrants…
Can’t keep track any more.
It’s a statement about trans people using the bathrooms which match their gender. And he is absolutely correct. There is not a single incident in the last thirty years of a trans person using a bathroom to prey on anyone.
But that’s the GOP modus operandi. They do a ton of attacking problems which don’t exist and deliberately breaking things so as to increase their power base.
Fox brings on Ben Domenech to discuss public policy. This Ben Domenech:
In March, 2006, Domenech was named as a blogger for the Washington Post, where he would write from the conservative point of view. But only three days after his appointment, on March 21, 2006, Domenech resigned his position, when evidence surfaced that he had earlier plagiarized work that had originally appeared in the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the National Review, and other publications.
More recently, Domenech was involved in a journalism scandal that resulted in the removal of his work from The Washington Examiner and the Huffington Post when it was disclosed that Domenech received $36,000 from Joshua Trevino, a conservative pundit and lobbyist, to write favorable opinion pieces about the government of Malaysia without disclosing the relationship. The payments came to light when Trevino registered as a foreign agent of the Malaysian government.
In related news, meteorologists report sun appears to rise in east again today, and mathematicians announce 2 + 2 is still 4.
Sorry, but solutions for which there are no problems are the only kinds of solutions that Republicans have. If they had solutions for climate change or universal health care or gun violence instead of bathroom etiquette or contraceptives or voter fraud, they would actually be an asset to the country instead of an embarrassment.