During a conversation with North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) Thursday night, Fox News host Megyn Kelly pressed him on the merits of his state’s controversial new anti-LGBT law.
Kelly drilled McCrory on her show “The Kelly File” about the backlash the bill’s received. She began the interview asking what prompted him to push for the legislation in the first place.
“I want to ask you about bathrooms because I’ve been in women’s bathrooms my whole life,” Kelly said. “We don’t have the urinal situation. We’ve got like the stalls. And we get to go in, we do our business and like we don’t—it’s not—we don’t see each other. So why are you concerned about young girls exposing themselves or seeing somebody else exposed in a woman’s bathroom?”
“Well, first of all, I can’t believe we’re talking about this,” McCrory replied. “This is not an issue that I started. This is an issue that the left started, not the right. It’s not just women’s bathrooms.”
Kelly went on to question McCrory about a talking point many conservatives have used: the fear of men using a women’s restroom in order to prey on women and girls.
“Typically, male molesters are heterosexual and if they want to sneak into a bathroom they’ll do it,” Kelly said. “But 90 percent of the cases of molestation happens with someone you know. So what is the fear about the transgender situation and the bathrooms?”
McCrory, who was quick to shift the blame throughout the interview, stood by his argument that it wasn’t fear that prompted the legislation—it’s “common sense.”
“Mine is not a fear,” he said. “I’m not doing it—I don’t like the rhetoric that’s often used on the right saying what the fear is. It’s a basic expectation of privacy that I hear from mom and dad and families that when their daughter or son goes into a facility, a restroom, they expect people of that gender, of that biological sex or gender, to be the only other ones in that room.”
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Yeah, everywhere I go and everyone I talk to with children is perpetually in fear of people walking into the wrong bathroom and violating their children’s privacy. You can’t even have a conversation with young parents without the subject taking over the discussion, to the near exclusion of everything else. They’re paralyzed with fear, some of them taking time off work to camp outside their legislator’s doors and demand action. Frankly I don’t understand how state legislatures devote time to anything else with this danger lurking.
McCory: Just put on a happy face!
At the least, Megyn helps keep this obnoxious idiot in the limelight. He probably likes it. It’s good for his state, isn’t it? You know, blame the rock stars who cancel their shows. Blame the sports figures and corporations for their idiocy (NCAA, etc). Blame everyone else for the fact that business, even small businesses now within NC, are fighting back against this GOP governor. It’s not HIS problem, it’s yours and mine (not mine really - I could care - like Trump says, it works fine now, don’t change what is working).
‘This is an issue that the left started’…uh yeah…because all transgendered people are leftists that want to pee in the bathroom of their new sex…and most of them are molesters. Ok yeah. So you HAD to pass a law because…mumble mumble something and call it a ‘bathroom law’ never acknowledging the OTHER parts of the law that are restrictive to other cities and towns in your state because those LEFTISTS STARTED IT. Ummmmmmm.
Well, alright, Megyn Kelly, I’ll give you kudos here. Excellent statement and question. Allowing the NC governor to continue trying to shift “blame” onto the left doesn’t speak well to your abilities (or intentions?) but at least you hit a home run with that initial statement because that’s the gist of this whole “fear” factor – there is nothing to “fear.”