Cruz On Bathroom Bill: Transgender Individuals Aren’t ‘The Real Danger’

Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speak during a campaign stop at The Indiana War Memorial Friday, April 29, 2016, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
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Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said in an interview aired Sunday that transgender individuals weren’t “the real danger.”

“If you pass a law, as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and Barack Obama want, that says any adult man can go into — a girl’s restroom if he feels like a woman at that minute, listen, the real danger is not people who are transgendered,” Cruz said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press. “It’s people who are predators.”

Cruz has said that he supports lawmakers efforts in North Carolina to prevent people from using the bathroom of their choosing. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he would allow individuals to use the bathroom of their choice.

Cruz continued and said, that predators will “use that law as an excuse to go target our kids.”

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  1. “If you pass a law, as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and Barack Obama
    want, that says any adult man can go into — a girl’s restroom if he
    feels like a woman at that minute, listen, the real danger is not people
    who are transgendered,” Cruz said on NBC News’ "Meet the Press. “It’s
    people who are predators.”

    Fucking liar… Ted, it isn’t democrats or Trump writing and passing bathroom laws. It’s your fanatics in the GOP who are scared of their own shadows. The bathroom laws that have been written and passed are ALL from republicans. It has been your party that car camps in women’s uteri. It’s YOUR party that spouts crap about smaller less intrusive government, lower taxes and the rest.
    So I call BULLSHIT on you.
    Take a hike Cruz… You insult my intelligence.
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    Ted, I have news for you. It will be hard for you to hear but it is true. A lot of public bathroom for men have several urinals in them. They’re designed for multiple men to be there at the same time. Ted, there’s a 100% likelihood you have shared a bathroom with a gay person, a transgender person, a bisexual person, or a heterosexual person. Have I forgotten anyone’s preference? Ted, its what a get by traveling all over the country and meeting as many folks as possible.

  2. If Cruz believes that “the real danger is not people who are transgendered,” then why does he support the North Carolina law that explicitly targets people who are transgendered?

  3. The NBC studios haven’t had the smell of sulfur since Novak died…

  4. I swear, most Republicans–at least the nutty evangelicals–are just not capable of logic. Asking them to think critically, logically is like asking a demon to willingly swallow salt.

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