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Attorney in Texas

(3,373 posts)
Sun Nov 22, 2015, 06:59 PM Nov 2015

Ted Cruz Thinks Supporting Trans Students Is ‘Lunacy’

Source: Advocate

Republican presidential hopeful and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz thinks the Obama administration’s support for trans students amounts to “lunacy!”

Speaking on a conservative radio show Thursday with host Steven Crowder, Cruz inaccurately claimed that the Department of Justice is “trying to force {school districts} to let boys shower with little girls.”
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“Look, these guys are so nutty that the federal government is going after school districts, trying to force them to let boys shower with little girls,” Cruz responded. “Now listen: I’m the father of two daughters, and the idea that the federal government is coming in saying that boys, with all the god-given equipment of boys, can be in the shower room with junior high girls — this is lunacy!”

“And I bet you there are a whole lot of parents — particularly parents of daughters — that are not eager to have the federal government saying, ‘Guess what? Your daughter has to shower with a boy, if he wants to be in there,'” Cruz continued, discounting the fact that trans girls are, in fact, girls, not boys who “want to be in there.”



Read more: http://www.advocate.com/election/2015/11/22/ted-cruz-thinks-supporting-trans-students-lunacy



Of course all of the Republican candidates are awful, but let's not lose sight of the fact that Cruz is perhaps the most awful.

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Ted Cruz Thinks Supporting Trans Students Is ‘Lunacy’ (Original Post) Attorney in Texas Nov 2015 OP
So Chris Christie is the sane one? This is saying a lot> That's too weird even for me. BlueJazz Nov 2015 #1
All republicans are perverts aren't they? retrowire Nov 2015 #2
They can't wrap their heads aorund ANY type of sexuality. pangaia Nov 2015 #4
that graphic is absurd PatrynXX Nov 2015 #3
It is lunacy! Helen Borg Nov 2015 #5
New term- Conservarrhoids... 63splitwindow Nov 2015 #6
LMFAO... Cruz calling sensible equality measures "lunacy". nightscanner59 Nov 2015 #7
Anyone with a minimum of two functioning brain cells rocktivity Nov 2015 #8
Supporting a right wing moron is lunacy Jack Rabbit Nov 2015 #9
What a piece of shit shenmue Nov 2015 #10
Worse than that: he's a piece of shit who is rising in the polls. Attorney in Texas Nov 2015 #11
OMG, Cruz has figured it out! Beartracks Nov 2015 #12
Supporting any of these giant walking haemorrhoids is lunacy! 47of74 Nov 2015 #13
Ted Cruz scares me Alison Hartson Nov 2015 #14
Cruz scares me more Matthew28 Nov 2015 #15
I agree Alison Hartson Nov 2015 #16

retrowire

(10,345 posts)
2. All republicans are perverts aren't they?
Sun Nov 22, 2015, 07:20 PM
Nov 2015

They just can't wrap their heads around the idea of other types of sexuality without thinking something deviant is always going on.

Perverts. They're all raised by the same idea that all gays are just pedophiles. WTF

PatrynXX

(5,668 posts)
3. that graphic is absurd
Sun Nov 22, 2015, 07:28 PM
Nov 2015

Mike Huckabee is so Right wing he scares the right wing. Ted no such luck..

Once upon a time I considered Ted rather nuts but then Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee came along. Ben is rather liberal oddly and Mike is insane.

nightscanner59

(802 posts)
7. LMFAO... Cruz calling sensible equality measures "lunacy".
Sun Nov 22, 2015, 08:03 PM
Nov 2015

Now, now, Ted. Take your xanax and lie down a while. You'll wake up in the 1950's and all us horrible LGBT will be back in our closets.

rocktivity

(44,576 posts)
8. Anyone with a minimum of two functioning brain cells
Sun Nov 22, 2015, 08:19 PM
Nov 2015

Should Think Supporting Ted Cruz Is ‘Lunacy’


rocktivity

Beartracks

(12,816 posts)
12. OMG, Cruz has figured it out!
Sun Nov 22, 2015, 11:47 PM
Nov 2015

Transgendered people are just pretending -- risking abuse, derision, misunderstanding, bullying, family drama... and even surgery! -- just so they can catch a glimpse of boobie or pee-pee in the showers.

Why, there's no such thing as "transgender" people -- just like the so-called "gays"!

Aren't you the clever one, Mr. Cruz. NAILED it!

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Alison Hartson

(39 posts)
14. Ted Cruz scares me
Mon Nov 23, 2015, 03:33 AM
Nov 2015

possibly more than Donald Trump. I can't decide. Cruz comes across to the Right as being more "presidential," but he's just as racist, homophobic, and xenophobic. Smarter in his ignorant way, which is insanely dangerous. Trump is so dumb and inarticulate but he incites such blatant hate from the Right. Ugh. Can you imagine a Trump/Cruz nomination?

Matthew28

(1,798 posts)
15. Cruz scares me more
Mon Nov 23, 2015, 03:45 AM
Nov 2015

Cruz scares me more because he honestly believes that cutting and abolishing everything is the right thing to do. I doubt Trump really believes this to the same level.

Cruz is like santorum but worse. He'll abolish the epa, irs, nws, cdc, educational department, etc. Trump will just be a evil dirt bag but I doubt he cares about such evil.

Alison Hartson

(39 posts)
16. I agree
Mon Nov 23, 2015, 03:55 AM
Nov 2015

I doubt Trump even knows what the cdc is. No way Trump can believe what Cruz does because he really doesn't think beyond fame and fortune. I believe there are two kinds of ignorance: the uninformed/uneducated/uninterested (Trump) and the informed/educated/curious (Cruz). The Cruz camp is certainly the greater evil.

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