04-22-2016, 04:25 PM
(04-22-2016, 03:05 PM)sally Wrote: I could be wrong, but I don't think that meme was meant to demonize transgenders or portray them as perverts who will rape your children. I saw it more as a message that this will now open up the door and welcome any perverted man in with intentions other than just using the restroom.
The law North Carolina passed makes it illegal for transgenders to use a bathroom which doesn't match their birth gender, which is what the Cruz ad and the Schilling tweeted meme was addressing.
To me, Cruz's ad is clearly saying that trans women are not safe to have in the restroom with other women because they're really all just men pretending to be women. And, Schilling's meme was a visual depiction of that same message with an image that demonizes transgender women as scary perverted men. But, I understand how you could view them both as "slippery slope" messages instead.
Anyway, it's already against the law for people to commit acts of perversion against (or with) others in public restrooms and I think Trump makes more sense on this one than Cruz or Schilling.