Thursday, January 12, 2012
Legislature State Rep. Threatens 'to Stomp' Transgender People in Bathrooms
Posted by Jeff Woods on Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:45 PM
Rep. Richard Floyd is defending his bill to harass transgender people using public bathrooms. The Chattanooga Republican defiantly tells Andy Sher he'd "stomp a mudhole" (whatever that means) in any transgender person who troubled his wife or daughters.
“I believe if I was standing at a dressing room and my wife or one of my daughters was in the dressing room and a man tried to go in there — I don’t care if he thinks he’s a woman and tries on clothes with them in there — I’d just try to stomp a mudhole in him and then stomp him dry,” Floyd said.
We cannot continue to let these people dominate how society acts and reacts. Now if somebody thinks he’s a woman and he’s a man and wants to try on women’s clothes, let them him take them into the men’s bathroom or dressing room. Don’t ask me to adjust to their perverted way of thinking and put my family at risk. I’m just sick and tired the way this thing’s been going.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press, Floyd's hometown paper, is running an online poll on the issue and, at the moment in something of a shocker, a resounding 88 percent opposes Floyd's legislation. Gay activists are calling it the "Police the Potty" bill.
Update: Taken aback by today's sudden onslaught of Internet scorn, Sen. Bo Watson has withdrawn the Senate version of this bill. On the Tennessee Equality Project blog, chairman Jonathan Cole called it "one of the most vicious attack bills ever filed against transgender people in state government."
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Sheesh. I don't know what kind of dressing rooms he has been hanging around but the ones I've been in you just go in by yourself, try on clothes, and that's it.
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"I’d just try to stomp a mudhole in him and then stomp him dry"
Could someone that speaks english please translate?
Good thing he's just a state legislator and not someone really important like a stand-up comedian. Then we'd really have a problem.
It's okay people, we can't forget that all country bumpkin's like this MF are sexual confused and too fucking scared to deal with it. So what do they do, they hate on others and bring them down in a sad effort to make themselves feel better. Why are people like this still in office?
Hey Jeff, when you say "transgender man" I think you're actually referring to trans women. So it'd be great if you could correct that terminology.
Keeping the Daily Show and Colbert Report in material all year.....
better not find one trying to go in the womens restroom,A stomping would be the least of his perverted worries
"Stomping a mudhole" is an euphemism for one of two things: 1) removing a colostomy bag and penetrating the hole with your penis, or 2) kicking someone until you create a new and/or larger asshole, then similarly penetrating that hole. It's interesting that Rep. Floyd is threatening to anally rape the transgender woman in her dressing room. Does he normally use sex as punish for women? Is he secretly attracted to transgender females and/or other men? So many of the TNGOP members police the very sins they like to commit; DUI offenders writing anti-DUI laws, homosexuals legislating against "Don't Say Gay." Perhaps the Representative is hiding his own guilty experience of bathroom sodomy?
Floyd couldn't stomp a hole in a tissue without herniating himself. Just another dumbass Republican manufacturing issues to whip up rednecks like Tony Paredes.
THAT'S why Tony hangs around men's bathrooms. He's not looking for dates, he's looking for transgenders to bash. In the name of Jesus of course. Do you save their souls after you beat them up Tony? Or do they skin your ass up? I'm putting my money on the gay dude.
I called his office today after hearing about this bill on twitter. Hearing how this man speaks about transgender people, its no wonder he's pushing a law like this. Nobody in public office should speak that way and it's absolutely disgusting. I'm Transgender, have used bathroom and dressing room facilities for 2+ years with no incidents. Honestly, he got a bug up his butt and is just going off the deep end over nothing. Besides, how can you enforce a law like this: do a genital inspection at every bathroom and dressing room ... or perhaps every citizen of the fine state of Tennessee should have his/her birth certificate available for inspection at all times ... Just rediculous.
Why would this man be in a women's dressing foom and object to another man walking in there? He seems to have a foot fetish thing going I see...
Your ignorant, and you must be low in votes and desperately trying to get some media coverage and Im thinking your "uneducated, well thought out plan" is gonna backfire!
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It is really sad. Other than all the Neanderthal homophobic crap (and Ke$ha) coming out of Tennessee lately, I have always thought it was a beautiful state, with kind, polite people. Some place I would have wanted to live. I am a transgender woman, and when I enter a ladies room, all I intend to do in get in, use the toilet, and get out, just like every other person. My alternative is using the men's room and risk being beat up or raped. I am not a freak or a pervert. Just a married protective parent with two kids, trying to live a decent, happy life with the lousy cards that I have been dealt in life.
Being denied one of the most basic necessities of life, having a safe, sanitary place to "go" is a fundamental violation of human rights. I know we see sensationalised stories once in the news once in a while of some pervert in a bathroom, but that fear is WAY overblown. Your wife or daughter has a greater chance of being crushed by a falling Russian satellite, than by being ogled or groped by some creep in a dress, in a public bathroom, and no law will stop those perverts anyway. Please just let people take a sh*t in peace! This is insanity!
There I was, trying to have a quiet, nondigital day while rescuing cats, and I finally get on the Internet and here THIS is. Good grief.
I noticed my Kroger has a unisex restroom now, in addition to the others. I guess that's the family restroom, but I don't know. If you want to be in a restroom by yourself, go to the family one.
"We cannot continue to let these people dominate how society acts and reacts. ", Floyd states. It appears that not only does Tennessee have a representative who represents only those who fit his ideology but his idea for those who don't shall receive a "stomping". We've seen similar stompings of those who were deemed to be unworthy to have protection and rights throughout history. Nazi Germany, Pre-Civil Rights... the list could go on and on. Fear of what is different or of who are different is a form of Xenophobia. That same fear can lead to bullying and to hate crimes. It is abhorable to think that history continues to repeat itself in ways reminiscent to both this country's and other's dark pasts.
@Donna Locke: I would love it if more public places would have unisex, family restrooms. It is a great solution to people's bizarre restroom phobias.
People actually elected this man to represent their best interests.
Think about that. Not for too long, though, because you'll die a little on the inside.
Isn't this the guy from "Deliverance" who was trying to make the other guy squeal like a pig?
Tony, reading your post and looking at the avatar, i can't help but have that old cliche about hats and cattle spring immediately to mind. If you sounded like a reasonable person i could give you a lot of reasonable answers, but since you don't I'll just point out that Transsexual women regularly use the ladies room all across the country, in big cities and small towns, and 99.99% of the time no one notices or cares.
And they will continue to despite dumb-ass legislators and blow-hard internet bullies. Good luck enforcing it (and i can't wait for the day when you assault a "man in a dress" and then find you you just beat up a natural born female. I'll raise a glass in your honor on that day!
Dear Mr. Floyd,
You cannot possibly imagine the consternation and concern your report of your families gender problems has caused me. I truly feel for you.
A suggestion, however, for your peace of mind. Perhaps stop dragging your wife and children with you when you visit gay bars. I think it would help you immensely.
Sincerely,
Kenneth Thomas
if you are trans gender you should use the restroom of the sex you have genitals for, if u have a penis you should use the men's room.
I'm soooooooo glad that the GA is focused like a laser on jobs (sarcasm alert)
With a modest wife that worked in a large Cool Spring office that had a
transgender employee, it was very embarrassing for her to work with
this other employee that would dress as a woman on certain days and
use the women's restroom and as a man on other days using the men's
restroom. The company's position was "live with it!" Solution should be
a single stall restroom that's for anyone!
I'll just leave this here:
http://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Poops-My-Bo…
Mmmm, nothing says good, wholesome, Conservative Christian Family Values like assaulting someone weaker than you.
"if I was standing at a dressing room and my wife or one of my daughters was in the dressing room and a man tried to go in there..."
I don't get it. Do Rep. Floyd's wife and daughters not know how to lock a dressing room door?
"Stomp a mudhole in him" sounds suspiciously like a euphemism for anal rape.
Has this EVER even been a problem?? Seems to be pandering in the most despicable way. I wish that our elected officials would spend all of this wasted energy attempting to fix some real problems other than using nonsensical issues to rile up the lunatics in their base. Quit embarrassing Tennessee, idiots.
@Auntie Warhol
If he actually did try this, he would probably find himself being the recipient of the "mudhole" stomping..
dear wtf, if a trans man (born female and presents as male) were to attempt entering the females restroom. Kind mr Floyd is going to stomp mudholes in her/him because he cant tell.
neither can most people, i have female relatives with more masculine features than most guys these days.
to all the smart people, just lock the stall when you enter one and fear not Mr. Floyd's mudhole stomping team, also carry mace in case you see him approaching since he has already made it clear he intends to harm you unprovoked, it will be self defense.
really, all the transgender people that can should march in Floyds home town. We should make a transgender day there and have a big party in his honor.
http://www.glaad.org/2010/11/08/attend-an-event-to-observe-transgender-day-of-remembrance-2010
Floyd's thinking is the reason remembrance days have to exist. That person needs to resign immediately.
@wft. Actually that is incorrect. People should be able to use the restroom of the gender they identify with. Transgender is not about sexual organs, it's about who the person is on the inside. Also, Transgender folks are no threat to anyone. On the contrary it's the transgender women and men themselves who are at risk of being subjected to hate crimes from ignorant mean spirited people.
Americans and thier legislators need to just live and let live and stop trying to deny basic rights to others. Especially the legislators, who should be putting laws into effect to protect people's right to safety etc rather than encourage discriminatory policies. And to anyone out there who has never had the privilege of knowing a transgendered person, you are truly missing out because in my experience transgendered individuals are some of the kindest most extraordinary people you will ever meet. They deserve our respect, dignity and support.
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If some Knucklehead wants to go through the trouble of putting on panties, bra and a skirt to get a peek at my Ole" ladies snitzle, I say go for it. Have'nt run across that one yet, So I say.................Let people be who they are, IF they're wrong, and God don't like it, they'll find out soon enough. Not anyones place to tell someone else how they should feel or dress.
If my little girl wants to look like Gene Simmons when she grows up, that will be HER choice and I will love her just the same, (although Paul Stanley's cuter!! LMAO.)
Point is, stop putting YOUR shit on people that scare you ya old Fucknuggett.
Now that is out of the way, perhaps Rep. Richard Floyd can get around to explaining his legislative proposals for creating new employment oportunities in Tennessee...
Do suppose that Rep. Floyd ever went by the nickname "Dick"? You know, as like Richard "Dick" Nixon?
You'd think bathrooms were specially designed for gentiles or something. Fact of the matter is that aside from urinals they are largely THE SAME. A toilet is a toilet and surprise! They are in stalls! No one has to know if a person is transgender or not. But wait, oh no! What about the transgender woman who are obviously trans, ones who don't "pass" particularly well? I've been there, to an extent still am and let me tell you as awkward as this guy thinks it will be for his daughters and wife to deal with me freaking peeing it is tons more awkward for me to actually work up the courage to walk on in there.
Plus, if people were supposed to go into bathrooms based on birthsex then transgender MEN (for you intellectual mice that is a "man who is stuck in a woman's body") get go into the ladies room. Testastorone masculizes them a whole lot more than estradiol feminizes transwoman. How safe would your daughters feel with burly bearded transmen having to use the same bathroom as them? Hmmm.... suddenly having people go into the bathroom based on gentiles might make a little less sense.
Do any of you ever listen to the radio program Fool's Paradise on WFMU in New Jersey? You can listen online (and should; it's great). At the opening of each show, there's a mashup of loud music and amusing movie/TV quotes. One of the quotes is "If you don't straighten up, boy, I'm gonna kick a mudhole in your backside and stomp it dry!" It's said in a Slim Pickens-like voice, possibly by Slim Pickens. I'd never heard the expression anywhere else until now.
I'll own up and admit that I'm mildly uncomfortable around obviously transgender people, and wouldn't be any less so sharing a public restroom with one. My mild discomfort does not need to drive public policy, however. Neither I nor anyone else has a right to a life that is 100% congenial to their hangups. Transgender people have to live with a lot more uncongeniality than I do. If they can survive their encounters with other people then I can certainly deal with my encounters with them.
Also, while some comparisons to the difficulties of African Americans in the past can get a little strained, I think we can make one here. Many white people were genuinely alarmed at sharing public bathrooms with black people at one time. They probably worried about safety and cleanliness as well as the more symbolic ramifications. They had to get over it. While we can make shallow observations about mismatches between users and equipment in the case of transgender people, in practice there's no problem, so the problem boils down, again, to what's in other people's heads about the minority involved. Let's get over it again.
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It's a much simpler, less complicated, more predictable world that you live in, isn't it, Tony? Perhaps that's what the paredes enclose. It's a lot more complicated out here.
Hey Tony, I hate to break it to you, but there are plenty of transgendered Republicans that have to pee and sh*t. I guess you'd rather they go on the courthouse lawn and not into an appropriate facility.
BTW: Transgendered people are not necessarily gay as many assume; however, they are all someone's child, many are someone's parent and most are siblings. Also, for the most part, most people have had dealings with transgendered people, they just don't know it.
The old adage; "Judge not lest you be judged", which is biblical is really what's at issue here. This is not a political issue nor a moral issue, but one of judging your fellow man or woman; and it's not up to you or me to say what another persons gender identity is. We are challenged to love each other no matter what. Even if I disagree with you Tony and Rep. Floyd, I hold out hope that you are someone who can eventually love another that doesn't fit your "normal" and in turn be loved as well.
