GOP lawmaker threatens to beat people up if all-gender restroom bill passes

[icymist]

A Republican state senator in Illinois is threatening violence if the state passes a bill that would allow businesses to construct all-gender restrooms.

“I’m telling you right now, if a guy walks in there, I’m going to beat the living piss out of him,” state Sen. Neil Anderson (R) said on the state senate floor last Thursday as he was discussing the bill. He brought up how he would get violent if “a guy” went into the restroom at the same time that his 10-year-old daughter did.

“So this is going to cause violence, and it’s going to cause violence from dads like me,” he said, getting cheers.

“I wouldn’t want a single person in the state to read that record and think that anybody here would come after them if they would do something so mundane as to use the bathroom, a simple call of nature,” out gay state Sen. Mike Simmons (D) said, calling for Anderson’s comments to be stricken.

LGBTQ+ organizations denounced Anderson’s comments.

“The violent language like that used by the state senator gives license to transphobic actors to harm trans people,” said the AIDS Foundation Chicago, Equality Illinois, and Pride Action Tank in a statement. “Enough is enough.”

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/05/gop-lawmaker-threatens-to-beat-people-up-if-all-gender-restroom-bill-passes/

[walkingman]

1. Don't let your mouth overload your butt...asshole. He should be expelled from the legislature.

[Deuxcents]

2. There are plenty of bathrooms with no gender identification..they're usually a one or two

Stalls and ya wait your turn n lock the door. Easy. The bbq place down the street only has one bathroom that I can think of right off hand. Never any problems. Fear and threats is how these people roll.

[vercetti2021]

3. Wouldn't it be hilarious?

If he got the shit kicked out of him by a trans woman? After all it is gender neutral and you did pick a fight. Oh wait...he's just another "masculine" conservative "alpha" male who would turtle the minute he got into a fight. These "men" really think they are fucking Rocky, but in reality, they are Glass Joe from Mike Tyson's Punch Out.

[ShazzieB]

4. I'm sure Anderson would prefer separate 🚹🚺 bathrooms.

Together with a law requiring people to use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender assigned at birth. Sound good, Sen. Anderson? Yes, I thought you would agree.

But of course that would require these dudes to share a bathroom with your daughter, Senator:



That's right, these are transmen, AFAB. Are you going to beat any of these guys up if he tries to use the bathroom that people like you think he should use? Please think this through carefully before answering.

[keithbvadu2]

5. Neil, you ok with this guy?

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

6. Violence, hatred and bigotry is all these maggots have anymore.