Ted Cruz Responds to Caitlyn Jenner's Bathroom Break

[TomCADem]

Source: NBC

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, responded to reality TV star and transgender activist Caitlyn Jenner and doubled down on his criticism of Donald Trump and others who have come out against so-called "bathroom bills" like the one passed in North Carolina last month.

In an interview with NBC's Chuck Todd, Cruz claimed Pres. Barack Obama, former Sec. Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump want to pass a law "that says any adult man can go into a girl's restroom if he feels like a woman at that minute."

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During a recent appearance on "The Today Show," Trump was asked about the controversial legislation and said Jenner could use any bathroom she wanted at Trump Tower. Cruz swiftly criticized Trump for his comments.

Jenner then took Trump up on his offer, posting a video to Facebook where she walks out of the restroom at a Trump property. Referencing Sen. Cruz, she says, "By the way Ted, nobody got molested."

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/ted-cruz-responds-caitlyn-jenner-s-bathroom-break-n565351

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It is a bigot showdown with Ted Cruz scapegoating the LGBT community and Donald Trump scapegoating immigrants and Muslims. Who will win the Republican hate-fest?

[olddad56]

1. I can imagine Ted wanting to go into the woman's restroom.

just to have a look around.

[NurseJackie]

4. They project their own secret desires and fetishes on others...

... in the hopes that people won't realize that they actually desire the things they admonish.

And I know it's unfair to criticize someone's looks, people can't help their genes... but isn't Ted Cruz one of the creepiest guys you've ever seen. Even in his "glamor" professional shots he looks like a wanted poster from some "To Catch a Predator" episode.

[donnasgirl]

6. Grandpa Muenster

Comes to mind, but at least he was funny, Ted Cruz has the personality of a good case of diarrhea.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. UGH. since when is caitlyn a trans activist.

:vomit:

[IronLionZion]

12. She's a republican nt

[houston16revival]

3. Democrats greatest advantage

is, no matter who our candidate ultimately is, we are not led
by narrow-minded pea brain people with no understanding, interest, or
appreciation for differing points of view.

Just like Obama. He may have compromised, but he was never surprised by
issues or positions. He knows what is going on at any point in time.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. The Republican Dennis Hastert always used the restroom of his birth gender. . . . nt

[question everything]

7. Trump and Jenner - two narcissists who cannot let a TV camera

pass by without making an entrance

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. NC: "Ladies room full of white women"

[greymattermom]

10. How about Ben Barres

Stanford neuroscientist.
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2013/10/04/transgender-professor-advocates-for-women-in-science/

[Aerows]

13. Forget a six pack

Dude has a 12 pack!

[jmowreader]

21. Shawn Stinson is one scary-looking dude

He probably scares the shit out of the white men in the men's room.

[The Second Stone]

9. Cruz is running for bathroom monitor?

Ain't that disgusting? I sure as hell don't want to have to use a men's room with him in it.

[greymattermom]

16. well, that question needs to be asked

Do we all need to carry out birth certificates?
Who will monitor the bathrooms?
is this a paid job?
What if your birth certificate doesn't match your current appearance?
Who will make sure the police aren't called?

[The Second Stone]

17. I'm going to answer each of your questions in the order asked

1. Yes. Long form.
2. Hu will monitor the bathrooms.
3. Yes.
4. None of us using public restrooms by ourselves are still babies.
5. Hu will make sure the police are called.

[L. Coyote]

11. Issues like this are the grist of Republican madness. They embarrass themselves at their peril.

The good news, they have moved on from promoting their own genitals during debates to debating about other people's genitals.

That may seem like digression, and it is, but at least we don't have to hear them promoting their own any more.

[sofa king]

14. Hee hee!

Do we dare call it "progression"?

[keithbvadu2]

15. Republicans want to keep it same sex to separate the genders.

Republicans want to keep it same sex to separate the genders.

Like Dennis Hastert setting up a chair so he could watch young boys naked in the shower.

No opposite gender peeking problems there.

[Chicago1980]

18. But I thought Jenner was a Cruz supporter?

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[BlueStater]

19. Ugh. The trans community REALLY needs a better celebrity than Cait Jenner.

A narcissistic asshole that killed a woman and got away with it. Not exactly the best representation of a transgender person.

[Jack Rabbit]

20. On thing Cruz, McCrory and other small minded people must get over

. . . is that a transgender woman is not a man who feels like a woman "at that minute." She probably felt like a woman long before beginning the process of sexual reassignment.

When I was small -- in the fifties, a time Christian rightists think of as a golden age -- my parents told me that some times, but not all that often, it is hard to tell a child's sex birth. So I came to understand something a Hebrew priest of the first or second millennia BC could not have possible understood. What I don't understand is how Christian bigots of the 21st century AD fail to understand it. The only excuse they have is willful ignorance, and that is no excuse at all.