El Paso County Challenges GOP Leaders’ Anti-Trans Rhetoric
El Paso County isn’t having any of Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick’s potty mouth.
County commissioners unanimously approved a resolution Monday condemning rhetoric used by Patrick and other GOP state leaders in the ongoing debate over transgender restroom access, even linking their words to violence against the LGBT community.
The nonbinding resolution states: “History has demonstrated that rhetoric and discourse that promotes fear, intolerance, and hate can manifest into the darkest and most horrific of human actions and transgressions against one another.”
Commissioner David Stout, a Democrat who authored the resolution, told the Observer it wasn’t in response to any specific statement by Patrick or others. Instead, Stout cited lawmakers and other elected officials’ general comments and tone on social media and in news reports over the last several months. Patrick, for example, has repeatedly asserted that LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination laws will lead to “men in women’s bathrooms,” even though there’s no evidence to support his claim.
Read more: https://www.texasobserver.org/el-paso-county-anti-trans-challenge/
