After Caitlyn Jenner posted a video of her going inside a women's bathroom at Trump Hotel and claimed nobody got molested during her visit, Ted Cruz has hit back on the former Olympian. Cruz noted that he will continue to support bathroom bills.
In a report by The Advocate, Cruz said that bathroom bills, which in general forbid transgender people to use bathrooms that correspond with the gender that they identify with, are of common sense. On CNN's "State of the Union," he expressed his stand with his belief that it does not make sense for grown adult men to be alone in a restroom with a little girl.
He was being interviewed by Jack Tapper when the Republican presidential candidate talked about the video of Jenner. Jenner dropped by a Trump Hotel in New York after the media mogul stood behind the LGBT community adding that Jenner could use whatever bathroom she is comfortable with once inside the estabishment. Jenner was heard saying in the video, "Thank you, Donald. I really appreciate it. And by the way Ted, nobody got molested," News.Mic reported.
Cruz then told Tapper that the concern during the "height of political correctness" is not the Caitlyn Jenners of the world but the law not opening doors for predators. He also noted that the real danger are not the transgender people but those predators, Fusion reported.
Human Rights Campaign communications director Jay Brown said that in invoking the importance of the Bill of Rights, "Ted Cruz had the gall to spread vicious lies about transgender people and laws that deny us critical freedoms." Brown added that the fear-mongering campaign of Cruz about attacks in restrooms have no proof and evidence at all.
The remarks about bathroom bills come after North Carolina and Mississippi have passed laws that are deemed as anti-LGBT. The states have suffered economically since the legislations were signed into bills as PayPal and other banks have backed out on their plans to expand in North Carolina. As for Mississippi, major movie productions have backed out from filming in the state due to the controversial law.
