Tony Perkins Celebrates Texas “Bathroom Bill”

Via press release from hate group leader Tony Perkins:

If Texas thought it had seen the end of the transgender bathroom agenda, they were mistaken! After the overwhelming defeat voters delivered to the Houston mayor and city council for its gender-free, anti-religious liberty ordinance, conservatives are ready for the next chapter: more permanent protections against this dangerous and unpopular crusade of the Left. Like most sane people, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick (R) doesn’t think grown men should be sharing fitting rooms, locker rooms, showers, and restrooms with little girls.

To put the brakes on the Left’s campaign, Lt. Gov. Patrick has teamed up with State Senator Lois Kolkhorst, in unveiling a statewide bill, the Texas Privacy Act of 2017 (S.B. 6), which would bar public schools, state government agencies, and political subdivisions from throwing open bathroom doors to people of the opposite sex. Sounds reasonable, right? Not to the Left, which is already fueling up its propaganda machine to pump out false information about the measure would and wouldn’t do.

“I don’t know what problem he’s proposing to solve,” said Chuck Smith of Equality Texas. Why not ask the women and children at Target stores, who have been victims of voyeurs or sexual predators under genderless policies like these? Or the high school girls in Illinois, who are so afraid to undress in the locker room that they wear their gym clothes under their regular ones? The concern is not that transgendered individuals are more likely to be sexual predators, but rather that sexual predators could exploit such laws by posing as transgendered in order to gain access to women and girls.

Although the bill is similar to North Carolina’s H.B. 2, this version is exclusively focused on bathroom and shower privacy. It doesn’t preempt local entities from taking a position on gender identity in the context of hiring, housing, health care, or public accommodations like the Tar Heels’ did. “This is a public safety issue, not a discrimination issue,” Patrick said. “It’s about common courtesy and privacy, particularly for women.” And that’s a goal both sides can get behind!