Yet Another GOP Lawmaker Gets Pop Culture Completely Backwards in Horrible Anti-Trans Rant – By Jack Doyle (The Mary Sue) / Apr 11 2023
Some dongus that no one has ever heard of made his first-ever headline today by calling trans people “demons” and “mutants.” It’s not the worst thing I’ve ever heard a Republican politician say regarding trans people, but it’s pretty high up on the list. Sadly, his statements fall directly in line with the state of Republican politics as a whole in this country.
He’s also not the first GOP politician to get pop culture so spectacularly wrong that you can’t imagine how they could be more wrong. The world champion of that is, of course, Senator Ted Cruz. This latest entry is the first GOP politician, however, to say something so completely dehumanizing to the trans community in an official capacity that he actually ended up apologizing. This just in: hell has frozen over—or maybe he just had second thoughts about the implications of saying the quiet part loud.
Let’s do a little deep dive into who he is, shall we?
Meet Webster Barnaby, a Republican Senator from Florida who made these statements during a hearing in front of the entire Floridian House of Representatives. Why? Because LGBTQ advocates and trans people were there that day speaking out against a bathroom bill that would make it a crime for a person to use a bathroom that does not align with the gender they were assigned at birth. He listened to these people appeal for themselves and then launched into his tirade while they were still in the room. So what exactly did he say?
