Gay rights foe Randy Thomasson, executive director of Save
California, on Tuesday called a transgender man a “lady” on cable
television.
Thomasson appeared on CNN Newsroom opposite Masen Davis,
executive director of the Transgender Law Center, to discus a
California law, signed
on Monday by Governor Jerry Brown, which allows a transgender
K-12 student access to school facilities such as locker rooms,
bathrooms and teams based on his or her gender identity.
“If a child is sexually confused they need professional
counseling,” Thomasson
said about the bill. “Lots of children are being molested in
America, lots of children are being abandoned by one or the other
parent, and that creates a problem with the child's expectations with
their mind. So a child that is sexually confused, they need
professional counseling. My opponent on this is saying, 'Look this
is a rights issue.' What about the rights of a child to be sexually
comfortable in the bathroom? What about the rights of millions and
millions of Californian children and their parents? You know, this
is trampling the rights of everybody else.”
At the end of the segment, Thomasson told Davis and host Brooke
Baldwin: “Hey, good to talk to you ladies.”
(Related: FRC's
Peter Sprigg: Transgender student bill ignores biology, panders to
emotions.)