Televangelist Pat Robertson on
Wednesday admitted to not knowing much about transgender people, then
went on to criticize a California law which protects transgender
students as “absurd.”
The first-in-the-nation law, which
gives transgender K-12 students certain rights, has become the target
of a voter initiative which seeks its repeal.
(Related: Gay
marriage foe NOM endorses effort to repeal transgender student bill.)
“I may be an old fuddy-duddy, what is
transgender?” Robertson asked 700 Club co-host Wendy
Griffith.
Robertson
went on to criticize the law: “[T]his whole business about
transgenders, you're saying they've got boy parts but they want to to
to the girls' restroom, that's absurd.”
“Why are we exposed to this stuff?
They are driving the agenda, driving everybody crazy, all this sexual
identity, sexual politics, 'Mommy Has Two Mommies' [sic] and all that
stuff. It's a tiny fringe but they seem to have control of the
levers of power in the media and especially in Hollywood. But it's
insane. I just cannot believe that the normal people in America, the
people who want to just live their lives, can't be allowed to do it
without having this stuff imposed on them constantly. You've
explained to me, I'm not sure we know yet.”
“[N]ow, we talk about transgender,”
he later added. “I have a former stallion who is now a gelding.”
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Robertson
has previously said that he sees no sin associated with being
transgender.