{"id":36794,"date":"2016-05-01T12:10:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T16:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/ted-cruz-continues-false-smear-campaign-against-transgender-americans\/"},"modified":"2016-05-01T12:10:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T16:10:48","slug":"ted-cruz-continues-false-smear-campaign-against-transgender-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/ted-cruz-continues-false-smear-campaign-against-transgender-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz Continues False Smear Campaign Against Transgender Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Ted Cruz Continues False Smear Campaign Against Transgender Americans<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hrc-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/made\/images\/remote\/http_hrc-assets.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/files\/images\/blog\/TedCruz-GOP2016-1600x900_640_360.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Today, HRC released the following statement after Senator Ted Cruz&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/video\/sen-cruz-responds-to-bathroom-bills-real-danger-is-people-who-are-predators-677022275920\" target=\"_blank\">continued his transphobic attacks<\/a>&nbsp;on NBC&rsquo;s Meet the Press and CNN&rsquo;s State of the Union this morning.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;After 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,&rdquo; said&nbsp;HRC Communications Director Jay Brown.&nbsp;&ldquo;Ted Cruz&rsquo;s fear-mongering campaign about attacks in restrooms has never been documented in the decades that more than 100 local non-discrimination protections have existed. The reason we need these local laws in the first place is because Congress has yet to pass a federal law protecting LGBT people, who are at risk of being fired, evicted or denied services in a majority of states because of who they are. Ted Cruz showed us firsthand today how important it is that we elect Hillary Clinton to fight for full federal equality in November.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Fact checkers&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2016\/04\/19\/reality-check-would-a-bathroom-ban-really-protect-women-children\/\" target=\"_blank\">have found<\/a>&nbsp;&ldquo;there&rsquo;s no evidence of dangerous predators pretending to be transgender in American bathrooms&hellip;&rdquo; while Politifact rated Ted Cruz&rsquo;s ad attacking Donald Trump on this issue as &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2016\/apr\/25\/ted-cruz\/cruz-attack-ad-trump-distorts-transgender-bathroom\/\" target=\"_blank\">mostly false<\/a>,&rdquo; saying &ldquo;the overall message is highly distorted to scare voters.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Cruz&rsquo;s comments this morning are part of an ongoing pattern of anti-transgender rhetoric on the campaign trail. He recently&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonblade.com\/2016\/04\/25\/cruz-indicates-trans-women-should-only-use-bathroom-at-home\/\" target=\"_blank\">suggested<\/a>&nbsp;transgender people should &ldquo;only use restrooms at home and avoid public facilities.&rdquo; In addition to his recent ad smearing transgender people, his campaign&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonblade.com\/2016\/04\/21\/trans-teen-ejected-from-cruz-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\">threw a transgender teenager out&nbsp;<\/a>of a campaign event. At prior campaign events, he launched a bigoted rant against the Obama Administration&#8217;s decision to support a transgender student, falsely&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wqFPKVoQueI&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">accusing officials&nbsp;<\/a>of forcing the school to &#8220;let a little <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">boy<\/a> take showers with junior high <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girls<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2015\/10\/12\/ted-cruz-the-military-shouldnt-be-a-cauldron-for-social-experiments\/\" target=\"_blank\">on the campaign trail<\/a>, Cruz has decried efforts to lift the ban prohibiting transgender Americans from serving openly in the military, even though the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/press-releases\/entry\/ama-to-dod-there-is-no-medical-rationale-in-transgender-military-ban\" target=\"_blank\">American Medical Association<\/a>&nbsp;approved a resolution last year that said there is &#8220;no medically valid reason to exclude transgender individuals from service in the U.S. military.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more on Cruz&rsquo;s anti-LGBT record,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/2016RepublicanFacts\/ted-cruz\" target=\"_blank\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/ted-cruz-continues-false-smear-campaign-against-transgender-americans?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/ted-cruz-continues-false-smear-campaign-against-transgender-americans?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Cruz Continues False Smear Campaign Against Transgender Americans Today, HRC released the following statement after Senator Ted Cruz&nbsp;continued his transphobic attacks&nbsp;on NBC&rsquo;s Meet the Press and CNN&rsquo;s State of the Union this morning. &ldquo;After invoking the importance of the Bill of Rights, Ted Cruz had the gall to spread vicious lies about transgender people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/ted-cruz-continues-false-smear-campaign-against-transgender-americans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ted Cruz Continues False Smear Campaign Against Transgender Americans<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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