{"id":37452,"date":"2016-05-13T16:20:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T20:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/alan-grayson-rips-gop-cisgender-bigots-over-nc-anti-lgbt-bathroom-law-in-house-floor-speech-watch\/"},"modified":"2016-05-13T16:20:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T20:20:36","slug":"alan-grayson-rips-gop-cisgender-bigots-over-nc-anti-lgbt-bathroom-law-in-house-floor-speech-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/alan-grayson-rips-gop-cisgender-bigots-over-nc-anti-lgbt-bathroom-law-in-house-floor-speech-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Grayson Rips GOP \u2018Cisgender Bigots\u2019 Over NC Anti-LGBT Bathroom Law in House Floor Speech: WATCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Alan Grayson Rips GOP \u2018Cisgender Bigots\u2019 Over NC Anti-LGBT Bathroom Law in House Floor Speech: WATCH<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/05\/alan-grayson-transgender\/jorgensen\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-313101\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/jorgensen.jpg?resize=600%2C334\" alt=\"Christine Jorgensen Alan Grayson transgender\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/jorgensen.jpg?w=600 600w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/jorgensen.jpg?resize=300%2C167 300w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/jorgensen.jpg?resize=150%2C84 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?c4595326\/great-bathroom-controversy\" target=\"_blank\"> took to the House floor on Friday<\/a> and delivered a rip-roaring presentation against the &ldquo;bigots&rdquo; in North Carolina and their anti-LGBT bathroom bill HB 2.<\/p>\n<p>The speech was also historic and groundbreaking, according to the office of the U.S. House Communications Director, which informed Towleroad that it is the first time the word &ldquo;cisgender&rdquo; has ever been used&nbsp;on the House floor.<\/p>\n<p>Grayson started out his speech with a history lesson about Christine Jorgensen, the first person to become widely known in the U.S. for having gender reassignment surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Now, I&nbsp;have to tell you, i don&rsquo;t know exactly where she went when she had to go. I don&rsquo;t know exactly whether she went into a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>&rsquo;s room or <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">ladies<\/a> room, but here&rsquo;s the interesting thing. Even though this is something new under the sun, even though America never had to address this issue before, no one ever even bothered to ask. I don&rsquo;t remember anybody saying, &lsquo;Christine Jorgensen, she ought to go to the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>&rsquo;s room, she was born a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">male<\/a>.&rsquo; Or for that matter, &lsquo;Christine Jorgensen, she identifies as a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">female<\/a>, she should go to the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">ladies<\/a> room&rsquo;. Isn&rsquo;t it odd that America in the 1950&rsquo;s seems to show &mdash; seems to have shown a lot more maturity than America is showing today with our great bathroom controversy right now.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Grayson went on:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Now we have a whole new problem. Now, thanks to&nbsp;Republicans, bigots, in North Carolina, we have a law that would require Christine Jorgensen to go to the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>&rsquo;s room. Think about that. Think about that. In fact, the natural consequence of that law is what i&rsquo;m about to show you right here.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Grayson then pulled out this poster:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/05\/alan-grayson-transgender\/grayson-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-313102\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/grayson.jpg?resize=600%2C336\" alt=\"Alan Grayson\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/grayson.jpg?w=600 600w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/grayson.jpg?resize=300%2C168 300w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/grayson.jpg?resize=150%2C84 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And Grayson was just getting going:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So you folks in North Carolina who are obsessed with where the transgendered go to the bathroom, this is the result you&rsquo;ve come up with. People who self-identify as <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>, people who look like <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>, people who act like <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>, they somehow are being driven into the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>&rsquo;s room. And the same thing is true of transgendered who identify as <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>. You&rsquo;re going to force people who look like <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>, act like <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>, you&rsquo;re going to force them into a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">ladies<\/a> room. My god, what&rsquo;s wrong with you?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Grayson continued:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That doesn&rsquo;t make any sense at all. Now, let me tell you something. If I&nbsp;had been, back in the day, growing up in New York, and Christine Jorgensen happened to walk into the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>&rsquo;s room, never happened, but let&rsquo;s say it did. I would have thought, that&rsquo;s odd, but I&nbsp;wouldn&rsquo;t have said a word about it. I wouldn&rsquo;t have gone over to her and said, &lsquo;excuse me, i don&rsquo;t think you&rsquo;re supposed to be here.&rsquo; On the contrary, I&nbsp;would have made an appropriate mental note, assume she probably found herself in the wrong <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>&rsquo;s room and would have let it go.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I would not have felt any fear. I would not have felt hatred. I would not have felt anything that would indicate to me that somehow i should discriminate against this person. I would have thought it was odd. What this law does is guarantee that experience or worse. Have people who identify and look and dress and act like <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a>, forced to go into a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>&rsquo;s room. That people identify and look and act and dress like <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> forced to go into a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">ladies<\/a> room. Are you nuts?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2007\/08\/larry-craigs-po\/larrycraigmugshot1-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-201431\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/larrycraigmugshot1.jpg?resize=150%2C111\" alt=\"larrycraigmugshot1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a>Grayson then&nbsp;reminded everyone of real bathroom creepers&nbsp;like former Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig, and of the civil rights movement.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And I&rsquo;m wondering how do you even enforce a law like this? What are we going to do, have to give saliva samples every time we go to the bathroom to see what gender we were born with? Bear in mind, there&rsquo;s a law against loitering. Law against wide stances in a bathroom. A Republican senator learned that a few years ago. There&rsquo;s a law against disorderly conduct. There&rsquo;s a law against voyeurism. There&rsquo;s a law against indecent exposure. In fact, in a really bad situation, there are laws against assault and even rape. So why do we need a law to dictate that people who identify as <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> have to go to the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">ladies<\/a> room and people with identify as <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">ladies<\/a> have to go to the mens room. We had laws like that once. We used to say that we didn&rsquo;t want white people to have to be uncomfortable going to the bathroom with black people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He also pointed out the real gender issues in the nation with this poster:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/05\/alan-grayson-transgender\/2_grayson\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-313103\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2_grayson.jpg?resize=600%2C332\" alt=\"Slan Grayson\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2_grayson.jpg?w=600 600w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2_grayson.jpg?resize=300%2C166 300w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2_grayson.jpg?resize=150%2C84 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Said Grayson:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Now, if we did actually want to deal with real problems, we could deal with this one. A little <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">boy<\/a> and a little <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girl<\/a> both looking into their diapers. And the caption is, &lsquo;oh, that explains the difference in our wages.&rsquo; Now, if we want to talk about gender in America in the early 21st century, we could start with that. Why is it that <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> still make only 79 cents for every dollar that a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a> makes in countless occupations and professions even today? Why is that? You want to get to the heart of what&rsquo;s really going on between the sexes in America today, why don&rsquo;t we do something to address that problem?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Grayson concluded:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But getting back to this North Carolina law, there is a deep legal principle that this law offends. It offends me, it offends a lot of people with a good conscience. And that deep legal principle is this. It goes by four letters. MYOB. That&rsquo;s an even higher law than the law that was passed by the North&nbsp;Carolina legislature. M.y.o.b. Mind your own business.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Watch:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/05\/alan-grayson-transgender\/\">Alan Grayson Rips GOP &lsquo;Cisgender Bigots&rsquo; Over NC Anti-LGBT Bathroom Law in House Floor Speech: WATCH<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/\">Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=oC3jaZJlDds:P7c-CBMj5O0:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=oC3jaZJlDds:P7c-CBMj5O0:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=oC3jaZJlDds:P7c-CBMj5O0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=oC3jaZJlDds:P7c-CBMj5O0:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?i=oC3jaZJlDds:P7c-CBMj5O0:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=oC3jaZJlDds:P7c-CBMj5O0:cGdyc7Q-1BI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=cGdyc7Q-1BI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=oC3jaZJlDds:P7c-CBMj5O0:YwkR-u9nhCs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=YwkR-u9nhCs\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~4\/oC3jaZJlDds\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~3\/oC3jaZJlDds\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">feeds.towleroad.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~3\/oC3jaZJlDds\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Grayson Rips GOP \u2018Cisgender Bigots\u2019 Over NC Anti-LGBT Bathroom Law in House Floor Speech: WATCH Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) took to the House floor on Friday and delivered a rip-roaring presentation against the &ldquo;bigots&rdquo; in North Carolina and their anti-LGBT bathroom bill HB 2. The speech was also historic and groundbreaking, according to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/alan-grayson-rips-gop-cisgender-bigots-over-nc-anti-lgbt-bathroom-law-in-house-floor-speech-watch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alan Grayson Rips GOP \u2018Cisgender Bigots\u2019 Over NC Anti-LGBT Bathroom Law in House Floor Speech: WATCH<\/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-37452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alan Grayson Rips GOP \u2018Cisgender Bigots\u2019 Over NC Anti-LGBT Bathroom Law in House Floor Speech: WATCH - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/alan-grayson-rips-gop-cisgender-bigots-over-nc-anti-lgbt-bathroom-law-in-house-floor-speech-watch\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alan Grayson Rips GOP \u2018Cisgender Bigots\u2019 Over NC Anti-LGBT Bathroom Law in House Floor Speech: WATCH - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Alan Grayson Rips GOP \u2018Cisgender Bigots\u2019 Over NC Anti-LGBT Bathroom Law in House Floor Speech: WATCH Rep. 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