Florida Republican Rep. Webster Barnaby directly compared trans people to mutants in X-Men and called the trans people, including children, present in the room "demons and imps." This was during debate for HB1421 that would criminalize trans people using bathrooms.
It's extremely difficult to prove unconstitutional animus in legislation and this Rep. just managed to do it explicitly on the record in legislative debate. He may have singlehandedly helped prove discriminatory intent to get it enjoined in court.
@Esqueer_ @Marston4ca42 Not a just a bigot, but apparently totally missed the point of X-Men as well.
@Esqueer_ X-Men? There is LITERALLY a meme for that
@Esqueer_ So much evil in our world today, we know, it’s called American whitey Jesus fake christianity!
@Esqueer_ Black people can’t be transphobic, bigot.
@Esqueer_ Next thing he’ll say is: “are trans people dangerous?” 😡
@Esqueer_ It’s not criminalizing trans using restrooms. This makes it sound like they can’t use any public restrooms lmao. This is a misleading tweet. But in a side note, this guy is weird.