U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, the Republican nominee for governor of Alabama, criticized transgender people, their parents and their doctors on the Senate floor Thursday.

Tuberville claimed transgender people are mentally ill and a danger to others.

He said that airline pilots who are transgender or wear fursuits are “deranged” and suggested more LGBTQ people should be institutionalized.

“It is the best interest of our country to bring back mental institutions as a normal part of our society, instead of sweeping it under the rug,” Tuberville said, standing next to a sign that said “Transgenderism is a Mental Illness.”

“I want to be clear about this gender confusion,” he said.

“It is not normal. It is a cry for help, and our society needs to stop affirming people who are suffering from this mental illness.”

Its creepy how obsessed they are with transgender people. Why are they so obsessed? To what point and purpose would institutionalizing these people solve? Like, I’m not seeing how transgender people existing harms people.

Also, who’d pay for this? We don’t even have universal health-insurance in America. So, what? We involuntarily incarcerte transgender people and then charge them for their own extermination treatment?

Also also, how would the 5th Amendment come in?

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      There is a reason all they want to talk about is trans and I think it’s because the culture war bullshit that they stir up over it works.

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        Because they sure as fuck don’t want to talk about the price of gas and groceries anymore.

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          Yep. The past ten years has certainly demonstrated why none of us should believe any of these fuckers - or those that cover for them in the Murc’s Law Media - when they say it’s just because they have “economic anxiety”.

          Donnie has created a great deal of economic anxiety, and still, these fuckers are sticking with him.