A Texas Republican candidate and former teacher said transgender children make her uncomfortable and questioned why other kids should be punished for making fun of them.
When asked Saturday how she would enact conservative priorities in a divided state Legislature, Shelley Luther – a candidate for the Texas House of Representatives – smeared trans children and tied her discomfort around them with her support for “school choice.”
“I am not comfortable with the transgenders,” Luther said, speaking at a candidate forum in northeast Texas. “The kids that they brought in my classroom, when they said that this kid is transgendering into a different sex, that I couldn’t have kids laugh at them … like other kids got in trouble for having transgender kids in my class. That’s why I vote for school choice.”
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