Shelley Luther (image via campaign website)
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.”
First of all – those kids aren’t “transgenders.” Transgender is an adjective. You can be a transgender male, a transgender female. It’s not a verb – you don’t “transgender” into something else. There is no “transgendering” going on. Even my spell check wants me to fix that as I type. It’s 2022, and this isn’t hard. Related: Trans Candidate Makes History Winning Democratic Nomination For Virginia House Race Second, if this woman thinks SHE’S uncomfortable, try being a trans kid. They are working so hard on just figuring out who they are, and accepting who they are TO THEMSELVES. I couldn’t care less how “uncomfortable” this white cisgender straight woman is with trans kids. I’m with the kids every time. Period. Luther clearly should NOT be elected to any position of power.
3/ Luther’s comments drew rebuke from Equality Texas, which advocates for the rights of gay and transgender Texans. The group’s CEO said all Texas school children should “feel a sense of belonging in school so they can focus on academic success.” https://t.co/c8AX8IFXNG pic.twitter.com/CWttXNowOs
— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) February 9, 2022
Ricardo Martinez, CEO of LGBTQ advocacy group Equality Texas, said in a statement:
“Lamenting not being able to allow students to laugh at, bully and harass transgender kids isn’t leadership, it’s cruelty plain and simple. All children in Texas are guaranteed a public education under the constitution, deserve privacy and the ability to learn in a safe environment.”
Luther was in the headlines last month when she called on the state’s universities to deny admittance to Chinese students. “Chinese students should be BANNED from attending all Texas universities,” Luther said in the since-deleted tweet. “No more Communists!” You may also recall in May 2020 Luther flouted state and local emergency orders closed nonessential businesses due to the pandemic by continuing to operate her Dallas salon, Salon À la Mode. A county judge held her in criminal and civil contempt and sentenced her to seven days behind bars. By the way, I’m not the only one who noticed Luther’s long pause in the middle of that video clip. She clearly knew she’d done said “something” that needed parsing and it took a while for her brain to catch up.
Yes! She heard herself saying the silent part out loud & froze, looking for an escape hatch.
— Boudicca Mic ✌️😷 (@twistedmic24) February 9, 2022
I think she expected applause. At least that wasn’t there 🤦🏻♀️
— Wendy McRoberts ❄️🌊🏳️🌈🤗 (@wendy_mcroberts) February 9, 2022
Whoa. She was upset that kids couldn’t laugh or make fun or embarrass other kids in her class??
— Jim Organ (@OrganLawOffices) February 9, 2022
Wow, so we are forcing her to have other kids respect all the kids and not laugh at them and bully them? What an imposition on her she’s so uncomfortable.
— That Vaccinated Karen (@KarenVaccinated) February 9, 2022
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