{"id":93846,"date":"2016-04-19T13:38:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T21:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=93846"},"modified":"2016-04-19T13:38:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T21:38:53","slug":"nbc-curt-schilling-makes-a-disgusting-anti-transgender-post-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=93846","title":{"rendered":"NBC: Curt Schilling makes a disgusting anti-transgender post on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From NBC<\/a>: This has got to be the final straw, right? Curt Schilling, ESPN\u2019s baseball analyst who has been in trouble multiple times for his social media posts and comments, has once again stepped in it. Indeed, this may be his worst one yet.<\/p>\n

It was a meme he shared on Facebook and under which he commented dealing with the issue of access to public facilities for transgender people and it contains a disgusting caricature of what, apparently, Schilling believes to be a transgender person. I won\u2019t reproduce the meme he shared here, but you can see it if you\u2019d like at OutSports, which brought this to the public\u2019s attention. They also pass along his comments, which I presume he\u2019ll soon delete. Schilling:<\/p>\n

\u201cA man is a man no matter what they call themselves. I don\u2019t care what they are, who they sleep with, men\u2019s room was designed for the penis , women\u2019s not so much. Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic\u201d<\/p>\n

While many may feel that way, such sentiments are wholly ignorant of transgender people and their nature (note: they are people who just have to go to the bathroom sometimes like everyone else) and perpetuates stereotypes of a much-maligned class of people. There is an entire b.s. perpetuation machine backing these sorts of sentiments, by the way, smearing transgender people as deviants or threats when, in fact, there are no documented cases of people exploiting transgender non-discrimination laws to commit crimes. Of course, given Schilling\u2019s track record, it is not necessarily surprising that he\u2019s willing to buy into false claims and hyperbole which support his general disposition.<\/p>\n

But even if you step away from the substance, it\u2019s undeniable that public access for transgender people is a highly controversial issue at the moment, with North Carolina passing a restrictive law in this regard which has led to boycotts of the state by performing artists and travel restrictions for public officials who would visit North Carolina in their official capacity. Likewise, the NBA is currently considering taking next year\u2019s All-Star Game out of Charlotte. No matter which side of this matter a person may fall, it\u2019s highly doubtful that ESPN wants one of its top commenters wading into it at the moment, at least in as crass a manner as Schilling did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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