Religious Right activists really don’t seem to know what it means to be transgender, and we can count the California-based advocate leading the charge to repeal California’s new law protecting LGBT students among them. Karen England of the Capitol Resource Institute appeared yesterday on VCY America’s flagship radio program Crosstalk where she argued that the law will have a devastating impact on children and that parents should pull their kids out of public schools.
Her group, which launched a campaign to overturn the law, calls the non-discrimination provision an attempt by LGBT rights organizations “to use school children as a weapon in waging their culture war.”
“This word, gender identity or gender expression, it means expressing your gender whatever you feel that day,” England told VCY America host Jim Schneider. “If I feel like Christie Brinkley, the law is supposed to treat me like I’m Christie Brinkley even though I’m not. That’s what they are doing.”
