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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Minnesota lawmaker attacked a new transgender city council member. Her apology was just as bad.
A Minnesota state lawmaker is under fire for a tweet and subsequent apology that both personally attack a newly minted member of the Minneapolis City Council for being transgender.
Tuesday night, Andrea Jenkins became the first trans woman of color elected to a citys governing body, winning a seat on the Minneapolis City Council. State Rep. Mary Franson responded Wednesday morning by tweeting, A guy who thinks hes a girl is still a guy with a mental health condition. The tweet has since been deleted.
.@MaryFranson is still an embarrassment to Alexandria and Minnesota.
. @RepMaryFranson pic.twitter.com/NL4EuUpzcD
Mike McFeely (@MikeMcFeelyWDAY) November 9, 2017
Thursday night, Franson issued an apology, wherein she reiterated her belief that no one can change their gender and refused to go along with fantasy and participate in it:
There are times I dont practice kindness. For that I am sorry. While I do believe that one cant change their gender based on their feelings, I didnt need to tweet out my thoughts. God created man and woman but then sin entered the world and disrupted his perfect plan. He then sent His one and only son, Jesus, to take away our sins and to restore a broken relationship with God. I should have shown grace and not come across the way I did. For that I apologize. I do not apologize for not conforming to the PC world where Im supposed to go along with fantasy and participate in it. This isnt the first time Ive offended the social justice warriors and it wont be the last.
https://thinkprogress.org/minnesota-lawmaker-anti-transgender-comments-e9acdf7af76c/
Hey Franson--------------grow up, you really are a bigot
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,830 posts)She apologizes for being "unkind" but not for being a narrow-minded bigot. I guess being a bigot is just fine as long as you're "kind" about it and wrap yourself in all kinda phony Jesusness.
Glorfindel
(9,733 posts)offensive. On the other hand, "evil, bible-thumping hypocrites" is offensive, and I'm proud to apply it to State Rep. Mary Franson.
Ms. Toad
(34,086 posts)ExciteBike66
(2,372 posts)a perjorative.
The people who use it as such are....vicious and/or ignorant.
Glorfindel
(9,733 posts)If that makes me sound like the Dowager Countess of Grantham, so be it.
ck4829
(35,087 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,086 posts)Or libtard. There is a political tone to it that is missing from doodie head.
ck4829
(35,087 posts)The one time I've seen someone rail against "libtards" and "social justice warriors" off the Internet at all was some emotionally stunted kid who needs supervision but knows how to get on the dark web.
Why is *this* political is my complaint.
They're overgrown toddlers. We need to start treating them as such.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)It's clear that Franson doesn't have the first clue what she's talking about. An intelligent person would say, "You know, I might not have all the information I need to have an opinion about this." Franson, however, doesn't suffer such a handicap. Deplorable.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)be a Racist Bigot. Just another Ignorant bigoted associate of Michele Bauchnman.
riversedge
(70,290 posts)lapfog_1
(29,219 posts)born with extra chromosomes? That is to say not XX nor XY?
Are they the products of sin? Disruptors of the "perfect plan"?
How does she know what the perfect plan is? Did God appear before her and make it all clear?
riversedge
(70,290 posts)saying it like it is. Good for her (Jenkins)
Councilwoman-elect Jenkins herself also issued a response:
Thank you, Representative Franson, for showing all Minnesotans your true bigotry and unapologetic transphobia. As a tax-paying citizen, I am extremely disappointed in seeing my public officials displaying such discrimination against and complete disregard for transgender residents of the great state of Minnesota.
Though Franson was clearly targeting Jenkins, hers was not the only big victory. Phillipe Cunningham, a trans man of color, also won a seat on the Minneapolis City Council alongside Jenkins.
Thank you, Representative Franson, for showing all Minnesotans your true bigotry and unapologetic transphobia. As a tax-paying citizen, I am extremely disappointed in seeing my public officials displaying such discrimination against and complete disregard for transgender residents of the great state of Minnesota.
Though Franson was clearly targeting Jenkins, hers was not the only big victory. Phillipe Cunningham, a trans man of color, also won a seat on the Minneapolis City Council alongside Jenkins...................................
MineralMan
(146,325 posts)Just say nothing at all, Mary Franson. You are not required to pass judgment on others. In fact, the Jesus you profess to believe in is recorded as specifically saying that you were NOT to do that. What a disgusting display of unchristian behavior you show! As they say here in Minnesota, Uff da!
ck4829
(35,087 posts)Faith is supposed to allow you to move mountains, part the sea, heal the sick, etc. yet changing your gender is 'fantasy'?
If God created us, and I believe God had a hand in that creation in some way, then God created our bodies and our perceptions as well. Maybe transphobia is not part of the plan.
bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)Mariana
(14,860 posts)that we're all supposed to go along with and participate in. You just know she's one of those who goes apoplectic if someone says Happy Holidays to her. I bet she thinks Roy Moore is being persecuted, too. What a stupid, stupid woman. Fuck her.
Solly Mack
(90,780 posts)Corvo Bianco
(1,148 posts)LGBTQ haters perplex me.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)ut my thoughts. God created man and woman but then sin entered the world and disrupted his perfect plan. He then sent His one and only son, Jesus, to take away our sins and to restore a broken relationship with God....