Texas Lieutenant Governor, Anti-LGBT Hate Group Attack Houston Equal Rights Ordinance

Anti-LGBT Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick posted a video on Facebook Monday alleging Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance is designed to allow men in women’s restrooms.

Patrick’s video, in which he appears next to the lieutenant governor’s seal, is the latest in a series of Internet, TV and radio ads from HERO opponents promoting the widely debunked transgender bathroom myth. Early voting on Houston’s Proposition 1, which would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and 13 other characteristics, began Monday:

“The City of Houston’s Prop 1 is not about equality,” Patrick says in the video. “That’s already the law. It’s about allowing men in women’s locker rooms and bathrooms. Whether your’e a grandmother, mother, daughter, granddaughter, sister or wife, or have one, no one should have to share a public restroom or locker room with a man. I haven’t found anyone who thinks they should. Men in women’s bathrooms defies common sense and common decency. Men, stay out of women’s restrooms and locker rooms. Vote No on Houston’s Prop 1.”

Earlier Monday, the anti-LGBT hate group Texas Values Action posted an animated, cartoon-style ad (below) depicting a hypothetical Houston gym owner who fears opening female locker rooms to transgender women.

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