GOP Gov. Candidate Says Trans Women Should Be Arrested For Using Bathroom

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson suggested transgender women "find a corner" to use as a bathroom instead.

A leading gubernatorial candidate in North Carolina said earlier this month that transgender women who need to use a public bathroom of their choosing should “find a corner outside somewhere” or else be arrested.

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) has a history of transphobic, racist and antisemitic comments, leading the Charlotte Observer’s editorial board to once call him an “embarrassment.”

Robinson hammered his point on transgender rights during at least two campaign stops earlier this month.

“We’re going to defend women in this state,” he said at one, as The Washington Post was first to report.

“That means if you’re a man on Friday night, and all of a sudden Saturday you feel like a woman and you want to go in the women’s bathroom in the hall, you will be arrested, or whatever we got to do to you. We’re going to protect our women,” he said.