GOP Lawmaker Likens Trans People to ‘Mutants’

“After one Republican said Monday it’s ‘like we have mutants living among us on planet Earth,’ the Florida House moved closer to taking up a bill that seeks to prevent transgender men and women from using bathrooms that don’t line up with their sex assigned at birth,” the Orlando Sentinel reports.

Said state Rep. Webster Barnaby (R): “We have people that live among us today on planet Earth that are happy to display themselves as if they were mutants from another planet. This is the planet Earth where God created men male and women female. I’m a proud Christian conservative Republican. I’m not on the fence, not on the fence.”