Huckabee On Transgender People: I Wish I Could've Said I Was Transgender In HS To Shower With The Girls - BuzzFeed News

While reading this a few disconcerting thoughts came to mind:

He openly fantasizes in public about showering with "underage girls" and then at a later time defends Josh Duggar.  Granted the "girls" would have been in the same age bracket as him;  but not something you would consider as an adult even upon reflection.

It's not about "feeling like a woman" during shower time. It's about feeling like a woman all the time. But as Huckabee understands it, the primary reason that a transgender person would submit to the trials and tribulations  of a lifelong transitioning process is to be able to catch glimpses of chicks in restrooms and locker rooms. 

My very sage friend, Callie Wright of The Gaytheist Manifesto put it this way in response to similar thinking: 

It's my favorite thing in the world when people who very obviously have zero understanding of a community but have gobs of opinion about it. You wouldn't feel like a woman if you had surgery because you're not one. Imagine how fucked up and wrong you would feel if you woke up with a vagina and tits tomorrow. Think honestly for a second about how fucked up that would feel. And you might have something approaching an understanding of what it's like to be trans.

I cannot tell you how disgusted and angry this makes me. This bloviating idiot is making jokes about gender issues that for some are the cause of much pain and ridicule, that they chose death over life.  It is not a "decision" anyone should be forced to make.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee joked earlier in the year he wished he could have pretended to be transgender in high school “when it came time to take showers in PE.”

Huckabee made the comments at the 2015 National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, earlier this year but the comments were uploaded to YouTube over the weekend by World Net Daily.

“For those who do not think that we are under threat, simply recognize that the fact that we are now in city after city watching ordinances say that your 7-year-old daughter, if she goes into the restroom cannot be offended and you can’t be offended if she’s greeted there by a 42-year-old man who feels more like a woman than he does a man.”

Huckabee continued saying saying he wished someone told him in high school he “could have felt like a woman” and shower with the girls.

Huckabee On Transgender People: I Wish I Could've Said I Was Transgender In HS To Shower With The Girls - BuzzFeed News