Okay, first up, content warning: This post features Mike Huckabee. If you don’t know who that is, congratulations on making wiser life choices than me, but basically he’s the ‘cool’ and ‘trendy’ kind of American Republican leader, because he plays a guitar. He’s also a total fucking asshole.
Anyway, he made this joke, before the Caitlyn Jenner Vanity Fair cover that he is now assiduously avoiding commenting on:
This joke has been circulated around on MSNBC, the ‘liberal’ media that Huckabee no doubt believes are the kind of people who don’t think about things, at all (Mike Huckabee is a young earth creationist and global climate science denialist). This joke was being referred to as ‘his transgender joke.’
Now, let me please clarify for you, ‘liberal’ media folks. This is not a joke about being trans.
This is a joke about being a sexual predator.
Just a public service announcement. Mike Huckabee is standing up on a stage in front of people, and saying that he, if the option was available to him, would deceive people so he could violate the spaces set aside for women to feel safe, in a context where they’d be naked.
Hahahahaha.
Note that this argument kinda underscores how important it is to protect trans people using bathrooms. Because there are gross space-violating creeper assholes like Mike Huckabee in the world, and they get laughs and applause for talking about what they’d do.