(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A champion swimmer and a woman whose body was pulled from Lake Michigan a few days ago have two things in common: they are transgender people, and they were discussed on the floor of the Illinois House this week.
State Rep. Tom Morrison, R-Palatine, said the acceptance of transgenderism, including allowing Lia Thomas to win an NCAA women’s swimming championship, is straight out of 1984. He said Thomas is a man.
“I imagine there will be some who will try and condemn me and my words,” Morrison said. “But I’d like to close with these words by columnist Selwyn Duke: ‘The further a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those who speak it.’”
Morrison’s floor speech brought an immediate response from State Rep. Kelly Cassidy, D-Chicago.
Cassidy is a lesbian who counted the late Elise Malary as one of her constituents. The body of Malary, a Black transgender woman, was pulled from Lake Michigan this week after the activist disappeared.
Cassidy said Morrison is part of the problem. “We will embrace our youth, and we will work together to solve the epidemic of murders and suicides among trans women in our community.”
The discussion in Springfield come as conservative-leaning state legislatures have sent governors transgender girls sports bans.
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