The newly-elected congressman is widely known as the lead sponsor of the transphobic 'bathroom bill'
While Bishop won by a small margin, he did still win — and that poses no small threat to civil rights in the state of North Carolina. The politician has repeatedly attempted to undermine anti-discrimination laws, and is most widely known as the architect and lead sponsor of the transphobic House Bill 2 , also known as the “bathroom bill.” Moreover, in
emails unearthed in July after the North Carolina news site Real Facts NC filed a public records request , he bizarrely compared his efforts to undermine LGBTQ+ rights to the work of Oskar Schindler, the German businessman and Nazi Party member who bribed SS officers in order to keep his Jewish workers alive. Bishop has also came under fire forin the far-right social network Gab, which launched in 2017 as a platform for alt-right and white supremacist figures who have been banned on more common platforms like Twitter.
“Given the damage that Dan Bishop has done, it’s inconceivable that he was rewarded with being elected to Congress,” Kendra Johnson, executive director of Equality North Carolina, told MTV News. Johnson said she “knew it would be a close race,” but hoped that Democrat Dan McCready would prevail. As a state legislator, Bishop’s damage to both his state, and the LBGTQ+ people in it, cannot be overstated. HB2in early 2016, and was later signed by then-governor Pat McCrory, a Republican; it made it so that anyone in the state was banned from using bathrooms and other facilities that weren’t designated for the sex assigned to their birth certificate, a clear effort to keep transgender people out of shared public spaces.
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