A transgender candidate in Maine's U.S. Senate race said he 'did not want to hurt anybody' but merely wanted to 'use the bathroom.'
A transgender Democrat candidate hoping to replace Maine’s Graham Platner in the U.S. Senate race said during a recent debate he “did not want to hurt anybody” but merely wanted to “use the bathroom.
” “They say that we want to hurt people. I don’t want to hurt anybody, I just wanna use the bathroom. If they want me to use the men’s room, I will but I don’t want to be assaulted,” he added:on the Maine Democrats website, he said, “As an openly trans and intersex woman, I know what it means to be told to wait, to be quieter, to let someone else speak for you.
I won’t do that in this campaign, and I won’t do it in the Senate. No Mainer — rural or urban, Democrat, Republican, or unenrolled — should have to fight this hard just to be heard by the people meant to represent them. ” When asked during the debate what qualifications he has to serve in the Senate, Webb, who is a male living as a female,“I ran for office several times, didn’t win but did run.
But I’m a songwriter and I write my own books, and I suppose my transparency. I wouldn’t lie to the people and I wouldn’t deceive the people like we’re being deceived right now. ”“I’m a transgender and intersex woman from Farmington, Maine.
I’ve built my life from the ground up more than once: as a published author, an independent musician who’s self-produced four albums, and now as someone running my own campaign — candidate and treasurer both, no big donors, no machine behind me. ”
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