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  • 2016-06-02 (xsd:date)
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  • James Dobson Urges Parents to 'Protect' Children from 'Tyrant Obama' and 'Transgender Bathrooms' (en)
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  • In June 2016, a meme featuring an image of evangelist James Dobson along with text that read: James Dobson says Christians should shoot transgender people using public bathrooms appeared on social media: The meme (confusing sentence structure notwithstanding) is based a quote from a WND.com article published on 31 May 2016, in which Dobson urged parents to protect their children from tyrant Obama and transgender individuals who choose to use the restroom that best corresponds with their gender identity, rather than their biological sex. While Dobson's article perpetuated several unsubstantiated rumors about new transgender bathroom laws, the most controversial portion of the article was when Dobson questioned today's manhood, saying that if transgender bathroom laws had gone into effect a century ago, someone would have been shot: Dobson did call on fathers to protect their daughters from transgender individuals; however, he stopped short of saying that fathers should shoot transgender people who use the wrong restroom. Transgender bathroom laws became a hot topic in the United States in 2016, after North Carolina's controversial bathroom bill made the issue a central part of election year discussion and punditry. Target added to the conversation by publicly confirming its policy that transgender individuals could use the restroom that best corresponded with their gender identity. Since then, a host of rumors, lies and misinformation have circulated, propagating the notion that transgendered individuals are perverted or dangerous. (en)
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