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‘Pawn Stars’ star loses endorsements after supporting Marco Rubio & slams trans women

‘Pawn Stars’ star loses endorsements after supporting Marco Rubio & slams trans women

Rick Harrison, star of the hit show Pawn Stars on the History Channel, has already lost product endorsements after he publicly announced his support for republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio. He’s also worried that his conservative views will cost him his show. Harrison told CNN he believes his endorsement last month will enrage the “massive liberal PC police,” then cited transgender bathroom accommodations as an example of what he fears.

“It does worry me to a degree. You get these massive liberal PC police, they don’t see the law of unintended consequences. You have some cities that are saying that if you have a man who feels like he’s a woman, he can use the women’s restroom. I guarantee you that will be taken advantage of by some very bad men who want to go into a bathroom where there’s young ladies. That will happen if you pass a law like that. It’s not a perfect world. You’ll never make it a perfect world.”

Rick falls into the unfortunately large line of people who claim that allowing transgender people to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity and presentation will lead to an epidemic of straight men crossdressing to rape women and prey on children. But, not a single crime like this has been reported since LGBT nondiscrimination protections have been law. He’s not much different than the people in Houston fighting back against Proposition 1, which would would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity — criteria not covered by federal anti-discrimination laws.

These people are using boogieman, scare tactics to get voters to continue discriminating.

You can watch Rick’s interview with CNN about his political views here. And, although the video doesn’t have his transphopic comment it was included in a transcription of the interview.

“When you endorse a Republican, everyone sort of frowns on you. I don’t know why, but hey,” said Harrison.

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