{"id":1454814,"date":"2022-04-26T23:14:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T03:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1454814"},"modified":"2022-04-26T23:14:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T03:14:47","slug":"huge-kansas-republican-does-not-appreciate-sharing-a-bathroom-with-transgender-colleague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/huge-kansas-republican-does-not-appreciate-sharing-a-bathroom-with-transgender-colleague\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Huge\u2019: Kansas Republican Does Not \u2018Appreciate\u2019 Sharing A Bathroom With Transgender Colleague"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhuge-kansas-republican-does-not-appreciate-sharing-a-bathroom-with-transgender-colleague%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1454814&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Republican Kansas state Rep. Cheryl Helmer said she does not \u201cappreciate\u201d having to share a bathroom with her \u201chuge\u201d transgender colleague, a biological male.<\/p>\n<p>Helmer made the remarks about Democratic state Rep. Stephanie Byers, the state\u2019s first transgender lawmaker, in an April 23 email to 25-year-old University of Kansas graduate student Brenan Riffel, saying, \u201cnow, personally I do not appreciate the huge transgender female who is now in our restrooms in the Capitol,\u201d the Washington Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/apr\/26\/cheryl-helmer-kansas-lawmaker-objects-to-sharing-r\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Kansas Republican Party platform stated, \u201cwe believe God created two genders, male and female,\u201d according to the Times.<\/p>\n<p>Riffel, who identifies as \u201ctrans-feminine,\u201d exposed the email to the Kansas Reflector, a nonprofit news organization, the outlet reported. The graduate student told the Times that Helmer\u2019s comments reflected the same rhetoric that has spewed for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rhetoric against the LGBTQ community has been the same for years, that we\u2019re a threat to society; we\u2019re going to hurt people,\u201d Riffel said. \u201cI just want to go about and just be myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Holscher references Rep. Cheryl Helmer\u2019s emails, revealed yesterday, saying she doesn\u2019t appreciate sharing a bathroom w\/ KS\u2019 1st openly transgender representative. Holscher says it\u2019s bills like this\/comments like this that keep biz from investing in Kansas. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/kakenews?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#kakenews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ksleg?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ksleg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ksed?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ksed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pilar Pedraza TV (@PilarPedrazaTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PilarPedrazaTV\/status\/1518978860653625345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Byers called Helmer\u2019s statement \u201cshocking,\u201d but said conversations have quietly been had between lawmakers since entering office, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know this has been going on in offices, and back rooms and conversations since the day I was elected,\u201d Byers said. \u201cThe shocking part is that it came out, that someone actually said it.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/23\/twitter-jim-banks-rachel-levine-transgender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Hateful Conduct\u2019: Twitter Locks Rep. Jim Banks Account For Calling Rachel Levine A Man)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Helmer doubled down on her comments Tuesday while co-sponsoring a bill to ban <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/12\/corinna-cohn-transgender-surgery-regret-washington-post\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gender reassignment<\/a> surgeries and hormone treatments for minors, the outlet reported. She said in a Monday interview that she was in the Statehouse with Byers, a mother and her young daughter, who she said was afraid of Byers.<\/p>\n<p>She also said children undergoing reassignment surgeries will be in \u201cregret\u201d it for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t lop a penis off and then expect, you know, a little boy to now live his life,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019ll be in regret for the rest of his life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kansas House Speaker Ron Ryckman Jr., a Republican, called the comments \u201cunfortunate,\u201d while executive director of Equality Kansas, Tom Witt, called on Helmer to be censured for her \u201ctoxic bigotry,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Kansas Senate voted 28-10 to override Democratic Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly\u2019s veto of a ban on <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/30\/oklahoma-governor-signs-save-womens-sports-act-banning-transgender-athletes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">biological men<\/a> competing in women\u2019s sports in K-12 and college athletics, the outlet reported. A vote is expected to occur in the House in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Several lawmakers have moved away from their transgender colleague in the elevator, Byers said, according to the Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Kansas state Rep. Cheryl Helmer said she does not \u201cappreciate\u201d having to share a bathroom with her \u201chuge\u201d transgender colleague, a biological male.Helmer made the remarks about Democratic state<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":1480615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}