#MAGAInYourBathroom ad blister Republicans for 'creepy' focus on trans people and public bathrooms

 

From LGBTQNation: 

The 30-second ad from the Progress Action Fund (PAF) depicts a white-haired man in a suit sitting inside a bathroom stall. A young girl trying to use the bathroom then opens the stall door and screams upon seeing him.

“I’m your Republican Congressman,” he tells her in a raspy voice. “Now that we’re in charge, I’m checking to make sure there’s no trans people in the wrong bathroom.”

The girl responds, “Bathrooms are private. Don’t you have anything better to do?”

“I won the last election, and this is my priority,” the Congressman replies. And in perhaps the most powerful moment, the ad ends with a close-up of the generic Republican’s face as he creepily says, “Now let’s make sure you’re really a girl.”

The ad will air on television in both Texas and Ohio as part of a broader $1 million ad buy.

From The Hill:

“Americans want their elected officials to lower gas prices and end the war in Iran, not follow them into the f–king restroom,” Progress Action Fund executive director Joe Jacobson said in a statement. “Republicans are creepy as hell. Democrats need to grow a spine and call Republicans out for their creepy fetish of monitoring children’s bathrooms.”

Personally, I think the ad - which is being praised for its directness - should air in more places around the country.