According to a CNN anchor, if you’re concerned about what your 12 year old daughter might see in a bathroom where men are allowed — you are overprotective and intolerant.
CNN Anchor Chris Cuomo took to Twitter last week to express his unhappiness with President Trump rescinding the Obama administration’s directive on transgender students using the restroom of their choice instead of the sex they were assigned at birth.
Other users began responding to Cuomo’s comments. One asked him, what do you tell a 12 year old girl who doesn’t want to see a male body part in a locker room?” Cuomo quoted the tweet and responded, “I wonder if she is the problem or her overprotective and intolerant dad? Teach tolerance.”
With this response, Cuomo implied that any girl who would be uncomfortable with the presence of male anatomy in the girls’ locker room was raised by a father who had sheltered her and taught her to dislike people who were different than her.
Writing at the National Review, David French called Cuomo’s comments, “One of the strangest tweet exchanges I’ve ever seen.” He then used Cuomo’s comments to show the dramatic change that has taken place in American society in recent years.
He wrote, “Not long ago, if school policies purposefully exposed girls”….in that way….. “they’d be subject to a backbreaking sexual harassment lawsuit. Suddenly, however, “tolerance” looks a lot like indecent exposure, and indecent exposure is what freedom looks like. This is beyond strange.”