‘Can’t Believe I’m Asking the Question’: CNN’s Smerconish Asks Transgender Journalist About Using the Ladies’ Room

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SMERCONISH: “Zoey, at what point in your own experience did you begin using the ladies room and what was that like?”

Tur: “The first time was after sexual reassignment surgery. So after I‘d gone through extensive surgery and it was about a couple, 3 or 2 years or so before while I was on hormones, and that was the first time I, I felt compelled to use a women‘s room and I‘ve never had a problem. Uh, all around the world. And um, you know, no one has. You know, no one has said anything and, you know, maybe because you know, I‘m seen as female, but I can understand the trepidation and fear among some people. People are very fearful right now. And um, you know, they see they‘ve been told that transgender athletes are going to be taking over sports and they‘re going to be invading our women‘s, you know only spaces. This is all fear mongering. It sells. It‘s great for fundraising. And the Republican Party knew this, and they used it to their advantage very cynical, but it works. And then you‘re left with Kamala Harris and others trying to fight against, you know, a perceived threat. It‘s hard to fight a lie. It‘s hard to fight a mean threat. It is, you know, it‘s you‘re already on on your back feet back foot trying to get control of the narrative. By that time people, if you keep telling people the same lies over and over within—“