Ugh. Of course it's a sweet little blonde white girl too.

I know, DDog. This entire video and webiste made me want to throw up and punch someone all at the same time...

Umm, do any of these people realize that little girls are more likely to be sexually abused by someone in their own family - like a dad, uncle, male cousin, etc.? It's pretty shameful that 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 6 boys are sexually abused as children. By straight men, no less. So what this group really needs to do if it actually cares about the children is to ban straight males from public restrooms, and private homes. Fuck off!

But fear and lack of understanding is all they have to work with. I am sad to admit the amount of prejudice I have just had to wait to die off. Once they have an opinion/stereotype/prejudice haters are usually loath to reconsider or change it.

Hi, I am one of the G'ville transdykes who testified to the Commission in January and yes, many (most) of those in opposition were angry, thuggish, fundies from one particular church, The Rock and that church isn't even in Gainesville. In fact this whole opposition movement is being orchestrated by folk frome somewhere else. Literally and figuratively. But even if they get on the ballot we are gearing up to defeat them at the ballot box.
J-Marie

I know, that commercial's pretty racist. And maybe if the kids weren't screaming so much it would have more of an effect....

Wait, was that dude meant to be trans? Was he like a transman/pedophile? Or was he a cisman/pedophile who researched non-discrimination acts extensively to find the exact city in which to attack, and then didn't even bother to shave or put on a clean shirt when he went out there?

These people are dumb, but they've got the emotional blackmail thing down. Like Serena points out, they ignore the girls who are sexually molested in their families, and those people who seek to molest in the family use cultural protections of family's privacy to do what they do. And these groups all the while protect the family as a cohesive, safe unit, even when it shouldn't be or isn't.

Talk about distraction politics. Why are they supporting the pedophiles?

@Alex Blaze
"Talk about distraction politics. Why are they supporting the pedophiles?"

I agree with the rest of your comment about the ridiculous nature of this commercial. However, I think it's important to note a distinction between pedophilia and child molestation, especially in the context of abuse in the family. It is not necessary to have an attraction to pre-pubescent children (pedophilia) or pubescent and post-pubescent adolescents (ephebophila) in order to molest them, and many individuals who have either of these diagnoses do not molest children. "Supporting the pedophiles" actually involves therapy, observation, and treatment. Supporting child molesters, on the other hand, can be done by, as you said, "protect[ing] the family as a cohesive, safe unit, even when it shouldn't be or isn't," among other similar practices. Civil rights for trans people are not among these practices.

"Men in dresses molesting our children" is a red herring and ignores the true sources of child molestation in the US and around the world. It is very saddening to me that individuals and groups who claim to care about children are being taken in by this kind of rhetoric, and spending money to deny civil rights to trans people when there are much better ways to protect children.

I don't understand what's so hard about mounting counter advertising depicting what the public all knows as truth that your more likely to be molested by a man claiming god.Posters of two republican men doing the republican mating foot shuffle in the mens room.Or how about a picture of a Catholic priest and a kid to scare them.Amy

Great idea, Amy. Fight fire with fire. Show Larry Craig entering the bathroom after another guy enters.

"The Religious Right thinks this is how bathrooms should operate. Do you?"

LOL

I love it how they don't even mention anything trans or even show a trans person going into the bathroom. Instead, it's obviously male what with the stubble.

How about a commercial that shows a woman, a girl and a trans woman all entering the potty at the same time? You still stay outside the door, but soon here three toilets flush and then they exit. "This is how bathrooms are supposed to function. Hysteria over a bathroom should have stopped when we switched to Charmin over Sears and Roebuck."

This ad is so frightening, and it seems like this particular scare tactic might be catching on across the country. I wonder if there's just a rhetorical debt to the recent Focus on the Family campaign, or if Focus is actually actively involved in financing this campaign too? Does anyone know?

Focus on the Family did help fund the Maryland case I blogged about (the "shower scare" group), but I've looked at current funding for the Gainesville group and they have only raised a few hundred dollars according to their latest contribution filings. As more of their financials come out, I’ll let you know.

I will say that the rhetoric from the commercial and on their website is directly from FOTF and other fundie groups.

Good point, DDog.