Watch Jim Jordan get trolled 'for caring about what happens in locker rooms'
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell trolled House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan Thursday while discussing a “creepy” piece of anti-trans legislation titled the “Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act.”
Swalwell began by taking a jab at the Republican Jordan’s alleged silence and complicity around the molestation of student athletes at Ohio State University when he was an assistant wrestling coach there.
“I guess it's a good thing that some folks on the other side are now interested in what happens in a locker room, and we're not going to look the other way,” Swalwell snarked. “But this is something that is not a thing.”
The transphobic bill aims to define gender by using specific biological and physiological markers, so Swalwell proceeded to press the bill’s proponents to explain how they would be "enforcing this on-demand gender check."
When GOP Rep. Harriet Hageman, one of the bill’s sponsors, made the vague claim that individual organizations would handle the “inspection,” the California congressman denounced the mealy-mouthed transphobia that right-wing politicians wield as a weapon while doing nothing to promote healthier communities.