Huckabee: I wish I could have felt like a woman so I could shower with the girls in high school

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White House hopeful Mike Huckabee mocked transgendered people this week in his latest controversial remarks since announcing his presidential campaign. The conservative former Arkansas governor said he wished someone told him “he could have felt like a woman” in high school, so that Huckabee could shower with the girls.

Huckabee made the remarks to an amused audience at the 2015 National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. Buzzfeed reported that the video was uploaded to YouTube over the weekend by World Net Daily.

In the video he says:

“Now I wish that someone told me that when I was in high school that I could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers in PE.” ‘Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today.’ You’re laughing because it sounds so ridiculous doesn’t it?”

Huckabee referred to children as being forced into a social experiment, and stated that he was being “ridiculed and scorned because we point out the obvious.”

The comments from the 59-year-old presidential candidate come one week after Huckabee defended accused child molester Josh Duggar. The eldest son on the hit TLC show “19 Kids and Counting” confessed to wrongdoing, after a police report showed that Duggar, now 27, spent a significant portion of his teenage years molesting minors, including his sisters.

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Huckabee referred to the media as sensationalizing the story, and called Duggar’s alleged actions inexcusable but not unforgivable.