Huckabee: I wish I pretended to be transgender to shower with girls

Mike Huckabee quipped earlier this year that he wished someone would have told him he could have “felt like a woman” in high school so that he could have showered with members of the opposite sex.

“For those who do not think that we are under threat, simply recognize that the fact that we are now in city after city watching ordinances say that your 7-year-old daughter, if she goes into the restroom cannot be offended and you can’t be offended if she’s greeted there by a 42-year-old man who feels more like a woman than he does a man,” Huckabee, in an apparent reference to transgender rights, said in a speech to the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville earlier this year. The remarks were first reported on Tuesday by BuzzFeed News, which found them in a video that was uploaded last week to World Net Daily’s YouTube channel.


“I wish that somebody would have told me in high school that I could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers in P.E. I’m pretty sure I would have found my feminine side, and said, ‘Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today,” Huckabee said to laughter and applause.

“You’re laughing because it sounds so ridiculous, doesn’t it?” said the GOP presidential candidate.

“And yet today, we’re the ones who are ridiculed and scorned because we point out the obvious: That there’s something inherently wrong with forcing little children to be a part of this social experiment,” Huckabee added. “I’m not against anybody; I’d just like for somebody to bring their brain to work someday and not leave it on the bed stand when they show up to govern.”