Former Governor and Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee joked about wishing he had been transgender as a teen so he could have spied on girls in his High School’s shower.

Huckabee made the joke while giving a speech during the closing ceremonies at the 2015 National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.

“We are now in city after city watching ordinances say that your seven-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 told the crowd. “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. I’m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, ‘Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today’.”

“You’re laughing because it sounds so ridiculous doesn’t it?” he continued. “There’s something inherently wrong about forcing little children to be a part of this social experiment.”