Republican U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and the current GOP nominee for governor of the state targeted trans people in a speech on the Senate floor, spewing transphobia and misinformation. In a tangent, the Republican also seemed to support a conspiracy theory that many flight attendants are furries. 

The lawmaker accused trans people of violence and even proposed that they should be put in mental health facilities as he stood beside a poster with a pregnant man emoji with “transgederism is a mental disease” on the top.

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[–] 2 points 6 days ago

He was all worried about Furries flying planes and being flight attendants.

On the show Pluribus, when aliens take over almost everybody except for a few, like the Protagonist, she gets on a plane that's being flown by a young woman in a TGIF uniform, and it shakes her up a bit. It taught the aliens that they should have their pilots wearing real pilot gear.

So if I get on a plane, and there's a furry in the pilots seat, yeah, I'm going to question it, but if he's a fully qualified, experienced pilot, then I'm taking my seat. I don't care what his religion is.

But that's a problem I'm going to deal with when it comes up, when I step into a plane, and the pilot is dressed like a gorilla or something. I'm definitely not voting over this particular issue.

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