The good people of Houston will vote for a lesbian mayor, but they absolutely rejected letting guys wearing dresses use women’s bathrooms by defeating a bill extending anti-discrimination protections to transgenders in a landslide last night.
This got the transgender crowd so angry they demanded that the NFL boycott the city for the Superbowl planned there in 2017:
@NCAA And @NFL shld rethink coming to Houston, the city tht likes to descriminate.Make them pay for they're #bigotry in the pockets.#boycott
— M.P. DeVille (@Cajunwealth) November 4, 2015
.@NFL, you rightfully threatened to boycott Arizona for lack of MLK Holiday. If you hold the #SuperBowl in Houston in '17, you support hate.
— Timmian Massie (@tcmassie) November 4, 2015
Boycott Houston Super Bowl. Love the sport but will not watch. @NFL
— David Conway (@Legal_Smeagol) November 4, 2015
Uhhhh they really though they would be successful with this? They don’t know the NFL very well do they:
…according to Houston’s KPRC 2, the league isn’t making any plans to move the event out of the Bayou City.
The NFL released this official statement, per the media outlet:
This will not affect our plans for Super Bowl LI in 2017. We will work closely with the Houston Super Bowl Host Committee to make sure all fans feel welcomed at our events. Our policies emphasize tolerance and inclusiveness, and prohibit discrimination based on age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other improper standard.
The NFL’s announcement came out the same day as the online petition, which had reached less than 400 signatures at the point of this story being published.
However, what’s noticeably absent from the league’s standard is any mention of protecting discrimination on the basis of gender identity.
In a stadium, one of the single most important public accommodations a facility provides is restrooms, and after a campaign fiercely committed to vilifying transgender individuals and their right to use the restroom, it’s worth noting the NFL didn’t make any specific mention of such inclusions.
Yeah , we saw this comin’ a mile away. By some estimations, transgender people comprise far less than one percent of the entire population – I doubt their sympathizers have the numbers to force a multi-billion dollar behemoth like the NFL to change its mind.