Anti-Trans Scare Campaign Targets West Virginia Candidate

http://www.advocate.com/election/2016/11/07/anti-trans-scare-campaign-targets-west-virginia-candidate

The Advocate/By Yezmin Villarreal November 07 2016 6:48 PM EST

"Stephen Skinner, an gay member of West Virginia's House of Delegates who is seeking a state Senate seat, is the latest target of anti-LGBT robocalls.

The call features a 12-year-old girl who says Skinner "pushed the city councils to let men into our showers." The call references the Religious Freedom Protection Act, which Skinner supported; it included an amendment outlawing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The bill did not pass, partly because "conservatives argued its nondiscrimination language would allow men to go into women's bathrooms," reports The Huffington Post. "