This is just a quick update: yesterday I wrote a post about a petition urging Tennessee state representative Richard Floyd to resign. He had sponsored a bill to harass people who are transgender when they attempt to use restrooms and make them show their birth certificates beforehand. This is even more strange because in Tennessee their laws prevent anyone from changing their sex on their birth certificate - it has to remain what the state decides it is at your birth. So by law, their birth certificate is incorrect from birth, and then they'd be legally punished later in life because of that fact.
But then, facing pressure and criticism from state and national organizations and blogs, Rep. Richard Floyd wouldn't back down from his proposal. Instead, he did a televised interview in which he said that he wants to "stomp a mudhole" in women who are transgender and who choose to use the same dressing room/restroom as his wife or daughter at the same time they're using it. He seems very attached to his bill, and beyond that, attached to his deep-seated hatred and fear of people who are transgender, and apparently especially women who are transgender. The fact that he felt comfortable enough to go on TV and discuss violently attacking people who are his constituents really speaks volumes.