‘If You’ve Got That Much Of A Problem, Hold It’: MA Dem Governor Candidate Told Critics Of Transgender Bathroom Bill

The Massachusetts attorney general, Maura Healey, who is running for the gubernatorial nomination, issued a scathing reply to people uncomfortable with sharing a bathroom with a transgender person in 2016, telling them, “If you’ve got that much of a problem, hold it.”

Healey’s retort came in response to critics who slammed legislation that would have enabled transgender people to use a bathroom or locker room that fit their preferred gender identity.

“Healey, in addressing the panel, took aim at those who term the legislation a ‘bathroom bill,’ according to the...