Gays for Trump founder runs for office [View all]

Peter Boykin (Washington Blade/Lou Chibbaro via National LGBT Media Association)


Gays for Trump founder Peter Boykin is running for the North Carolina Legislature. He has no opposition in the Republican primary in a heavily Democratic district in Greensboro, according to the Charlotte Observer.

Boykin made news last week with controversial comments in the Daily Beast about the transgender community, supporting Trump’s transgender military ban.

He said transgender are “mentally challenged” and “would be our weakest link.”

“People already have enough problems with PTSD, I don’t think it’s a good idea to give someone going through that type of change a weapon,” he said in the interview. “They might snap and turn it on their fellow soldiers.”

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