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Illinois governor calls out bigoted Republican’s weird query

Editorial Board Published June 13, 2025
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Throughout an immigration listening to on Thursday, Republican Rep. Brandon Gill of Texas pivoted right into a weird assault on transgender rights. Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois, who was testifying on the time, rapidly referred to as Gill out and castigated him for partaking in a political stunt.

Home Republicans initially stated the listening to can be about so-called sanctuary cities and requested Pritzker to testify alongside fellow Democratic Govs. Tim Walz of Minnesota and Kathy Hochul of New York. However then out of nowhere, Gill requested Pritzker, “Do you think that biological men should be able to use women’s restrooms?”

Clearly confused by the Republican’s unusual detour, Pritzker responded, “I’m not sure how this has to do with immigration.” As Gill badgered Pritzker for a solution, the Illinois governor replied, “I thought we were here doing fact-finding.”

Gill complained that Pritzker had written a social media publish about rest room utilization, however Gill failed to notice the publish’s context, a tactic Republicans usually use whereas pushing to restrict civil rights.

In 2017, throughout his first presidency, Donald Trump withdrew federal protections permitting transgender college students to make use of gender-appropriate restrooms. These protections had been put in place by former President Barack Obama’s administration.

In response to Trump, Pritzker mocked the motion in a February 2017 tweet, writing, “As a protest against Trump’s rescinding protections for trans kids, everyone should use the other gender’s bathroom today! #protecttranskids”

Throughout Thursday’s listening to, Gill continued to badger Pritzker about loos though the subject was unrelated to immigration, going as far as to ask Pritzker if he had ever used a girls’s rest room.

“What we ought to be focusing on is the failure of the federal government and the Congress to deal with immigration reform,” Pritzker defined. He then famous that Gill was primarily “admitting that is just a political circus,” and accused the Republican congressman of grandstanding.


From left, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul attend a listening to on June 12 on the U.S. Capitol.

Through the years, Republicans have blocked immigration reforms and have as an alternative backed failed insurance policies, like Trump’s border wall and present mass-deportation actions, which have sparked protests in a number of cities.

As Gill insisted on discussing loos, Pritzker pushed again and stated, “Let’s talk about your failure to vote for Medicaid. You want to take Medicaid away, end [the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] and veterans’ services. You apparently want people to die in the United States because you want to take health care away.” 

Pritzker is referring to Republicans’ push for enormous cuts to Medicaid and different security web applications within the Trump-backed “Big Beautiful Bill.”

Requested later about his bizarre line of questioning, Gill instructed a reporter that his rest room fixation was about Pritzker’s “credibility.”

Injecting the difficulty of transgender rights into an immigration listening to as soon as once more highlights the Republican Get together’s aim of undermining civil rights good points for the LGBTQ+ group. Trump and different Republicans have smeared and attacked transgender folks. Trump has additionally used his presidential energy to ban transgender army service and has tried to drive states to stop transgender participation in class athletics.

Pritzker has spent his time in workplace advocating for LGBTQ+ equality in Illinois. Final yr, he signed laws designed to guard transgender rights in response to Republican efforts on the state and federal degree to undo latest good points.

In a March speech to the LGBTQ+ civil rights group Human Rights Marketing campaign, Pritzker stated, “The Trump administration and his Republican lackeys in Congress are looking to reverse every single victory this community has won over the last 50 years.”

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