Check Out Houston Mayor's 'Shameful' Reaction to Criticism in Wake of Failed Transgender Ordinance

After Houston voters defeated an LGBT nondiscrimination ordinance that critics said would allow men to access women’s bathrooms and boys to access girls showers and locker rooms, Annise Parker — the openly gay mayor of the nation’s fourth-largest city — was not happy.

Houston Mayor Annise Parker speaks to supporters of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance at a watch party Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, in Houston. The ordinance that would have established nondiscrimination protections for gay and transgender people in Houston did not pass. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

“All of this about pedophiles going into women’s restrooms was an out and out and falsehood, they knew it was a falsehood, and they sold a bill of goods,"  Parker said Wednesday. "That’s all I can say. Masterfully played.”

But that isn't all she said.

When someone called out Parker for name-calling toward those who voted against the ordinance, she only doubled down on the ad hominem attacks:

@AnniseParker was elected as an openly gay official nine times by the same voters that voted against #HERO and she calls us #homophobes

— Texan 4 Liberty (@Tex_4_Lib) November 5, 2015

No, actually I called you transphobes, but if the shoe fits...-A https://t.co/UwCnDZhu2H

— Annise Parker (@AnniseParker) November 5, 2015

"No, actually I called you transphobes, but if the shoe fits...-A," Parker wrote back.

And with that the floodgates opened, with one commenter on Saturday calling her words "shameful" and others doing much the same:

@AnniseParker Really? A sitting Mayor calling people names? You need to B run out of office on a rail. You work for the people! Shameful!

— WestTexasDust (@WestTexasDust) November 7, 2015

@AnniseParker @Tex_4_Lib If by "transphobe" you mean- "one who believes standard issued equipment should determine bathroom used" then yes.

— AW (@AdoubleU17) November 5, 2015

@AnniseParker What an immature and sophomoric attempt to insult those who disagree with you. Must be a mental disorder

— FergusFSU (@FergusFSU) November 5, 2015

@AnniseParker Name-calling. Very classy, Mayor. And most of us aren't phobic...we are neither fearful or uninformed. We simply disagree.

— Sarah Jane (@chsj135) November 5, 2015

@AnniseParker @Tex_4_Lib Transphobe is a very creative term. I guess the mayor would be a commonsensephobe.

— Clint Miller (@clintmiller62) November 7, 2015

(H/T: Young Conservatives)

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