Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who also is the frontrunner in the Republican primary for governor, made the remarks at a campaign stop in Cary, according to an NBC News report.
“We’re going to defend women in this state,” he said. “That means if you’re a man on Friday night and all of the sudden on Saturday, you feel like a woman and you want to go in the women’s bathroom in the mall, you will be arrested — or whatever we got to do to you.
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At an event in Greenville, the network said, Mr. Robinson said people who “are confused” about their sex can “find a corner outside somewhere to go” to the bathroom.
“We’re not tearing society down because of this,” he said.
Mr. Robinson faces off with two other North Carolina Republicans in next month’s gubernatorial primary — state Treasurer Dale Folwell and attorney Bill Graham — both of whom criticized his remarks as hateful.