Sean Hannity Falsely Claims HERO Would Have “Forced” Girls “To Share Bathrooms And Showers With Biological Males”
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Sean Hannity falsely claimed the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) was about allowing women to share bathrooms with men who “just claim[ed] to be a woman.” The ordinance prohibited discrimination in areas like housing, employment, and city contracts on the basis of 15 characteristics, including race, sex, disability, religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity. The Houston City Council adopted HERO in May 2014, but after fierce opposition from anti-LGBT groups, the ordinance was placed on the ballot for possible repeal. After months of expensive, high profile campaigning, Houstonians voted to repeal the embattled equal rights ordinance on November 3. Opponents of the ordinance painted it as a “bathroom bill” by pushing the bogus talking point that the ordinance would allow sexual predators to sneak into women's restrooms by pretending to be transgender - a widely-debunked myth. From the November 4 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show: