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Josephine Harvey at HuffPost:

A right-wing social media influencer was ridiculed and fact-checked after melting down over a gender-neutral bathroom at Kansas City International Airport. In a video posted on X, Morgonn McMichael filmed herself walking into the restroom, complaining that it was a “crazy” concept. “I hate this,” she says in the clip. “I have never seen an all-gender bathroom. I am not going in here.” “If you SUPPORT ‘all gender’ bathrooms you’re either a creep or a freak,” she wrote in a separate post. But as commenters noted, she had no need to use the bathroom if she didn’t want to. A reader context note was added to the bottom of McMichael’s post, pointing out that there are gender-specific bathrooms available in addition to the gender-neutral one. The bathrooms are in the new terminal of the airport, which opened in February last year. The facilities were built under a policy supported by the Kansas City LGBTQ Commission.

Justice Horn, chair of that commission, replied to the post personally. “First, these are single stall, all gender bathrooms that allow for greater privacy. There are gender specific bathrooms down the hall too,” he wrote. “Finally, don’t use my community to create fake outrage―it’s sad.” He also noted that inclusive policies benefit “all of us.” “Fathers with daughters, mothers with sons, folks with disabilities, those traveling with elderly loved ones, and LGBTQ+ folks,” he wrote. “Single stall, all gender bathrooms create a space that meets folks where they’re at.”

On the website of Turning Point USA — a conservative youth group — a bio for McMichael describes her as a Gen Z content creator who speaks about “feminism, cancel culture, free speech, and conservative values,” and “confronts the American culture war head-on.” Amid backlash over her complaint, she doubled down. “The left just loves protecting groomers and advocating for ‘all gender’ shared bathrooms to make lgbt people comfortable….I won’t apologize. ‘All gender’ multi stall bathrooms shouldn’t exist,” she wrote in another tweet.

Morgonn McMichael, a right-wing influencer who works for Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA, posted an unhinged viral video about her hatred for all-gender restrooms in the Kansas City International Airport's all-gender bathrooms in a bid to gin up anti-trans faux outrage.

McMichael doubled down on her transphobic complaint about all-gender restrooms, by baselessly stating that "the left just loves protecting groomers" and declaring that all-gender restrooms shouldn't exist.

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LGBTQ Nation: A rightwinger tried to go viral with outrage video about airport bathrooms. It backfired completely.