The National Center for Transgender Equality Plays a Prank

On Wednesday, April 1st (April Fools’ Day) the NCTE released a press release stating that using a $1,000,000 grant from the Florida State Legislature, they would build a state-of-the-art laboratory in the basement of its Washington DC headquarters to create “transgender people who do not need to pee.”

The joke was used to take a joking (but serious) jab at lawmakers who recently tried to ban transgender people from using bathrooms that match their gender identity. In fact, there are few states that have introduced similar bills: Kentucky, Texas, Minnesota, Missouri, and Nevada.

‘This partnership with the Florida legislature just makes sense. Trans people are always being harassed or attacked in bathrooms. Honestly, most of us don’t feel safe. And now with state lawmakers attacking us legislatively, we thought we’d try to solve this bathroom problem once and for all,’ said NCTE’s Mara Keisling.

The NCTE quoted Steve Crisafulli, Speaker of the Florida State House of Representatives, as saying, ‘It’s a win-win. And since we don’t really “do” science here in Florida, why not hire the transgenders themselves to do it.’

‘They’re pee-ple too!’ he joked.

‘This project may not help existing trans people, but maybe the next generation of us won’t need to fear people who won’t mind their own business in the bathroom,’ Keisling said.

Pretty funny, right? Good job, NCTE!