In the online “overtime” segment of HBO's “real-time” broadcast on Friday, former Chicago mayor Rahm Emmanuel said that in seventh grade he was able to enter the girls' bathroom by identifying as a trans person as “I would have done it.” But “I don't want to hear other words about the bathroom until I tell you what I'm going to do in the classroom.”
While discussing the Democratic mayoral struggle, Emmanuel said, “I don't want to hear another word about the bathroom because I don't want to hear another word about the locker room. I'd better start focusing on the classroom. We had the worst reading score for eighth graders in 30 years, but not the governor, not the mayor, not the president, not the secretary of education.”
He added: “If I had known in 7th grade that I had arrived in the girls' bathroom with the word 'them', I would have done it. …We are literally a superpower, playing against China with 1.4 billion people, two-thirds of children cannot be read at the 8th grade level. …I don't want to hear another word about the bathroom until you tell me what you're going to do in the classroom. sufficient. “
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