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Tommy Tuberville brings poster warning about 'furries' at airports

politicsSep 23, 202635935

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) took the Senate floor Wednesday with a speech and a prop board claiming "Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community." Tuberville said, "Lord help us. It's terrifying when you think about this. When you walk onto a commercial flight, it's possible that the pilot flying your plane could have a deranged fetish of dressing up like an animal." He delivered that digression while attacking the transgender community and displayed a poster reading "TRANSGENDERISM IS A MENTAL DISEASE" accompanied by an emoji of a pregnant man. The article notes Republicans have in recent years fixated on furries despite the fandom largely being role-players, and it cites recurring right-wing hoaxes about schools offering litter boxes to students. The reporting also points out one documented Colorado school case where cat litter was stocked as emergency relief supplies, not for any purported deviant purpose.

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