Bryan Fischer attacks girl for being crowned homecoming queen

Anti-LGBT pastor and American Family Association spokesperson Bryan Fischer lashed out at 16-year-old Cassidy Cambell on Monday, the trans girl who won her high school’s homecoming queen title. Fischer proclaimed that the teenager is mentally ill and volubly protested that news networks and media outlets covering her election are calling Cassidy “she” and “her” rather than her birth gender.

“He has a mental illness,” said Fischer on his daily radio show. “He thinks he’s a girl and they elected him homecoming queen and the school officials allowed this charade to go on. That violates everything we know about gender, about sex, about genetics, about biology, about human health, about what mental health is, it violates every known standard of decency and normality in America.”

Fischer’s has been but one of many angry, bullying messages that Campbell, a junior at Marina High School in Huntington Beach, CA, has received. She has been attacked online on Twitter and multiple other forums since Friday night.

“There’s always someone with something stupid to say,” said Vincent Villano of the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) in an interview with Raw Story.

“Fischer isn’t convincing anyone with his shameful comments,” Villano said. His remarks are “out of line” and show that he has “no understanding of who trans people are,” he continued.