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USS_Dauntless

(239 posts)
Wed Jan 14, 2026, 08:58 PM 7 hrs ago

GOP lawmaker said trans people "harm" children. Now he's going to prison for child porn.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/gop-lawmaker-said-trans-people-harm-children-now-hes-going-to-for-child/

South Carolina state Rep. RJ May (R) — an anti-LGBTQ+ politician who has accused drag queens and transgender people of harming kids — was sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to five counts of distributing child sex abuse material (CSAM).

May — who was honored by the anti-LGBTQ+ “parents’ rights” group Moms for Liberty in 2023 as its Legislator of the Year — first denied the charges after investigators found evidence that he had shared hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds. Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, who sentenced May, said the CSAM he shared was “more severe” than any other she had ever seen before, WIS-TV reported.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/gop-lawmaker-said-trans-people-harm-children-now-hes-going-to-for-child/

To the surprise of NO ONE with two brain cells to rub together.

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GOP lawmaker said trans people "harm" children. Now he's going to prison for child porn. (Original Post) USS_Dauntless 7 hrs ago OP
Whoopsies kwolf68 7 hrs ago #1
As my gran always said... buzzycrumbhunger 7 hrs ago #2
Your gran was a smart lady. USS_Dauntless 4 hrs ago #7
Today's Republican Party. A bunch of social creeps. OAITW r.2.0 7 hrs ago #3
Trump certainly attracts a type, doesn't he? Initech 7 hrs ago #4
Birds of a SHIT feather. USS_Dauntless 4 hrs ago #8
The outspoken ones are always the ones.. Klarkashton 7 hrs ago #5
Typical right wing projection chicoescuela 6 hrs ago #6
How do the right-wing nut jobs maintain any credibility? Duncan Grant 2 hrs ago #9

buzzycrumbhunger

(1,670 posts)
2. As my gran always said...
Wed Jan 14, 2026, 09:04 PM
7 hrs ago

Smeller’s the feller.

Where right-wingers are concerned this seems more and more to be the case. Seems like there’s another one arrested every day or more. *eyeroll*

OAITW r.2.0

(31,577 posts)
3. Today's Republican Party. A bunch of social creeps.
Wed Jan 14, 2026, 09:06 PM
7 hrs ago

We used to jail these anti=socialist creeps. Instead, they found a home in the Republican Party. A tent of of low intelligent, social degenerates.

Duncan Grant

(8,877 posts)
9. How do the right-wing nut jobs maintain any credibility?
Thu Jan 15, 2026, 01:34 AM
2 hrs ago

This is only the most recent example of malevolent abuse of children — there’s a very long history of others.

How morally and intellectually compromised do you have to be to keep drinking this right-wing kool-aid?! FFS.

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