The Transgender Law Center has criticized a Republican state lawmaker from Tennessee for threatening violence toward transgender people. Tennessee State Rep. Richard Floyd recently described what he would do if a transgender person entered a dressing room while his wife or daughters were trying on clothes. Floyd said, “I don’t care if he thinks he’s a woman and tries on clothes with them in there — I’d just try to stomp a mudhole in him and then stomp him dry.” Masen Davis of the Transgender Law Center said, “Representative Floyd’s threats send the message that it is okay to attack innocent people based on their gender identity and expression.”