Sen. Tommy Tuberville claims many airline pilots, air traffic controllers part of the furry community

Fly the furry skies.Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville claimed the airline industry is full of members of the “furry” subculture in a bizarre speech from the Senate floor connecting transgenderism to mental illness.“Gender confusion is an extremely serious mental problem that our society better start addressing.Unfortunately, these gender-confused individuals aren’t just harming themselves; they’re also turning into violent people and hurting other people,” the GOP Senator said Tuesday during his 20-minute speech.“In 2022, a study found that youth who identify as gender confused are at the highest risk of becoming violently radicalized,” he said, standing beside an easel displaying a posterboard featuring the “pregnant man” emoji — which was rolled out to Apple devices in March 2022 — with the heading “transgenderism is a mental disease.”The website Furscience defines furries as a community in which most individuals “create for themselves an anthropomorphized animal character (fursona) with whom they identify,” noting that some “wear elaborate costumes (called fursuits) or paraphernalia such as animal ears or tails, or represent themselves as anthropomorphic animals in online communities such as Second Life.”Tuberville pointed out recent examples of political violence allegedly perpetrated by those with ties to the furry community, including accused Charlie Kirk assassin, Tyler Robinson.“The investigation into Tyler Robinson revealed that he was living with a man, his lover, who is a gender-confused [individual] and was going by the pronouns of ‘she/her.’ Tyler himself was involved in transgender, furry culture — a bizarre subset of transgenderism where people are sexually attracted and frequently dress up as animals,” he said.“Thomas Crooks, the lunatic who shot President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024 was also [involved] in online transgender furry culture and apparently used ‘they/them’ pronouns,” ...