Chud state senator pledges to protect small girl from bathroom predators, spills spaghetti

On Feb. 6, a group of families met to lobby senators on issues affecting the local transgender community in Georgia. One mother, Lena Kotler, decided to take her two children with her to give the topic a human face.

According to Kotler and other families who were present, the senator stopped to say hello. That's when Kotler spoke to state Senator Carden Summers, the primary sponsor of the state's bathroom ban bill, about how she was there with her kids to “talk to legislators about keeping her kids safe.”

Although she did not mention that one of her children was trans, they were present with LGBTQ+ signage – something the Senator apparently missed when he knelt down in front of Aleix and said, according to Kotler, “Well you know, we're working on that and I'm going to protect kids like you.”

Kotler then replied, “Yeah – Aleix is trans, and she wants to be safe at school, she wants to go to the bathroom and be safe.”

That is when, according to multiple witnesses, Sen. Summers stood up and fumbled his words, repeating, “I mean, yeah, I'm going to make sure she's safe by going to the right bathroom,” continuing to use the correct pronouns for Aleix. When asked if he would make her go to a boy's bathroom, he then allegedly backed away, saying, “You're attacking me,” turned around, and walked off quickly.