The old right-hander is winning again — with right-wingers. After ESPN forced Curt Schilling off his network mound, conservative media outlets defended his right to denigrate transgender people.

As CBS New York reported: “Schilling shared a post Monday showing a man in a wig, wearing a tight shirt, skirt and stockings with the caption: ‘Let him in? To the restroom with your daughter or else you’re a narrow minded, judgmental, unloving racist bigot who needs to die!!!’ In a comment underneath the post, Schilling said, ‘A man is a man no matter what they call themselves. I don’t care what they are, who they sleep with, men’s room was designed for the penis, women’s not so much. Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic.’”
On the GOP campaign trail, Sen. Ted Cruz told Glenn Beck’s radio show: “ESPN fired Curt Schilling for making the rather obvious point that we shouldn’t allow grown male adult strangers alone in a bathroom with little girls. That’s a point anyone who is rational should understand.”
Cruz also referred to his time as solicitor general of Texas dealing with “people who are repulsive perverts and criminals.”
“There are some bad people in the world, and we shouldn’t be facilitating putting little girls alone in a bathroom with grown adult men,” he said. “That is just a bad, bad, bad idea.”
Others on the right jumped in with the dittos:
Curt Schilling is going down in a blaze of glory. https://t.co/b7UpG6XUYL pic.twitter.com/BDB2GoiNcp
— VICE Sports (@VICESports) April 22, 2016
Yes, ESPN has a right to fire Curt Schilling—so what rights do people of faith have? https://t.co/12GNIMHskR @RyanTAnd
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) April 22, 2016
“Keep dissent to yourself. All your words belong to your boss.”
That’s what @gehrig38‘s case teaches us. https://t.co/hQx2alLVOu
— National Review (@NRO) April 22, 2016
Cruz rips ESPN for firing Schilling over transgender post https://t.co/Yfr2tBnvjh | AP photo pic.twitter.com/bbXfCUAPfY
— POLITICO (@politico) April 21, 2016
