Earlier this year, 2016 Republican presidential hopeful and Josh Duggar apologist Mike Huckabee made a speech at the 2015 National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, where he joked that he would have claimed he "felt like a woman" in high school so he could have showered with the girls. The Broadcasters Convention took place at the beginning of the year, but footage of Huckabee's speech only made its way online last weekend, Buzzfeed reports.

"I wish that someone told me that when I was in high school that I could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers in PE," Huckabee said. "I'm pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, 'Coach, I think I'd rather shower with the girls today.'"

He also said that America is under threat thanks to ordinances that allow for seven-year-old girls to go into the bathroom and be "greeted there by a 42-year-old man who feels more like a woman than he does a man." Grind your teeth through the entire 25-minute speech above.

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