Some high-end speakers in tfirst night of the Republican National Convention leaned into anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, doubling down on the party’s 2024 platform, which calls for maintaining “men out of women’s sports” and end the “gender insanity of the left”.
His Monday speeches especially targeted trans and gender non-conforming people.
“Let me state this clearly: There are only two genders,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
Representative. John TiagoR-Mich., criticized the practice of trans women in women’s sports, a popular conservative talking point.
“Our daughters were sold on hope and are now being forced onto biological male playing fields and locker rooms,” James said.
Minutes earlier, Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, referred to another prominent conservative target, including in Florida’s so-called Don’t Say Gay bill: the teaching of gender ideology or sexual orientation in schools.
“This fringe agenda includes biological males competing against girls and the sexualization and indoctrination of our children,” he said as the audience booed.
Monday’s speeches take place against the background from a series of anti-LGBTQ incidents, including anti-Pride flag rhetoric and the cutting of Pride Month banners.
Anti-LGBTQ legislation has increased in recent years. Last year, at least 75 anti-LGBTQ laws — including those targeting gender-affirming care and school sports — have been enacted in 23 states, according to an NBC News analysis of American Civil Liberties Union data.
Before the convention, party members published their platform, which states that Republicans will “end the gender insanity of the left.”
“We will keep men out of women’s sports, ban taxpayer funding for gender reassignment surgeries and stop taxpayer-funded schools from promoting gender transition, reverse Biden’s radical rewrite of the Title IX Education Regulations, and restore protections for women and girls”, says the document. he said.
Biden’s campaign criticized North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor, in X for speaking out, pointing to his past comments about LGBTQ people, which he did not repeat in Monday’s speech.
“There is no reason why anyone anywhere in America should tell any child about transgenderism, homosexuality – any of that crap,” Robinson had said in 2021.
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