Some high-profile speakers tThe first night of the Republican National Convention doubled down on the party’s 2024 platform, leaning into anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. “men out of women’s sports” and an end to “leftist gender madness.”
Their speeches on Monday specifically targeted transgender and gender non-conforming people.
“Let me make this clear: There are only two genders,” he said. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
Rep. John James, R-Mich., criticized transgender women playing women’s sports, a popular conservative talking point.
“Our girls were sold on hope and now they are being forced into biological male playgrounds and locker rooms,” James said.
Moments earlier, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., cited another prominent conservative target. including Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill: teaching gender ideology or sexual orientation in schools.
“This fringe agenda includes the sexualization and indoctrination of biological males and our children competing against girls,” she said.
He will attend against Monday’s speeches background anti-LGBTQ incidents, including anti-Pride flag rhetoric and the cutting down of Pride Month banners.
Anti-LGBTQ legislation has increased in recent years. Last year, At least 75 anti-LGBTQ laws According to an NBC News analysis of data from the American Civil Liberties Union, 23 states have enacted laws, including those targeting gender-affirming care and school sports.
Ahead of the convention, party members released their Republican platform, which said they would “end the left’s gender insanity.”
“We will keep men out of women’s sports, ban taxpayer funding for sex reassignment surgeries and stop taxpayer-funded schools from promoting gender transition, reverse Biden’s radical rewrite of Title IX Education, and restore protections for women and girls,” he said. he said.
The Biden campaign criticized Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the GOP gubernatorial nominee of North Carolina, for his speech at X, pointing to his earlier comments about LGBTQ people, which he did not echo in his speech on Monday.
“There’s no reason for anyone anywhere in America to talk to any kid about transgenderism, homosexuality — any of that shit,” Robinson said. he said in 2021.