With the 2024 election fast approaching, the Gender Research Advocacy Council & Education (GRACE) released a public service announcement this week featuring a conservative U.S.
Army veteran named Eric Childs who was raising a trans son before he died in an accident shortly after his Republican governor, Henry McMaster (R-S.C.), signed a series of anti-trans bills.
GRACE hopes Childs’s message will push back against the deluge of anti-trans attack ads run by conservative candidates including former President Donald Trump.
Republicans have spent tens of millions in an effort to make trans rights a salient and divisive issue ahead of Election Day. “To me, serving my country was defense of freedom, fighting for democracy, defending our country in its entirety after we’d been attacked,” Childs said in the PSPA. “Freedom means liberty.