Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for U.S. senator from Georgia, is being blasted for delivering an anti-transgender speech and running an anti-trans ad the day after the mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs.
The five people killed at Club Q included a trans man and a trans woman.Walker, who is up against incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in a December 6 runoff, gave the speech Sunday in Carrollton, Ga.
In it, he denounced “weak leaders in Washington” who, he said, couldn’t define what a woman is and said men could get pregnant.
He also said that “men shouldn’t be in women’s sport,” according to audio obtained by Jezebel.He went on to condemn Warnock in a rant about use of correct pronouns for military personnel. “Pronouns.