Nikki Haley Falsely Links Rise In Girls’ Suicidal Thoughts To Trans Kids Playing Sports
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley implied that increased suicide rates among teen girls were tied to transgender girls using locker rooms when asked to define “woke” in a CNN Town Hall on Sunday night, drawing sharp backlash from mental health advocates and the LGBTQ+ community.
The former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador’s transphobic remarks came when CNN moderator Jake Tapper asked her to define “woke.” “The idea that we have biological boys playing in girls’ sports – it is the women’s issue of our time,” Haley said.
She said she didn’t know how she would have had a conversation about the presence of transgender girls on a high school team with her daughter, who ran track in high school. “How are we supposed to get our girls used to the fact that biological boys are in their locker room?
And then they wonder why a third of our teenage girls seriously contemplated suicide last year,” Haley said. “We should be growing strong girls; confident girls.” Haley also complained that “we have gender pronoun classes in the military now.” “All of these things that are pushing what a small minority want on a majority of Americans?” she said. “It’s too much.
