RNC Speeches Embrace Hate for the LGBTQ Community

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transgender participation in women’s sports, which has become a rallying cry in recent years as various Republican-led legislatures have passed laws barring trans participation, and as various sporting bodies have sought to adopt restrictions prohibiting transgender or intersex athletes from competing as women.

James accused Democrats of wanting “to take your dollars…take your voice…take your control, and give it back to D.C. bureaucrats to execute their woke and Green New Deal agenda.”“Our daughters were sold on hope, and now they’re being forced on the playing fields and changing rooms of biological males,” James said, as part of a litany of grievances complaining about Democratic policy priorities and broken campaign promises.U.S.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) accused Democrats of pursuing radical policies, decrying transgender participation in sport and the teaching of LGBTQ-related topics in schools.“Today’s Democrat party is not the party of our parents and grandparents,” Johnson said. “That party cared about workers and people struggling to get by.

Now they are the party of open borders, reckless spending, and weakness on the world stage. Their fringe agenda includes biological males competing against girls, and the sexualization and indoctrination of our children.”Johnson later claimed that he had mistakenly delivered an earlier version of his speech, which was more divisive than a revised speech embracing the Republican Party’s preferred theme of promoting “unity” among Americans.The speech had been changed after the recent attempted assassination of Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump on Saturday, but Johnson later told CBS News that someone had loaded the earlier version into the teleprompter.On the convention’s second night, Florida Gov.