Some high-profile speakers on the first night of the Republican National Convention leaned into anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, doubling down on the party’s 2024 platform, which calls for keeping “men out of women’s sports” and ending “left-wing gender insanity.”
Their speeches Monday especially targeted transgender and non-gender-conforming people.
“Let me state this clearly: There are only two genders,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
Rep. John James, R-Mich., criticized transgender women’s playing in women’s sports, a popular conservative talking point.
“Our daughters were sold on hope, and now they’re being forced on the playing fields and changing rooms of biological males,” James said.
Minutes earlier, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., referred to another prominent conservative target, including in Florida’s so-called Don’t Say Gay bill: the teaching of gender ideology or sexual orientation in schools.
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