Outrage over transgender women competing in women’s individual and team sports is emerging as a dominant theme in Republican primaries.
Two of the three campaign spots feature transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, who won a national championship in the women's 500-meter freestyle in March. Thomas’s rise in the ranks of women’s collegiate swimming after a middling career competing against men before she transitioned has sparked controversy in athletic circles and contributed to anxiety on the political Right about society’s celebration of the transgender movement.
Party strategists believe the spots can move votes, in part, they explain, because this topic touches multiple issues that matter to grassroots Republicans. Their concern about the impact of LGBT culture on society, and especially children, is simply the most obvious. Hartzler’s 30-second television spot is framed entirely around Thomas. The congresswoman shows pictures of Thomas side-by-side — one as a man before she transitioned, the other as a woman after — as she vows to protect women’s sports from “men pretending to be women.”
Britt takes a slightly different, if not more urgent, approach. The former chief of staff to retiring Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama does not refer to, nor use pictures of, Thomas to drive her message. Rather, Britt uses a gym locker room decked out in red as the setting for her 30-second television spot, declaring that “crazy” liberals oppose God in the schools but “want boys in the girl’s locker room.
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