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Eugene

(62,732 posts)
Sun Feb 18, 2024, 01:31 PM Feb 2024

GOP candidates elevate anti-transgender messaging as a rallying call to Christian conservatives

Source: Associated Press

GOP candidates elevate anti-transgender messaging as a rallying call to Christian conservatives

BY JAMES POLLARD
Updated 12:35 PM EST, February 18, 2024

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Thousands of people in one of South Carolina’s most conservative counties roared when Donald Trump promised to cut federal funding on “Day 1” for schools pushing what he called “transgender insanity” onto children.

“And I can’t even believe I have to say it, but I do have to say it,” Trump told the crowd this month. “I will keep men out of women’s sports.”

The former president has repeatedly mocked transgender people during his campaign, using language about gender identity that LGBTQ+ advocates say is wrong and harmful. Others in the GOP field have attacked transgender participation in athletics and proposed nationwide bans on affirming care for transgender minors.

Transgender-related issues have become perhaps the biggest rallying call to Christian conservatives, more than abortion rights or same-sex marriage. That shift worries advocates who note transgender people are already disproportionately prone to stress, depression and suicidal behavior when forced to live as the sex they were assigned at birth.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/lgbtq-transgender-republicans-trump-christian-conservatives-election-83becc009d8123d96a75c2e4940ab339

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GOP candidates elevate anti-transgender messaging as a rallying call to Christian conservatives (Original Post) Eugene Feb 2024 OP
Please refer them to the words of Jesus multigraincracker Feb 2024 #1
These people are evil LostOne4Ever Feb 2024 #2

multigraincracker

(34,191 posts)
1. Please refer them to the words of Jesus
Sun Feb 18, 2024, 01:38 PM
Feb 2024

Matthew 19:12 where he explains eunuchs. Some are born that way, some made that way by others and those that make themselves that way.
Love to hear what they say about such things.

LostOne4Ever

(9,598 posts)
2. These people are evil
Sun Feb 18, 2024, 02:16 PM
Feb 2024

If there is one thing Yeshua of Nazareth would never be, it is a conservative Christian.

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