GOP Convention Opens With Anti-LGBTQ Attacks

NBC News reports:

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.

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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Ron Johnson gets the RNC crowd fired up with some good old fashioned transphobia and QAnon dogwhistling

(also note that the “unity” theme is already totally out the window … ) pic.twitter.com/sPWhn7D9qA

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 15, 2024

Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric plays a prominent role in first night of RNC https://t.co/5yidnawacl

— Mark Meyer (@mmyer1018) July 16, 2024

Republican National Convention: Marjorie Taylor Greene Attacks Transgender Individuals And “Illegal Aliens” https://t.co/BeKgXHMlqn

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) July 16, 2024