Donald Trump has made his opposition to transgender rights central to his closing argument before Election Day, using demeaning language and misrepresentations to paint an exceedingly narrow slice of the U.S. population as a threat to national identity.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump watches as a video plays during a campaign rally in Greensboro, N.C., on Oct. 22, 2024.
“Is there a dynamic that’s going on where if you become trans, that’s the way to reject your white privilege?” Vance told podcaster Joe Rogan, citing conservative anger about affirmative action and other programs geared toward historically disenfranchised groups. “That’s the only social signifier,” Vance continued, “the only one that is available in the hyper-woke mindset, is if you become gender nonbinary.
Harris's campaign aides, meanwhile, see Trump’s approach as appealing only to hardline supporters already behind him, thus ceding issues, especially the economy, that resonate with many more voters who are not interested in another culture war battle. Sarah Kate Ellis, president of the LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD, said Trump's approach attacks “vulnerable people” who make up about one per cent of the population “and already are marginalized” by much of society.
“It sounds insane because it is insane,” the announcer states in an ad that, as of Thursday, had aired almost 28,000 times across presidential battlegrounds and national television. “Kamala’s agenda is ‘they-them,’ not you,’” the ad concludes, referring to non-gender-specific pronouns. The spoof video that is played on screens at Trump's rallies alternates between scenes of intense military training, sometimes with drill sergeants yelling at troops, and scenes depicting what are supposed to be LGBTQ members of the military, each displaying exaggerated feminine affects. The latter scenes, the video states, reflect the U.S. military under Biden and Harris.“We’re in the middle of a national identity crisis.
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Witches and warlocks have been flocking to New Brunswick waterways this month, as a new Halloween tradition ripples across the province. Toronto police say 59 suspects are facing a total of 300 charges in connection with an auto theft and re-vinning probe.Drake has released a new music video for his track 'No Face,' and Scarborough residents will likely know exactly where it was filmed.More than 44 years after human remains were found in a rural area of Markham, Ont., police are revealing that the deceased was an inmate who had escaped prison just a month before his body was found.
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