Students from the University of Illinois at Chicago protested a Turning Point USA college event Thursday evening at the UIC Forum featuring far-right speakers Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens.
Protesters march toward the UIC Forum on March 9, 2023, before a Turning Point USA event featuring far-right speakers Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens.
The group pursued a nonengagement policy to keep students safe. But TPUSA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet said Thursday that students protesting would be welcome to a debate with Kirk. On a March 6 episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, which is broadcast on Salem Radio stations across the country, Kirk called transgender people “sick.” That is just one example of his vitriolic remarks against people of the LGBTQ community, said Asha Edwards, a Black 22-year-old senior at UIC who identifies as gender-fluid.“I’m really concerned because have very vicious anti-trans rhetoric, which is dehumanizing,” Edwards said.
to speak out on “transgenderism,” saying “there is no middle ground on transgenderism” and that “if you don’t have the courage to say what needs to be said, we truly don’t need you.”
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