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Permalinkthe ears of millions of American parents and children. The ad often
played during the commercial breaks of NFL, college football and MLB
postseason games.
The phrase was launched by the Trump campaign in September. It was
repeated in ads, not just for Trump, but candidates down-ballot on the
Republican ticket. It has been hailed as the most effective campaign
slogan of the entire 2024 cycle.
The ad presented imagery of transgender people in designer clothing,
while highlighting Harris’ previous support for legislation that would
allow trans athletes to compete against girls and women in sports.
A national exit poll conducted by the Concerned Women for America (CWA)
legislative action committee found that 70% of moderate voters saw the
issue of "Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender boys and men playing
girls and women’s sports and of transgender boys and men using girls
and women’s bathrooms," as important to them.
And 6% said it was the most important issue of all, while 44% said it
was "very important."
Trump’s campaign seized on the issue in the homestretch of the election
cycle. He boasted about his stance and his pledge to ban trans athletes
in women’s sports at nearly every rally in the final month.
And in the background, a brewing cultural movement stirred in nearly
every corner of the country, focused on this singular issue. It was
fueled by women’s rights groups and young female athletes who felt as
though they were being dismissed by an unfair system – a system most
common in blue states.
The Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS), which was founded in
2023, emerged as a leading advocacy group in the protection of women
athletes from trans inclusion this year. It has spearheaded viral
conversations on the issue, and has taken the lead in multiple lawsuits
focused on the protection of women against trans athletes.
Still, for Trump and the Republican Party, it was a movement that
provided a sudden surge in support among young college-educated women.
Biden’s 35-point lead among young women over Trump in 2020 shrunk to a
24-point lead for Harris this year, per an NBC News exit poll.
It was an issue that helped re-shape the electorate.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/how-transgenderism-sports-shifted-2024-election-ignited-national-counterculture
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"Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as
distinguished from the liberal, who wishes to replace them with
others." ~ Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
"Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as
distinguished from the liberal, who wishes to replace them with
others." ~ Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary