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.
Rep. John James, R-Mich., criticized transgender women’s playing in women’s sports, a popular conservative talking point.
