>Over the past several weeks, Trump and his allies have aired ads across important battleground states, pushing misinformation and false claims about gender-affirming care, [transgender](https://www.advocate.com/transgender?utm_campaign=SmartLinks) athletes, and public accommodations for trans people, all while framing Vice President [Kamala Harris](http://advocate.com/kamala-harris) and the Biden-Harris administration as champions of “extreme” transgender policies. The ads have been airing heavily during college sports games.  


>***These ads are just one part of Trump’s larger effort to use transgender issues as a political wedge. Since August, Republicans have spent more than $65 million on television ads othering the trans community, according to a New York Times*** [***analysis***](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/us/politics/trump-republican-transgender-ads.html)***.***

>*In another ad posted to Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, a dramatization unfolds between a fictional Harris-Walz supporter and a homeowner. The ad shows the supporter placing a Harris-Walz campaign sign in the homeowner’s yard, leading to an angry confrontation. The homeowner, visibly upset, expresses frustration over transgender-inclusive policies, focusing specifically on the idea of tampons being placed in men’s bathrooms. When asked by the Harris-Walz supporter why she doesn’t support such policies, the homeowner angrily retorts, “Because tampons are for women. Where are they going to stick it? Up their ass?”*

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***The confrontation escalates into a heated exchange over pronouns and gender identity. When the Harris-Walz supporter accuses the homeowner of not addressing them by their pronouns, the homeowner dismissively responds with an expletive-laden insult, ridiculing the idea of gender inclusivity. The homeowner’s companion then joins in, mocking the Harris-Walz supporter by misgendering them and derisively asking, “What are you? He, she, f\*\*\*ing transgender?” The supporter responds mockingly, identifying as Two-Spirit, which is also met with disdain.***

And I bet these same supporters would describe themselves as "good Christians". Trans people aren't asking for much other than just live, and Republicans have made their lives hell, because they can't stand a world where equality exists, where their Christian nationalism doesn't suppress others from living. It's despicable.

  
The Republican Party is worse than the Westboro Baptist Church.