GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley went following transgender rights in the course of a Republican town hall Sunday in Iowa, calling the debate more than no matter if transgender girls and girls ought to be permitted to compete on sports teams alongside their cisgender peers the “women’s problem of our time.”
“The concept that we have biological boys playing in girls’ sports, it is the women’s problem of our time,” Haley, a former South Carolina governor and former ambassador to the United Nations, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday. “My daughter ran track in higher college. I do not even know how I would have that conversation with her.”
Haley also recommended in the course of Sunday’s town hall that permitting transgender girls to use college restrooms and locker rooms constant with their gender identity is contributing to an raise in suicidal ideation amongst cisgender teenage girls.
“How are we supposed to get our girls utilised to the truth that biological boys are in their locker area? And then we wonder why a third of our teenage girls seriously contemplated suicide final year,” Haley mentioned, referencing research from the Centers for Illness Manage and Prevention (CDC). “We ought to be increasing robust girls, confident girls.”
The exact same CDC report, released in February, identified that a lot more than half of young LGBTQ people today in the U.S. had skilled poor mental well being more than the previous year, and a staggering 22 % had attempted suicide. No connection was drawn among thoughts of suicide in teenage girls and the presence of transgender students in college restrooms, locker rooms or sports.
A report released final month by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ youth suicide prevention organization, identified that a lot more than half of transgender and nonbinary young children, teens and young adults in the U.S. had seriously viewed as suicide more than the final year.
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Since launching her White Home bid, Haley in February has zeroed in on transgender problems on the campaign trail, regularly criticizing the inclusion of transgender girls and girls in sports and in media.
At a campaign quit in New Hampshire final month, Haley took jabs at Dylan Mulvaney, the transgender influencer at the center of the Bud Light controversy, calling her a “guy, dressed up like a girl, producing enjoyable of girls.”
“Women do not act like that,” Haley continued in remarks that had been largely met with silence, according to reporting from Newsweek. “Yet, everybody’s asking yourself why a third of our teenage girls seriously contemplated suicide final year?”
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