Trump campaign urged to make transgender youth the wedge issue of 2020

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Conservative activists are pushing the Donald Trump campaign and other groups supporting his reelection to focus more ads on attacking transgender youth as a way of getting votes for the GOP this fall.

The American Principles Project (APP), a conservative non-profit organization, will be debuting two ads next week in Michigan that attack Joe Biden for allegedly endorsing “gender change treatments for minors,” citing his support for measures to fight against LGBTQ youth homelessness, school bullying, sexual assault, and suicide.

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One of the ads features former drag performer and “ex-gay” Kevin Whitt saying that children “need time” to develop a sense of gender and therefore transgender youth should not be affirmed but instead told to act like their sex assigned at birth.

Whitt has previously claimed that God showed him his “true identity” as a cisgender, straight man and his “desires to do drag, party, or have sex lessened.”

Conservative activist Terry Schilling of APP said that his group ran similar ads in Kentucky and their research showed that they were able to move thousands of conservative Democrats to vote for the Republican gubernatorial candidate with the anti-transgender message. Those ads showed cisgender boys competing in girls’ school sports and said that supporting transgender youth will “destroy girls’ sports.”

“What I’m hoping is that once we release these ads and numbers start to move, the Trump campaign will see it’s a powerful issue that the Republican Party can use to its success,” Schilling told Politico.

Christian conservatives would like the party to attack transgender youth more, according to the article….

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