Republican Herschel Walker's closing argument against Sen. Raphael Warnock before the runoff includes fanning fears about transgender athletes competing against women and girls.
Kemp hardly mentioned the subject after the primary. Tammy Greer, a political scientist at Clark Atlanta University, told Axios it is confusing why Walker would veer from Kemp’s playbook.
"Kemp said it's all about economics. You know that that's a win. So why are we moving away from the win?" she said., and LGBTQ rights advocates say that the rhetoric is having widespread consequences for the safety and well-being of trans people — even as the issue is largely manufactured, given relatively low numbers of trans youth participating in organized sports.
Nearly 20 states including Georgia have passed legislation restricting trans athletes from sports that match their gender identities.Jeff Graham, executive director of Georgia Equality, tells Axios the debate is driven by "misinformation." He knows of one transgender athlete who attends a private Georgia high school and pointed out that athletic regulation generally happens locally or with regulatory bodies like the NCAA.
"It's rhetoric and not really an issue. But just by the way [Walker is] characterizing it, it does harm to young people," he said.85% of transgender and nonbinary youth — and nearly two-thirds of all LGBTQ youth — said debates about anti-trans laws have negatively affected their mental health, according to afound more than two-thirds of LGBTQ young people have never participated in school sports, citing fear of bullying and discrimination.
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