WI-SEN: Trans-rights advocates call Hovde, Trump ads focusing on transgender issues 'dehumanizing'
Campaign ads for the presidential and senate races have dominated Wisconsin’s airwaves in the last few months, addressing key issues like immigration, the economy and reproductive rights in an attempt to sway voters in the swing state.
But in recent weeks, some ads supporting former President Donald Trump and Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde have also focused on the rights of transgender Americans.
During the first half of October, the Trump campaign and its supporters spent tens of millions of dollars on ads attacking Vice President Kamala Harris’ past support of certain rights for transgender people — including access to gender-affirming care that is deemed medically necessary for detained immigrants and incarcerated people.
“Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you,” one such ad says.
“What he’s saying is, ‘You’re watching this TV ad. And what I need you to know is that you are not the person she cares about. She cares about this nebulous they/them pronoun,’” Marquette Journalism and Media Studies professor Patrick Johnson told WPR’s “Wisconsin Today.”
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