At its height, on July 21, when the party is scheduled to officially nominate its presidential candidate, the conservative channel Fox News will air an ad produced by a collection of LGBT organizations, aimed at educating the public on the dangers transgender people may face when forced to use the wrong bathroom.
“I’m a transgender woman”, Alaina Kupec says in a voiceover. “Most people, when they stop and think about it, they realize that when businesses can legally force me to use the men’s room, it puts me at risk for harassment and violence”.
The 60-second ad will air on Fox News during Trump’s speech, The New York Times reported.
This groundbreaking new ad depicts the challenges faced by transgender people in accessing public restrooms-and highlights the lack of state and federal nondiscrimination protections for transgender people.
The group sponsoring the commercial, Fairness USA, says they chose Fox and the Republican convention because they see it as a chance to reach the most people who disagree with their stance.
Although Trump appears to have embraced North Carolina Gov.
The bathroom statistics were released Monday as preliminary findings of the 2015 US Transgender Survey.
Shortly following the filing of the suits, a joint letter from the Departments of Justice and Education was issued to all public school districts ordering boys who identify as girls and vice versa be allowed to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice. “Eight percent have had medical problems like urinary or kidney infections from avoiding the restroom”.
“It’s basically the Willy Sutton rule – Willy Sutton was the bank robber who was asked, ‘Why do you rob banks?’ And he said, ‘Because that’s where the money is, ‘” said Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, which is part of the coalition.
The ad was created by the Movement Advancement Project, Freedom For All Americans, and Equality Ohio.
According to transgender “rights” activists, ” the catalyst for producing the advertisement are the “anti-transgender extremists”, which, according to a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, “continue to use scare tactics and spread lies” about those with gender dysphoria.