Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete and failed California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner has been an adamant opponent of letting transgender athletes compete against people of the same sex.
Tuesday, she announced that she was launching a political action committee called “Fairness First” with a focus on keeping transgender athletes from competing against girls and women.
“Today I publicly launch Fairness First PAC to fight the radical gender ideology, put parental rights at the forefront of education, and keep boys out of women’s sports,” the Olympic gold medalist tweeted.
“We are a movement, non-partisan in nature, with the intention of empowering parental rights especially in light of radical gender ideology infiltrating our children in school — especially in sports and the classroom,” the Fairness First website reads. “We value protecting young children, and the parental rights associated with having your young child go through the indoctrinating instruction in school and unfair advantages of biological boys competing against girls in sports.”
Jenner’s PAC offered a mission statement full of right-wing buzzwords and other word salad meant to stoke fear over transgender athletes, a small percentage of Americans who are attempting to find happiness in their truth.
“Fairness First is prepared to fight on behalf of parents and their children,” the PAC’s action plan says. “Our plan is simple. We will protect our children by rejecting radical gender ideology in our schools and in youth sports, from the top of the ballot to the bottom.”
Conservatives spend a lot of time trying to define what women can and cannot do, so in that sense, this PAC is very much in line with their overall focus.
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