The trans issue hasn’t gone away, some Dems just realized it’s a political loser

While President Donald Trump’s administration has done a lot to combat corporate wokeness, it appears there may still be some holdouts.

Vice President JD Vance joined the Outkick crew to discuss the possibility that the athletics company Nike was helping to fund a study on transgender athletes. The company denied the allegations in a statement, claiming the study “was never initialized” and “is not moving forward,” despite both Dr. Kathryn Ackerman, the study’s head researcher, and Joanna Harper, a secondary researcher, both claiming the company was funding the study.

Vance joined “Clay & Buck” to comment on the surrounding controversy:

“I think that so many of these companies, Nike or otherwise, got caught up in this cultural zeitgeist of 2020, 2021. Maybe they just thought the progressives were going to win, so they decided to fund this stuff to the hilt, not realizing that the American people would have a rebellion against the craziness,” Vance said. “I think that rebellion on the trans issue, in particular … giving hormonal therapies to 12-year-old kids, causing irreversible damage to their bodies, forcing young girls to compete against boys in sports, sometimes causing serious injury in the process [makes] this issue such a bad loser among the American people that even some of the true believers have dropped it as a political issue.”

“I definitely think it’s a winning political issue for the Republican Party because it’s just basic common sense,” the vice president continued. “People don’t want women competing against grown men in sports, especially in some of these contact sports where women could get injured.”

Vance doesn’t just feel this way because it’s politically convenient or a party talking point. For him, it’s personal.

“I’m the father of a three-year-old daughter. I’d like her to play sports. I think it teaches valuable life lessons, but I don’t want her competing against grown men when she does it… I think it’s the basic masculine instinct to protect young women,” he said.

But just because left-leaning corporations are backing away from the issue doesn’t mean conservatives should become complacent, the vice president warned.

“It’s our job to remind the American people [that] this is what they’ve tried to do. This is what they’re promising to do. The trans issue hasn’t gone away; you’ve just had some Democrats who are smart enough to recognize it’s a political loser.”

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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to BizPac Review.

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