Are Trans Ballot Measures Protecting Kids or Turning LGBTQ Americans into Campaign Props?

About this episode

Peter Boykin discusses the implications of trans ballot measures and their impact on LGBTQ Americans and children's rights.

Are Trans Ballot Measures Protecting Kids or Turning LGBTQ Americans into Campaign Props? Are Politicians Playing Politics with Liberty? Are transgender related ballot initiatives really about protecting girls’ sports, privacy, parental rights, and children, or are political campaigns using emotional issues to drive voter turnout? In this episode of Go Right with Peter Boykin, the Constitutionalist for Liberty, Peter responds to an LGBTQ Nation article originally published by Mother Jones and written by Madison Pauly. The article raises the question of whether anti trans ballot initiatives are being used as Republican “ballot candy.” Peter breaks down the issue from a constitutional, moderate, Go Right perspective. This is not about denying real concerns. Girls’ sports matter. Privacy matters. Parental rights matter. Children matter. Women’s spaces matter. But so does human dignity, local control, free speech, and limiting government power. This episode asks the question many Americans are thinking but few in politics want to answer: are voters being asked to solve real policy problems, or are politicians using children, women, LGBTQ Americans, and parents as campaign props…

People in this episode

Host: Peter Boykin

Topics covered

• transgender issues
• political campaigns
• LGBTQ rights
• children's rights
• girls' sports
• parental rights

Keywords

• trans ballot measures
• LGBTQ Americans
• political exploitation
• girls' sports
• parental rights
• human dignity
• free speech

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: LGBTQ Nation, Mother Jones

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