He’s unpopular, his war is going badly and the US economy is strained. But on the campaign trail, Donald Trump says he has found an issue to help Republicans salvage their midterm election hopes: the transgender rights row.
Only a tiny fraction of Americans are transgender.
But controversy over the minority’s rights, especially the presence of a handful of transgender athletes in women’s sports, has proved political dynamite in Trump’s hands before — and, he says, will again.
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Denouncing transgender athletes is “one of our great soundbites of all time,” he recently told a rally.
“I like to wait about a week before the
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