Political Stances on LGBTQ Equality Rights

“The last thing the State Department should be doing is wasting its time and your tax dollars pushing far-left gender ideology…There are only two genders passports issued by the United States government should recognize that simple fact. I am proud to introduce this bill to restore some sanity in our federal bureaucracy.”

“They can find a place for trans kids to play sports, but biological boys should not be playing in girls sports. My daughter ran track in high school. I dont know how I would even have that conversation with her. How do we tell our girls that its OK to have a biological boy in their locker room? Its not. In no scenario … We have to remember that strong girls become strong women. Strong women become strong leaders. That doesnt happen by putting biological boys in womens sports. Youve got women who have worked so hard all their life to really get to points in high school and college where they want to, and to have a biological man, whos physiologically different, athletically, go and take that away from those women, no, were not gonna erase the women like that. You cant do that. You can find other ways of dealing with this, but it doesnt have to be on the backs of our girls, who were trying to make strong. Its the wrong thing to do, and Ill always fight against that.”

“We never did this through all of human history until like, what, two weeks ago? Now this is something, they’re having third-graders declare pronouns? We’re not doing the ‘pronoun Olympics’ in Florida.”

“I don’t have a negative view of same-sex couples, but I do have a negative view of a tyranny of the minority. So I think that in the name of protecting against the tyranny of the majority, and there are times in this country’s history where we have had a tyranny of the majority. We have now in the name of protecting against tyranny of the majority created a new tyranny of the minority. And I think that that’s wrong. I don’t think that somebody who’s religious should be forced to officiate a wedding that they disagree with. I don’t think somebody who is a woman who’s worked really hard for her achievements should be forced to compete against a biological man in a swim competition. I don’t think that somebody who’s a woman that respects her bodily autonomy and dignity should be forced to change clothes in a locker room with a man. That’s not freedom. That’s oppression.”