{"id":506123,"date":"2021-02-05T22:07:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T22:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/tulsi-gabbard\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T09:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T14:46:26","slug":"tulsi-gabbard","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/tulsi-gabbard\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulsi Gabbard"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014Introduced<\/a> bill that ties Title IX protections for female athletes to “biological sex.” The text of the bill calls for Title IX compliance to be “determined on the basis of biological sex as determined at birth by a physician.” The bill would deny federal funding<\/a> to schools that \u201cpermit a person whose biological sex at birth is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Featured<\/a> speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)<\/p>\n

\u2014Endorsed<\/a> Florida’s House Bill 1557, the “Don’t Say Gay\/LGBTQ” bill<\/p>\n

\u2014at CPAC in 2023 she baselessly<\/a> claimed that the LGBTQ community was trying to gain acceptance for pedophiles by labeling them \u201cminor-attracted persons\u201d and allowing them to teach in schools. There is no evidence for this. She also claimed that the Biden administration cannot recognize the \u201cobjective truth\u201d of womanhood. In fact, trans women exist and deserve recognition and respect.<\/p>\n

\u2014at CPAC<\/a> in 2024 Gabbard was a featured speaker alongside anti-LGBTQ politicians Viktor Orb\u00e1n<\/a>, prime minister of Hungary, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014In 2013, she signed<\/a> an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to recognize a constitutional right to same-sex marriage<\/p>\n

\u2014Became<\/a> a member of the House LGBT Equality Caucus and consistently voted in favor of LGBTQ rights legislation<\/p>\n

\u2014Apologized for past anti-LGBTQ views<\/a> before running for president<\/p>\n

\u2014Appeared with her father in an ad opposing same-sex marriage. She criticized<\/a>\u00a0\u201chomosexual activists\u201d who sought to \u201cforce their values down the throats of the children in our schools.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":435,"featured_media":923483,"template":"","categories":[138754],"tags":[],"region":[138565],"hashtag":[138636,138632],"class_list":{"0":"post-506123","1":"gap","2":"type-gap","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"category-gaps","7":"region-national","8":"hashtag-anti-transgender","9":"hashtag-politics"},"aioseo_notices":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t