With just one day until the 2024 presidential election, another Democrat is flip-flopping on support for trans-identifying men in women’s sports.
In a new ad, Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey accuses Republican opponent Dave McCormick of lying about Casey’s well-documented record on LGBTQ issues.
“Dave McCormick and his billionaire backers think they can fool you about anything,” the ad says. “The truth? Bob Casey’s not for men and girls’ sports.”
But as The Daily Wire reported, Casey has a long history of fighting for men in women’s sports. He co-sponsored the Equality Act, legislation that would have allowed men who identify as women into female locker rooms, prisons, shelters, and more. He has expressed support for child gender transitions and called Republicans “extreme” for objecting to men in women’s spaces.
Casey is one of several Democrats who have reversed their position on transgender issues during this election cycle as more and more Americans voice their displeasure with the increasingly radical LGBTQ policies pushed by leftist activists. In Texas and Alaska, Colin Allred and Mary Peltola both are backing away from their former votes and stances on the topic.
Casey, who is supported by the far-left Human Rights Campaign and GLAAD, did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Daily Wire.
A final Emerson College Polling/The Hill survey released Monday found Casey and McCormick tied ahead of election day: each candidate has 47% of the vote, the poll found, with 6% of voters undecided.
When the NCAA announced it was pulling its 2016-17 neutral-site games from North Carolina over legislation banning trans-identifying males from women’s bathrooms and locker rooms, Casey actually invited the NCAA to Pennsylvania, writing in a September 2016 letter to the president of the NCAA: “Pennsylvania is proud of its diversity across the Commonwealth.”
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“We strive to achieve equality for the people who both reside and visit the Commonwealth regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation or sexual identification,” he wrote.
“I certainly wish it was a letter nobody had to write,” Casey told Philadelphia Gay News during this same time period. “If the state government in North Carolina had done the right thing, nobody would have to write a letter suggesting alternate locations.”
He also described Pennsylvania as “more tolerant and more accepting than what the state government in North Carolina displayed.”
Casey has also called Republicans “extreme” for focusing on males in women’s spaces.
“No one should fear for their safety because of the gender with which they identify,” he tweeted in August 2020, referring to an article on the beating of a trans-identifying man. “Yet some extreme Republican politicians care more about what bathrooms transgender people use, or what sports team they play on, than they do about violence against transgender women of color.”
The Daily Caller News Foundation first reported a June 2023 letter from Casey expressing support for “young adult” transgender transition attempts, in which he argued that concerns about males in women’s sports were based on “overgeneralized” and “unfounded assumptions.”
“The decision to transition is a profoundly significant and challenging one that young adults make after careful consideration,” Casey wrote, according to the Daily Caller. “This is a conclusion that young adults reach after extensive consultation with their medical providers and loved ones, and with the knowledge of the tremendous social obstacles that unfortunately lie ahead.”
