5 notable provisions in the 2024 Republican Party Platform
2. Vows to fight against LGBT ideology, removes any mention of same-sex marriage
The platform also includes a brief paragraph insisting that “Republicans Will End Left-wing Gender Insanity.” It specifically states: “We will keep men out of women’s sports, ban Taxpayer funding for sex change surgeries, and stop Taxpayer-funded Schools from promoting gender transition, reverse Biden’s radical rewrite of Title IX Education Regulations, and restore protections for women and girls.”
The party’s commitment to pushing back against LGBT ideology reflects the fact that concerns about men who identify as female competing in women’s sports and the long-term impact of body-deforming sex-change procedures that are being performed on children and youth, from surgeries to cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers.
Several states have passed laws requiring athletes to compete on sports teams that correspond with their biological sex instead of their self-declared gender identity, in addition to prohibitions on the performance of gender transition procedures on minors.
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The 2024 platform, in contrast to its predecessor, does not include any mention of the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decisionObergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
While the 2016 platform featured a defense of “traditional marriage and family, based on marriage between one man and one woman” as “the foundation for a free society” and expressed opposition to Obergefell, which it described as a decision that “robbed 320 million Americans of their legitimate constitutional authority to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman,” the 2024 platform does not contain such language.
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: [email protected]
