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Lauren Gambino in Oxon Hill, Maryland

Anti-trans rhetoric took center stage at CPAC amid hostile Republican efforts

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, speaks at CPAC on 3 March.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, speaks at CPAC on 3 March. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

There was a joke about the suspected Chinese spy balloon’s preferred pronouns; claims that Democrats believe there are “millions” of genders and a menacing call for “transgenderism” to be “eradicated”.

From the main stage of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), far-right activists, members of Congress and the former president of the United States waged an aggressive assault on transgender rights last week, raising the issue in speeches and unrelated panel discussions, often under the guise of protecting children.

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