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Austin Horn and Tessa Duvall

Rhetoric against transgender people plays repeated role in GOP speeches at Kentucky political gathering

FANCY FARM, Ky. — Republicans went hard on a controversial, hot-button topic in appearances at the Fancy Farm picnic on Saturday: transgender people in sports.

Democrats were none too pleased.

Kelley Paul, who spoke in place of her husband GOP Sen. Rand Paul, spent much of her speech railing against transgender women’s participation in women’s sports and what she framed as progressives’ lax gender ideology.

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