Activists
will run a
transgender rights ad on Fox
News during the GOP convention
A
transgender rights group has landed a commercial spot that
will ensure its message is preaching to anything but the choir.
Fox
News viewers tuning into presumptive GOP **minee Donald Trump's (also presumptive) acceptance speech at the party
convention next week
will be treated to the first-person testimony of a
transgender woman talking about how proposed bathroom laws could impact her life.
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The commercial, which
will run next Friday
during the last leg of the convention, comes amid fierce debate over so-called bathroom bills in **rth Carolina and several other states that would bar
transgender people from using the public restrooms that correspond with their gender identity. Most of the support for the efforts comes from within the Republican Party.*
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