On Tuesday, Caitlyn Jenner announced the launch of her new political action committee (PAC), Fairness First, in an effort to combat what she calls “radical gender ideology”.
Today I publicly launch Fairness First PAC to fight the radical gender ideology, put parental rights at the forefront of education, and keep boys out of women’s sports. Link in bio.
— Caitlyn Jenner (@Caitlyn_Jenner) April 4, 2023
The Fairness First website states that its mission is to “empower parental rights, especially in light of radical gender ideology infiltrating our children in school — especially in sports and the classroom.” The PAC is also focused on protecting “young children, and the parental rights associated with having your young child go through the indoctrinating instruction in school and unfair advantages of biological boys competing against girls in sports.”
Jenner has recently been an outspoken critic of transgender women participating in men’s sports and has particularly criticized a school in Vermont for allowing a transgender female to compete in a girls’ basketball game. In an appearance on Fox News, Jenner argued that “the radical left and their radical gender ideology have really tried to, over the years, blur that line between men and women and affected us not only with transgender issues, but everything, and I just don’t feel like that’s a good thing. There is a difference between men and women and that is a good thing. We should honor that.”
Jenner has also highlighted a case in the state of Washington in which a transgender female finished 18th in a 5,000-meter race, while her time would have given her a 145th-place finish if she had competed in the boy’s division. Jenner argued that “we have to keep it fair,” and said that the state of Washington should make it harder for transgender athletes to compete against women.
“We have to keep it fair,” Jenner, a Fox News contributor, said on “America Reports” at the time. “This issue is not going to go away, but I really feel the state of Washington has to make it a little bit tougher. They cannot just identify [as transgender] and then compete against the women…”
“Meaning, you just identify as being trans and you can compete on the women’s team,” Jenner said. “Now, they made this rule because they thought it was more consistent with the Washington State’s nondiscrimination laws that they had out there. I have been from the beginning…out for that, like that fourth place woman who is trying to make it to the state championships. But there’s a trans athlete in there in the top three that doesn’t allow her to be able to go do that, fulfill her dreams, maybe get a scholarship down the line. We have to keep it fair.”
Fairness First’s action plan states that the group is “prepared to fight on behalf of parents and their children” and plans to “protect our children by rejecting radical gender ideology in our schools and in youth sports, from the top of the ballot to the bottom.”
