They’re minors and he used their pictures without their parents’ permission, seemingly calling them “boys in girls’ sports.”
Republican Ted Cruz’s desperate search for trans targets in a hateful series of anti-trans attack ads directed at his Democratic opponent Colin Allred has landed the two-term Texas senator in hot water with the parents of two cisgender girls and their high school.
The teens appear in at least two fear-mongering ads attacking both the trans community and Allred, picturing them alongside former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas and CeCé Telfer, a Jamaican-born sprinter and the first out trans woman to win an NCAA title.
Just for clarity’s sake, if you watch the video, they seem pretty clearly represented as the “girls” being invaded by the “boys” ruining their sport.
“Boys in girls’ bathrooms,” shows picture of women’s restroom, “boys in girls’ sports,” shows picture of girl athletes, one of them making a kind of “hmmm” face.
It’s pretty ugly no matter how you slice it, but the title of the article seems to be a misinterpretation of how the image was used.