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Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton is facing intense backlash after controversial comments about transgender athletes in girls' sports. Speaking to the Toledo Blade, Acton said she does not support "boys playing in girls' sports" and stated that Ohio law on the issue is settled and would be upheld if she becomes governor. The remarks have sparked criticism from members of the LGBTQ+ community, with some supporters demanding clarification and questioning whether they can continue backing her campaign. The controversy has created growing divisions within Ohio Democrats ahead of the governor's race.

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00:02Thank you. Your campaign is taking some heat from progressives over comments that boys don't belong in girls sports. What
00:10would you say to progressive voters who are concerned about those comments?
00:13Well, first of all, you know, we're living in a time in a political climate where we're being purposely, purposely
00:20pitted against one another. Ohioans, I can tell you, are exhausted of it, as am I.
00:25We know that this is already the existing law in Ohio, and that's why I'm staying laser focused on what
00:32I'm hearing from Ohioans.
00:33And they want to see us fighting against these billionaires and Elon Musk and the rest of it who are
00:39coming with policies from out of state that no Ohioans care about.
00:43They want to see us fighting to make this state affordable again, to lower costs, to end the cost of
00:49corruption in what is the most corrupt statehouse in this country.
00:52And they want to see us working to pull us together again.
00:56I can promise you that I'm going to fight for our state. I'll be fighting for our LGBT, yeah, our
01:03entire community.
01:04I'm sorry, stuttering there. And I'm going to be fighting to make sure that everyone, everyone feels that they belong
01:12in the state of Ohio.
01:14I'm absolutely a union family myself. I'm going to be the most pro-union, pro-labor governor there ever has
01:23been.
01:24My husband is a 43-year public school, elementary school teacher and a coach.
01:29Our kids are union members, my family. And so I understand what it's like when people are messing around with
01:35our pensions and kicking teachers off their own pension board.
01:39And we know that's going to affect every other union as well. I will be so strong on collective bargaining
01:45and prevailing wage.
01:47We will be doing project labor agreements when I'm governor on every project.
01:52And I, quite frankly, think you should be able to say the word union, which my opponent won't.
01:57And you can trust that I'm going to make sure that the hard work you've done your entire lives, it
02:04will be protected and will pay off.
02:08Thank you. Your campaign has taken some heat from progressives over comments that boys don't belong in girls' sports.
02:15What would you say to progressive voters who are concerned about those comments?
02:19Well, first of all, you know, we're living in a time in a political climate where we're being purposely, purposely
02:26pitted against one another.
02:27Ohioans, I can tell you, are exhausted of it, as am I.
02:31We know that this is already the existing law in Ohio, and that's why I'm staying laser focused on what
02:38I'm hearing from Ohioans.
02:39And they want to see us fighting against these billionaires and Elon Musk and the rest of it who are
02:45coming with policies from out of state that no Ohioans care about.
02:49They want to see us fighting to make this state affordable again, to lower costs, to end the costs of
02:55corruption in what is the most corrupt statehouse in this country.
02:58And they want to see us working to pull us together again.
03:02I can promise you that I'm going to fight for our state.
03:05I'll be fighting for our LGBT, yeah, our entire community.
03:10I'm sorry, stuttering there.
03:12And I'm going to be fighting to make sure that everyone, everyone feels that they belong in the state of
03:19Ohio.
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