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Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel on Friday attacked the term \u201cbirthing person\u201d in a tirade against Democrats that she delivered at the RNC\u2019s summer meeting. <\/p>\n
She received raucous applause from the room of Republicans at the final session of the meeting in Nashville when she sharply criticized the term. The words “pregnant person” were used recently in CDC guidance<\/a> to acknowledge that not all people who give birth identify as women, and the Biden administration has referred to “pregnant people”<\/a> in the past. <\/p>\n \u201cThe Democrats cannot take away my right to call myself a mom,\u201d McDaniel yelled to the crowd. \u201cI am not a \u2018birthing person\u2019, I am a mother, and it\u2019s the most important job I will ever have.\u201d<\/p>\n Her invocation of this language is part of a larger movement by the Republican party to politicize transgender-inclusive policies. Across the country, Republican-led state legislatures have moved to ban transgender student athletes from sports<\/a> after President Joe Biden supported expanding rights for transgender people. Policies like these have become a rallying point for conservatives as 2022 approaches, and McDaniel argued that they will help secure Republican victories in elections. <\/p>\n Among other topics, she chastised Covid-related policies to switch to remote teaching early in the pandemic and mask children amid the current spread of the Delta variant. These topics preview the messaging Republicans will use as they work to win back the House and Senate in 2022, and the presidency in 2024. <\/p>\n \u201cI am so proud to be in this fight alongside every single one of you and I am so optimistic about the next election because I see it \u2014 I see the energy and passion of people across our country every day,\u201d McDaniel said. \u201cAnd I also see something else: Democrats and their radical policies have awakened a sleeping giant: the moms of America. <\/p>\n The end of her speech touted school choice and said moms won\u2019t let teachers \u201cteach children they were born racist,\u201d a reference to the opposition to critical race theory<\/a> that Republicans have made a party flashpoint going into midterm elections next year. <\/p>\n At the summer meeting, McDaniel also touted Covid policies by Republican governors Greg Abbott of Texas, Ron DeSantis of Florida and Kristi Noem of South Dakota and claimed Democrats undermined transparency in the 2020 election. \u201cWe can never let what we saw in 2020 happen ever again,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n McDaniel also said the Republican party is growing and racially diversifying, a sentiment echoed by RNC Co-Chair Tommy Hicks. He said the party is a \u201cbetter ambassador\u201d to minority voters than the Democratic party, invoking the 1860s and 1970s to make the point. <\/p>\n