The 30-second spot, entitled “Republicans In Your Bathroom,” targets the GOP over its fixation on restricting trans people’s access to restrooms and locker rooms. The ad, which The Hill reports is part of a larger buy worth over $1 million per The Hill, begins with a young girl entering a bathroom and to her horror, encountering an older white-haired man sitting in the stall waiting for her. He greets her with a short hello. Immediately, the girl presses the man for answers, “What are you doing? Who are you?”

“I’m your Republican congressman. Now that we’re in charge, I’m checking to make sure that there’s no trans people in the wrong bathroom,” he says.

Her response: “Bathrooms are private. Don’t you have anything better to do?”

“I won the last election, and this is my priority,” he says, “Now let’s make sure you’re really a girl,” ending with an ominous smirk.

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    Also, how many people really cared about women’s sports in this country before this became an issue?

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      Don’t you see, republican congressmen need to care about women’s sports now, because how else will they manufacture outrage about Jack Smith watching a game?

      Senile old senator: “You know, I really like women’s basketball! I couldn’t tell you when or where a single game happened if you held my feet to the fire, but it’s a big interest of mine! It’s just my job to ask questions, you know.”

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      It literally used to be a joke among men. ‘Oh, why are you watching women’s sports, is nothing else on’ or ‘haha boobies’ (volleyball and swimming were the worst by far for this). Outside of friends and family of the competitors, former players, and a lot of lesbians there was virtually no interest in it.

      It must be a nightmare to suddenly be a forced political issue and it result in everything being worse for everyone.

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      I actually really enjoy women’s curling in the winter Olympics, although it wouldn’t matter to me if a trans woman was one of them. It was just the first curling I ever saw. I don’t even know why they divide sports that way anyway. It should all be divided by weight classes, like boxing, and sex/gender shouldn’t play a role.