Equality Florida's Response to AG Uthmeier Press Conference on Transgender Athletes
Media Statement
Orlando, FL — This morning, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier held an unexpected press conference in Orlando regarding transgender athletes and women’s sports. Equality Florida issued the following statement in response:
“Attorney General Uthmeier is pulling straight from the DeSantis playbook: When you’re in trouble, blame trans people. Uthmeier is scapegoating trans people as a strategy to deflect and distract from the intense public scrutiny over the $450 million in corrupt no-bid contracts handed to GOP donors for the creation of the Everglades detention camp, his unprecedented contempt of court charges, and his alleged role in laundering $10 million in public Medicaid settlement money through Hope Florida to illegally fund political campaigns.”
“Uthmeier’s sudden pivot to women’s sports and attacking trans people is predictable, it’s tired, but it’s not governing. This is political theater designed to demonize, deflect, and distract Floridians away from the stories state leaders don’t want to talk about.”