Women voters pushed toward Trump over rising trend of transgender athletes in girls’ sports

Transgender athletes’ participation in women’s sports has emerged as a sleeper issue that is poised to attract elusive female suburban voters to former President Donald Trump and other Republican candidates on the ballot.

Some see it as an outlier, but the matter is increasingly drawing the attention of voters as more biological males who identify as women join the rosters of female teams and compete — and win — against girls and women at the middle school, high school and collegiate levels.

“I’m a perfect case in point,” said Kim Jones, a co-founder of the Independent Council on Women’s Sports.