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克里斯蒂娜·博安南2024年以不足800票的差距输给在任议员玛丽安妮特·米勒-米克斯，目前正寻求再次对决
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民主党众议院候选人因跨性别体育法案称艾奥瓦州为“穷乡僻壤”
克里斯蒂娜·博安南2021年曾警告称，如果议员们禁止跨性别运动员参加女子体育赛事，艾奥瓦州将沦为“穷乡僻壤”。艾奥瓦州于2022年通过了该禁令。（图片来源：YouTube/艾奥瓦市市政府 – 2021年4月2日）
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据福克斯新闻数字频道获取的未公开录像显示，一名有望拿下美国竞争最激烈的众议院席位之一的民主党人，因共和党试图禁止跨性别运动员参加女子体育赛事，而将自己的州称为“穷乡僻壤”。
众议院候选人克里斯蒂娜·博安南是在2021年的一次立法论坛上发表上述言论的，当时她正在反对一项共和党提案，该提案禁止生理男性参加女子运动队。
博安南此次表态可能会为共和党提供新的攻击弹药，而这位重复参选的候选人正寻求第三次对阵艾奥瓦州共和党众议员玛丽安妮特·米勒-米克斯。该摇摆选区在2024年大选中被唐纳德·特朗普总统以超过8个百分点的优势拿下。
“他们提出这些法案、发表这些言论，只是为了制造噱头，”曾在艾奥瓦州议会任职的博安南在谈及共和党同僚时说道，“我认为即便如此，这也会对民众造成极大伤害，还会向外界传递一个非常糟糕的信号，让本州看起来像个穷乡僻壤。”
艾奥瓦州第一国会选区候选人克里斯蒂娜·博安南于2025年7月30日在艾奥瓦州华盛顿市参观华盛顿县医院及诊所后举行新闻发布会。（朱莉娅·汉森/艾奥瓦城新闻报 摄）
福克斯新闻实力排名：民主党领跑众议院席位，但重划选区让共和党仍有胜算
在共和党州长金·雷诺兹执政期间，艾奥瓦州于2022年通过了跨性别运动员禁令。博安南曾投票反对该法案。
此番言论是博安南抨击艾奥瓦州拒绝左翼政策的最新一例。
博安南2021年还曾表示，如果议员们通过一项禁止公立学校和高校开展多元化、公平性与包容性（DEI）培训的法案，艾奥瓦州将被视为“落后”。雷诺兹于同年签署了该法案。
“我认为这会向外界传递一个关于艾奥瓦州的非常糟糕的信号，让这里看起来像是……一个落后的州，不明白系统性种族主义这类问题的存在，”这位民主党候选人2021年在“穹顶之下”播客中说道。
福克斯新闻数字频道此前曾报道，博安南曾担任艾奥瓦大学法学院多元化、公平性与包容性委员会主席，期间曾敦促学生支持“黑人的命也是命”运动。在该职位上，她曾致信学生，鼓励他们向多个激进组织捐款，其中一些组织支持削减警察经费。
博安南2024年以不足800票的差距输给米勒-米克斯，这是全国范围内票数最接近的众议院选举。她还曾在2022年参选该席位，最终失利。
2026年1月13日，反对跨性别运动员参加女子体育赛事的抗议者聚集在华盛顿特区最高法院外，当时法院正在审理两起涉及跨性别女孩参加女子体育赛事的案件。（希瑟·迪尔/盖蒂图片社 摄）
战场民主党人在左翼反弹后就转化治疗疗法立场反转
无党派的库克政治报告称，此次重赛是一场“势均力敌的较量”。
全国共和党国会委员会（NRCC）正积极协助米勒-米克斯连任第三届众议院议员，该委员会在给福克斯新闻数字频道的一份声明中尖锐批评了博安南的言论。
“自由派的克里斯蒂娜·博安南不仅投票反对保护女子体育，还嘲笑为爱华州女性和女孩挺身而出的艾奥瓦民众，”全国共和党国会委员会发言人艾米丽·塔特尔说道。
“博安南已经明确表示，她站在‘他们/她们’群体一边，而非艾奥瓦州的家庭民众，”塔特尔继续说道，引用了特朗普针对前副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯的标志性攻击话术。
福克斯新闻数字频道已联系博安南征求评论。
博安南此番表态之际，跨性别议题持续在民主党内部引发分裂，而民调显示，公众普遍支持将女子体育赛事限定于生理女性参与。
2025年发布的《纽约时报》/益普索民调显示，近八成美国人反对生理男性参加女子体育赛事。调查显示，约70%的民主党人或倾向民主党的受访者持相同立场。
米勒-米克斯对最高法院6月份维持州级禁止生理男性参加女子运动队禁令的裁决表示欢迎。
艾奥瓦州共和党众议员玛丽安妮特·米勒-米克斯于2025年12月16日在国会游客中心参加众议院共和党会议后的新闻发布会。（CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via 盖蒂图片社 摄）
“今日最高法院的裁决对女子体育而言是一场胜利，”这位艾奥瓦州议员在裁决发布后的声明中说道，“我过去一直在并将继续努力确保每位女运动员都能获得公平竞争的机会。”
相比之下，博安南似乎并未公开评论该裁决。
福克斯新闻数字频道的伊莱恩·马伦为本报道贡献了内容。
WATCH: Battleground Democrat called Iowa a ‘backwater’ over transgender athletes ban
July 29, 2026 8:00am EDT / Fox News
Christina Bohannan lost to incumbent Rep Mariannette Miller-Meeks by fewer than 800 votes in 2024 and is seeking a rematch
By Adam Pack, Fox News
Democrat House hopeful called Iowa a ‘backwater’ over trans sports bill
Christina Bohannan warned in 2021 that Iowa would become a “backwater” if lawmakers barred transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports. Iowa enacted the ban in 2022. (Credit: YouTube/City of Iowa City – April 2, 2021)
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A Democrat hoping to flip one of the country’s most competitive House seats called her state a “backwater” over Republican efforts to bar transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports, according to unearthed footage obtained by Fox News Digital.
House candidate Christina Bohannan made the comments during a 2021 legislative forum while opposing a GOP proposal barring biological males from competing on female sports teams.
Bohannan’s comments could provide fresh ammunition for Republicans as the repeat candidate seeks a third bid against Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, in a swing district that President Donald Trump carried by more than eight points in 2024.
“They’re introducing these bills and making these comments to try to make a point,” Bohannan, who previously served in the Iowa state legislature, said, referring to her GOP colleagues. “And I think even that is really damaging to people and sends a very bad message about our state that’s going to make the state look like a backwater.”
Christina Bohannan, candidate for Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, holds a press conference after a visit to the Washington County Hospitals & Clinics on July 30, 2025, in Washington, Iowa.(Julia Hansen/Iowa City Press-Citizen)
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Iowa, under Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds, enacted a transgender athletes ban in 2022. Bohannan voted against the measure.
The comments are the latest instance of Bohannan torching Iowa for rejecting left-wing policies.
Bohannan also said in 2021 the Hawkeye State would be seen as “backwards” if lawmakers approved a bill prohibiting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) training at public schools and universities. Reynolds signed the legislation later that year.
“I think that it’s going to send a very bad message about Iowa and that it is going to seem like…this backwards state that doesn’t understand there are things like systemic racism,” the Democrat hopeful said on the “Under the Dome” podcast in 2021.
Bohannan notably served as chairwoman of the University of Iowa College of Law’s DEI committee, where she urged students to support the Black Lives Matter movement, Fox News Digital previously reported. In that role, she sent students a letter encouraging them to financially contribute to several activist funds, some of which supported defunding police.
Bohannan lost to Miller-Meeks by fewer than 800 votes in 2024, making it the closest House race in the nation. She also launched a failed run for the seat in 2022.
Protesters against transgender athletes competing in women’s sports gathered outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 13, 2026, as two cases about transgender girls joining girls’ and women’s sports teams were heard inside the court.(Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
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The nonpartisan Cook Political Report says the rematch contest is a “toss-up.”
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), which is aggressively working to re-elect Miller-Meeks to a third House term, sharply criticized Bohannan’s remarks in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“Liberal Christina Bohannan didn’t just vote against protecting girls’ sports, she mocked Iowans for standing up for women and girls,” NRCC spokeswoman Emily Tuttle said.
“Bohannan has made it clear she’s for they/them, not Iowa families,” Tuttle continued, invoking Trump’s signature attack line against former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Fox News Digital reached out to Bohannan for comment.
Bohannan’s remarks come as transgender issues continue to split Democrats, while public polling has shown broad support for limiting girls’ and women’s sports to biological females.
A New York Times/Ipsos poll released in 2025 found that nearly eight in 10 Americans opposed biological males participating in women’s sports. Roughly 70% of Democrats or Democrat-leaning respondents held the same position, according to the survey.
Miller-Meeks cheered the Supreme Court in June upholding state-level bans on biological males participating on female sports teams.
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, attends a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on Dec. 16, 2025.(CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
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“Today’s Supreme Court decision is a win for girls’ sports,” the Iowa lawmaker said in a statement following the ruling. “I have and will continue to fight to ensure every female athlete has a fair chance.”
Bohannan, by contrast, did not appear to publicly comment on the ruling.
Fox News Digital’s Elaine Mallon contributed to this report.
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