—Is the chair of the board at the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank she launched with other former Trump administration officials in 2021. The nonprofit espouses an anti-trans stance, claiming to combat what it calls “radical gender ideology” and opposing initiatives that support LGBTQ rights. The organization has campaigned against policies that support transgender rights in education. This includes efforts to restrict participation of transgender athletes in sports and push back against federal protections for transgender students under Title IX. In fact, transgender people are people, not an ideology.
—Criticized of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, stating in a Fox News op-ed that DEI measures are “not pertinent to the training of skilled workers” and that these policies “increase costs and administrative challenges across all apprenticeship programs.”
—During her tenure at WWE (1989–2009), McMahon oversaw homophobic and misogynistic content including matches that featured homophobic slurs and violent portrayals of LGBTQ characters, which perpetuated harmful stereotypes and contributed to a culture of intolerance in the wrestling community. Outsports reports that among the most egregious those examples “is a oft-forgotten match between Tyson Tomko and Steven Richards at Unforgiven 2004. Richards, dressed in drag and dubbed the ‘Mystery Woman,’ was beaten mercilessly as Tomko stripped him down to his underwear and verbally berated him with homophobic and transphobic slurs… The vetting file also highlighted the level of violence used against the LGBTQ-coded Goldust character during a ‘Backlot Brawl’ match at Wrestlemania XII in 1996. Goldust, portrayed by current AEW wrestler Dustin Rhodes, regularly used homoerotic advances to garner boos from the audience during the character’s early days. That framing led to violent responses from babyfaces that could easily be characterized under the heavily criticized gay panic defense. That match also ended with the coded character being stripped in-ring.”