FIRST ON FOX: 得克萨斯州民主党顶级候选人詹姆斯·塔拉利科（James Talarico）因称对女运动员中生物男性的担忧是“极右翼阴谋论”而面临批评。
塔拉利科是得克萨斯州众议院议员，自登上全国舞台以来，其饱受争议的进步言论和政策立场历史已使他面临强烈批评。
此次最新争议源于一段2021年他接受福克斯奥斯汀7台采访的视频被挖出。当时他被问及得克萨斯州民主党人逃离该州以阻挠特别立法会议时，提到了“跨性别儿童参与体育”问题。在采访中，他指责共和党州长格雷格·雅培（Greg Abbott）在特别会议中充斥着“关于跨性别儿童在运动队制造问题的极右翼阴谋论，而我们知道这种情况在得克萨斯州根本不存在”。
他还抨击雅培将批判性种族理论纳入立法议程，称“我们知道得克萨斯州并未教授该理论”。
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得克萨斯州参议院候选人詹姆斯·塔拉利科于2026年3月2日在休斯顿的竞选集会上发言。（Danielle Villasana/Getty Images）
“如果我们专注于实际问题，那还好，但我们没有。”塔拉利科表示。
共和党全国委员会发言人扎克·克拉夫特（Zach Kraft）猛烈抨击塔拉利科的言论，称：“詹姆斯·塔拉利科称父母不想让他谈论孩子接受变性手术，或称‘小白男孩是国内恐怖威胁’，这是在把父母称为‘阴谋论者’。”
克拉夫特告诉福克斯新闻数字版：“詹姆斯·塔拉利科再次证明，他是个怪人，在得克萨斯州这样的红州根本没有获胜的可能。”
2021年，得克萨斯州通过了一项禁止生物男性参加K-12（幼儿园至高中）女生体育比赛的法案，该法案由雅培签署成为法律。两年后，得克萨斯州扩大了该政策，通过《拯救女子体育法案》，禁止生物男性参加大学级别的女子体育比赛。
塔拉利科对这两项K-12和大学体育相关法案均投了反对票。他还投票反对一项禁止儿童变性手术的法案，声称“性别确认护理不是虐待儿童”。
2021年在得克萨斯州众议院辩论该法案时，他发表了最具争议的言论之一，称“上帝既是男性也是女性，以及两者之间的一切。上帝是非二元性别的。”
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塔拉利科最近还因2012年给六年级学生布置“奥巴马回忆录”作业而受到批评。（John Moore/Getty Images；Jeff Swensen/Getty Images）
塔拉利科还因在播客中发表“诡异”言论称“爱变性儿童”而遭到嘲笑。
在2023年的一期《超级花期播客》中，主持人坎迪斯·金（Candice King）问他：“除了家人和朋友，你还爱什么？”
塔拉利科回答：“我想说，因为这一直萦绕在我心头，是昨天出现在州议会大厦为自己的人性发声的变性儿童。”他补充道：“他们本不必这样做，但看到这一幕很受鼓舞。”
蒙大拿州共和党参议员蒂姆·希伊（Tim Sheehy）抨击他是“诡异的傻瓜”。
女子体育活动家莱利·盖恩斯（Riley Gaines）写道：“詹姆斯·塔拉利科如此‘爱’变性儿童，以至于他主张他们切除健康、功能正常的身体部位。这真是爱的‘表现’。”
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塔拉利科将面临得克萨斯州总检察长肯·帕克斯顿（Ken Paxton）或共和党参议员约翰·科宁（John Cornyn）的对决，两人正在进行一场尤为激烈的初选决胜选举。（Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images；Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images）
塔拉利科还倡导多元化、公平与包容，2021年共同起草法案在得克萨斯州学校教授多元化、公平与包容（DEI）相关内容。在推广该法案时，他称“极端化白人男性是最大的国内恐怖威胁”。
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“若非上帝垂怜，我亦如此。”他在推文中写道，“作为一名白人男性，我也容易受到同样的极端化影响。幸运的是，我从小就接触到多元化，并被明确教授平等、包容和正义的价值观。但并非每个年轻白人男孩都如此幸运。”
得克萨斯州一项反多元化、公平与包容法案生效当天，塔拉利科发推文称：“得克萨斯州教师不能谈论种族问题”，称这是“我们州历史上的黑暗一天”。
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彼得·皮内多（Peter Pinedo）是福克斯新闻数字版的政治记者。
FIRST ON FOX: Top Democratic candidate James Talarico, who is running for U.S. Senate in Texas, is facing criticism for suggesting concerns about biological males in girls’ sports are a “far-right conspiracy.”
Since rising to the national stage, Talarico, a member of the Texas House of Representatives, has faced intense criticism for his history of highly controversial, progressive statements and policy positions.
Now, the latest Talarico controversy stems from an unearthed 2021 interview with Fox 7 Austin in which he referenced “trans children” in sports. Talarico was being interviewed about Democrats fleeing the state to block a special legislative session. During the interview, he accused Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of filling the special session with “far-right conspiracy theories about trans children causing problems on sports teams, which we know does not occur in the state of Texas.”
He also knocked Abbott for including critical race theory in the legislative agenda, which he said, “We know is not being taught in the state of Texas.”
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Texas Senate candidate James Talarico speaks at a campaign rally on March 2, 2026, in Houston.(Danielle Villasana/Getty Images)
“If we were focused on actual issues, that would be one thing, but we’re not,” said Talarico.
Zach Kraft, a spokesperson for the Republican National Committee, ripped into Talarico over the statement, saying,”James Talarico calls parents ‘conspiracy theorists’ for not wanting him to talk to kids about getting a sex change or how ‘little White boys’ are domestic terror threats.”
Kraft told Fox News Digital that”once again, James Talarico is proving that he is a creep who has zero chance of winning in a red state like Texas.”
In 2021, Texas passed a bill banning biological males from competing in K-12 girls’ sports. The bill was signed into law by Abbott. Two years later, Texas expanded the policy, passing the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” which banned biological men from competing in women’s sports at the collegiate level.
Talarico voted against both the K-12 and collegiate sports bills. He also voted against a bill to ban sex change surgeries for children, asserting that “gender-affirming care is not child abuse.”
While debating the bill on the Texas House floor in 2021, he made one of his most controversial comments, asserting that “God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non-binary.”
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Talarico also recently took heat for giving his sixth-grade students an “Obama memoir” assignment in 2012.(John Moore/Getty Images; Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
Talarico was also recently mocked for a “creepy” comment he made on a podcast about loving transgender children.
During a 2023 episode of “A Superbloom Podcast,” Talarico was asked by host Candice King, “What is something that you love, other than family and friends?”
Talarico responded, “I love, I’m just saying this because it’s on my mind, the trans children who showed up yesterday at the state Capitol to advocate for their humanity.” He added that “they shouldn’t have to, but it was an inspiration to watch.”
Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., ripped into Talarico, calling him a “creepy goofball.”
Women’s sports activist Riley Gaines wrote, “James Talarico loves ‘trans kids’ so much that he advocates for them to cut off healthy, functioning body parts. Quite the display of love.”
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Talarico will face off against either Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton or Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who are locked in a particularly bitter primary runoff race.(Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Talarico has also been an advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion, co-authoring legislation in 2021 to teach DEI in Texas schools. In promoting the bill, Talarico argued that “radicalized White men are the greatest domestic terror threat.”
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“There but for the grace of God go I,” he wrote in a tweet, continuing, “As a white man, I’m susceptible to the same radicalization. Thankfully, I was exposed to diversity at a young age and explicitly taught the values of equality, inclusion, and justice. But not every young white boy is so lucky.”
The day a Texas anti-DEI bill took effect, Talarico tweeted, “Texas teachers can’t talk about race,” calling it “a dark day in our state’s history.”
Talarico’s campaign declined to comment.
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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