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 As the nation is reeling from the tragic shooting in a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub, Herschel Walker has released a campaign ad targeting transgender athletes.

LGBTQ rights groups called on Senate candidate Herschel Walker to stop running a campaign ad in Georgia’s Senate runoff that refers to transgender women and girls as “biological males” and calls for them to be banned from competing in sports.

The release of Walker’s ad comes just two days after a deadly shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs that killed people  and injured at least 25 others.

According to Brooke Migdon at THE HILL

In Walker's ad, he appears alongside former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines,  an outspoken advocate for policies and legislation to keep transgender women and girls out of female sports. At this year’s NCAA championships, Gaines tied with former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas for fifth place in the women’s 200-meter freestyle finals.

Gaines said “I worked so hard — 4 a.m. practices to be the best — but my senior year I was forced to compete against a biological male." Gaines came in 2nd in that competition. “That’s unfair and wrong,” Walker then says directly to the camera.

Sarah Kate Ellis, the president and chief executive of the LGBTQ media advocacy organization GLAAD, said Monday: "Airing this kind of rubbish under the guise of a political campaign was already deplorable enough—but in the wake of Saturday night’s massacre at Club Q, it’s simply unconscionable."

“There’s an undeniable nexus between this kind of baseless and hateful rhetoric and the violence leveled against our community this weekend in Colorado Springs and the violence being perpetrated against marginalized communities all across this country, Shame on Herschel Walker — and shame on every politician using LGBTQ lives as political props.” Nadine Bridges, executive director of the nonprofit One Colorado, said Monday in a statement.

Walker either has horrible timing or he's just a horrible person. What is the purpose of airing this anti-LGBTQ ad now? Is it to appeal to the Republican base that are supporting him? Georgia and the nation doesn't need a lecture from Herschel Walker. Walker has shown everyone who he really is and his hateful rhetoric has no place in our society. Let's send him packing!