Has Sigal Chattah referred to transgender people as ‘trannies’ and said there should be fewer of them?

On September 27, 2022, Nevada’s Republican nominee for attorney general, Sigal Chattah, retweeted a speech given by Italy’s new prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, to the World Congress of Families gathering in 2019. Her comment attached to the tweet read, “America needs a lot more of this 👇🏽and a lot less pronoun badges, trannies, criminals and corruption.”

In an interview with KLAS-TV on Oct. 24, 2022, when asked about her use of a word that is offensive to the transgender community and her willingness to consider “a more sensitive path,” she defended her usage of a word “used in Hollywood […] It’s part of American culture.” Chattah said if the word is offensive to a group of people, she would apologize, but that in the grand scheme of things, the change needs to come “on a much bigger scale.”