<p>The pro-DeSantis super PAC Never Back Down released an ad on Wednesday hitting former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> over his past support of transgender contestants competing against women in his Miss Universe pageant.</p>
<p>Trump has vowed to “defeat the cult of gender ideology” as he pursues a second term in the White House, but he had a very different position on the issue just a decade ago when he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trumps-position-on-the-transgender-issue-has-utterly-changed-over-the-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed</a> letting a man claiming to be a woman compete in the Miss Universe pageant that he owned at the time. Referring to 23-year-old Canadian Jenna Talaackova as a “woman,” Trump said the contest should be open to men who identify as women.</p>
<p>&#8220;I talk about transgender, everyone goes crazy,&#8221; Trump says at the start of the ad, remarks that he made this year. &#8220;Who would have thought five years ago you didn&#8217;t know what the hell it was?&#8221;</p>
<p>The ad then cuts to Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro saying back in 2012, &#8220;Donald Trump made a controversial decision to allow a transgendered woman, born as a man, to compete in the Miss Universe beauty pageant.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I said, &#8216;let her run, and I think I made the right decision, I feel fine with the decision,'&#8221; Trump said during an interview at the time.</p>
<p>The ad then cuts to Talaackova talking about the medical process that he went through to transition, saying that it was &#8220;pretty intense.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It was obvious to us that she was entitled to compete,&#8221; Trump said during the interview at the time.</p>
<p>When a contestant was asked if it would be &#8220;fair&#8221; for a transgender individual to beat out a woman in the contest, the contestant, Olivia Culpo, said that she did support it.</p>
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<p>&#8220;I do think that that would be fair, but I can understand that people would be a little apprehensive to take that road because there is a tradition of natural-born women, but today where there are so many surgeries and so many people out there who have a need to change for a happier life, I do accept that because I believe it’s a free country,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Trump responded to Culpo&#8217;s answer by saying: &#8220;She gave a great answer and she really did a great job.&#8221;</p>
<p>When asked if &#8220;in the future can transgender women compete in Miss Universe,&#8221; Trump responded, &#8220;Yes,&#8221; according to a clip in the video.</p>
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