Two Ohio grandparents, Mike and Melissa H., were both lifelong Republican voters, but they recently left the GOP because its anti-transgender politics threaten the well-being of their trans grandchild. “I just felt a real departure from the Republican Party. I got some mailings from both the national Republican Party and the Ohio Republican Party, and I cut it up. I sent it back to them. I said, ‘I voted Republican most of my life, but until you change your policy and legislation on LGBTQ community, I’m not interested in supporting you,’” Mike said in a recent ad from the Human Rights Campaign.