Dredging up a months-old harassment campaign rooted in transphobia sure is one way to end the election cycle.

Somehow Donald Trump’s campaign has decided that the best way to close out a contentious presidential race is by rehashing baseless accusations about Olympic gold medalist boxer Imane Khelif’s “biological sex.”

On November 2, the Trump campaign released a minute-long ad entitled “We Fight,” in which a gravelly-voiced narrator claims that, four years ago, Americans took a wrong turn by electing Democratic President Joe Biden. As evidence of this so-called downfall, the ad features a clip of Khelif at this year’s Olympic Games as the narrator intones, “Men could beat up women and win medals.” The ad also includes anti-immigrant dog whistles.’

If you somehow missed the transphobic nonsense that tainted the Paris Olympics, a quick recap: After Italian boxer Angela Carini forfeited her match against Khelif, a loud subset of right-wing trolls and anti-trans activists – including J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk – baselessly and falsely claimed that Khelif was secretly transgender. In August, Khelif filed a harassment claim in France in which she named Musk, Rowling, and other public figures as part of a cyberbullying campaign against her.

I’m not saying that there aren’t many, many reasons to criticize the U.S. government. But I would wager that drudging up a months-old harassment campaign rooted in transphobia against an Algerian boxer isn’t a pressing issue for most — or any — American voters. Does Trump really want to court even more legal trouble than he already has?

As bizarre as the inclusion of Khelif in an American presidential campaign ad is, Republican candidates attempting to weaponize transphobic fearmongering is nothing new. An October New York Times analysis of AdImpact data found that Republicans have spent over $65 million on anti-trans campaign ads since the beginning of August and the Trump campaign had already spent $15.5 million on anti-trans ads in just three weeks.

Yet based on polling data, anti-trans ads are unlikely to help Trump win over undecided voters. An October 9 Gallup poll asked voters to gauge the importance of 22 issues, such as the economy, immigration, and what types of Supreme Justices candidates would pick. Of those issues, “transgender rights” ranked last.