'At any age': Donald Trump pushes the GOP towards targeting transgender adults

[Nevilledog]

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/03/2023/at-any-age-donald-trump-pushes-the-gop-towards-targeting-transgender-adults

You’d be forgiven if you missed Donald Trump’s new plan to stop “left-wing gender insanity.” Other Republicans had talked like this for years, and far more media attention went to, say, Ron Desantis getting the College Board to take left-wing voices out of an African American Studies course.

But to both LGBT advocates and social conservatives, Trump’s policy rollout was a watershed moment, one that signaled a hard right turn from debates focused on transitioning youth to a broader attack on the very concept of transgender identity itself.

Trump had already supported efforts by red states to ban gender-affirming care for minors, discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools, and transgender student athletes. Now, Trump was promising a gag order on federal promotion of gender transition “at any age” and a law “establishing that the only genders recognized by the United States government are male and female, and they are assigned at birth.”

“The biggest thing here is the pivot away from transgender youth to all transgender people,” said Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, executive director at the National Center for Transgender Equality. “This year is the first time we’ve seen actions, in states, going after adults. That is brand new for Trump.”

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[Hekate]

1. TFG is a one-man horror show

[Initech]

2. They're gonna go full Hitler, aren't they?

[dewsgirl]

4. I really think so.

[Initech]

5. What's it going to take to stand up and start denouncing these psychos?

This bullshit has got to stop before they do something really horrible. I used to wonder how the average person fell for Hitler's crimes, I wonder no more. We're witnessing it in real time.

[70sEraVet]

3. Sick man, pandering to his sick followers.

They'll eat it up.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. And the life he's led, to be judging others

Wave your Bible, Orange Man. The rubes will buy your flatulence.