Donald Trump describes LGBTQ people as “sickos” in speech signaling 2024 run
Subscribe to our newsletter to stay up-to-date with the latest LGBTQ news“Federal, state, and local government should aggressively enforce existing statutes to stop the perverted sexualization of minor children,” he said. “You have the statutes.”The “sexualization of children” is a phrase that the right has been using this past year to refer to any discussion of LGBTQ identities and children.
The expression has been applied discussing LGBTQ people in school or having LGBTQ books like And Tango Makes Three – which is about a baby penguin with two dads – available in school libraries.It also gets used when supportive parents who don’t force their children to follow gender rules around clothing, or parents who support their transgender kids’ identities.Trump didn’t specify what statutes exist that prevent kids from reading about gay penguins or teens from accessing life-saving health care.“The society that refuses to protect its children is a society that soon will not be able to protect anybody,” Trump said. “This is a hallmark of cultural and social decay against which we should fight back very hard and very soon we don’t have time to wait years to do this.”Trump then admitted he didn’t even know what he was talking about.“The sickos who are pushing sexual content in kindergartens or providing puberty blockers to young children who have no idea what a puberty blocker is – neither do I, by the way, neither do most of the people in the audience as you smile,” he said.
