On Transgender Issues, Voters Want Common Sense
nytimes.comPerhaps as a threat of what’s to come, on Friday, supporters of President-elect Donald Trump recirculated a video statement on X that he made last year on transgender issues.
In it, he pledges to stop federal backing for programs that support the concept of gender transition at any age and to ban gender-affirming care for minors.
Any hospital that performs gender surgery on young people would be ejected from Medicare and Medicaid. He would cut federal funds to schools that tell children “they could be trapped in the wrong body,” and get a law that bars “men from participating in women’s sports.” And it wasn’t just one video — Trump made his intentions clear throughout the campaign, and he won handily.
During the closing weeks of the election, Republican campaigns spent over $65 million on ads ridiculing, among several candidates, Kamala Harris for supporting “taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners” and “illegal aliens,” all ending with variations on the tagline: “Kamala Harris is for they/them.
