The hate to come
On Sunday, Dec. 22, Donald Trump spoke at Turning Point USA’s annual AmericaFest, which is a who’s who of creeps. To the audience of right-wing extremists Trump said, “With the stroke of my pen, on Day 1, we’re going to stop the transgender lunacy.” What is “transgender lunacy,” you ask?
Well, it apparently is the very existence of transgender people. Trump wants to end gender-affirming care, ban trans athletes from women’s sports, kick transgender people out of the military and rid “our elementary schools and middle schools and high schools” of transgender people.
If it sounds ugly that’s because it is ugly. Transgender people are a very small percentage of the population, which makes the laser focus on them from the highest reaches of power especially sick and scary. “Under the Trump administration, it will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female,” Trump said. “Doesn’t sound too complicated, does it?” No, it doesn’t sound complicated at all.
In fact, it sounds woefully simplistic. But that is how Trump and the Republicans approach even the most complicated of problems: No nuance allowed.
