President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to right away cease “transgender lunacy” and make it “official policy ” to solely acknowledge two genders, female and male.
“With the stroke of my pen on day one, we’re going to stop the transgender lunacy,” Trump informed supporters at AmericaFest 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona, on Sunday, in keeping with a video shared by C-Span.
“I will sign executive orders to end child sexual mutilation, get transgender out of the military and out of our elementary schools and middle schools and high schools,” he stated, drawing cheers from the gang.
“Under the Trump administration, it will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female,” he continued as he additionally vowed to “keep men out of women’s sports.”
“Doesn’t sound too complicated, does it?”
Trump railed off in opposition to transgender rights a number of days after the Senate gave the inexperienced mild to the Pentagon’s ginormous $895 billion annual funds on Wednesday, which incorporates provisions that strip protection of transgender medical therapies for youngsters of army members.
The Senate handed the 1,800-page Nationwide Protection Authorization Act (NDAA) in an 85-14 vote, shifting the measure onto President Biden’s desk.
Each fiscal yr, which begins on Oct. 1, Congress is tasked with passing the NDAA to authorize protection spending and specify expenditures. This yr’s invoice comes two months late and quantities to a roughly 1% uptick over final yr’s funds.
Whereas NDAAs traditionally garner bipartisan help, Republicans managed to slide the availability on transgender healthcare by means of, a lot to the displeasure of Democrats.
Particularly, the NDAA blocks the army’s well being care service Tricare from footing the invoice for “gender transition” protection for service members’ kids who’re below the age of 18.
Twenty-one Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), voted in opposition to the availability, which Baldwin claimed would impression anyplace from 6,000 to 7,000 kids of service members.
There are some 10,000 transgender youth ages 6 to 22 with mother and father lively within the army, in keeping with an estimate from the Fashionable Army Affiliation of America.
