Donald Trump issued a statement for the Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) that attacked trans people and listed all of the measures he has taken in his second term to make trans people’s lives more difficult.

The proclamation is entitled “President Trump Ended Democrats’ ‘Transgender for Everybody’ Insanity.” “Transgender for everybody” is a phrase that Trump often uses while speaking extemporaneously, often on topics completely unrelated to LGBTQ+ issues, and it’s unclear what he thinks it means.

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The president’s statement opens by bringing up how the TDOV fell on Easter Sunday in 2024, saying that former President Joe Biden “desecrated Easter Sunday with a ‘transgender’ message that elevated radical leftist ideology over faith, family, and biological truth.” The TDOV is always held on March 31, while Easter shifts each year depending on lunar cycles. Many conservatives are still mad about this.

The statement then describes how Trump ended “the era of government-sanctioned delusion” by listing actions he has taken to make transgender people’s lives harder. This includes his executive order ending government recognition of trans and nonbinary people, his ban on federal funds going to institutions that support gender affirming care for trans youth, and his use of federal power to get private organizations like the Olympics to ban trans women from sports.

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Nowhere does the statement recognize that transgender people are people with rights who are guaranteed equal protection under the law, nor does the statement even claim that the administration has helped them in any way.

This may be one of the few times the current administration will acknowledge an LGBTQ+ awareness day. Trump did not issue a proclamation for Pride Month last year, something that presidents going back to Bill Clinton have done.

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