After signing several executive orders explicitly targeting trans people, and making transgender rights a key election issue, US president Donald Trump has now claimed that “everything is transgender”.
Addressing journalists on Wednesday (12 March), during a meeting with Micheál Martin, the taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland, Trump said: “Everything is transgender. Everybody transgender. That is all you hear about and that is why we won the election in record numbers.”
The existence of transgender people is “demeaning” to women, he added, before calling on Democrats to “get with” Republican lawmakers to “come up with good tax policy”.
Since Trump re-entered the White House, his administration has set out to make life less durable for trans people, proclaiming that the official policy of the US is that there are “only two sexes”, banning transgender people from serving in the military and restricting gender-affirming healthcare for trans youngsters under the age 19.
He has also moved to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programmes across the government and in the military.
@pinknews In a meeting with the Irish PM Micheál Martin to mark St Patrick’s Day on Wednesday 12 March, US President Donald Trump claimed that “everybody is transgender”. He also claimed that his stance on trans rights is why he “won the election with record numbers”. Since his inauguration, Trump has signed several anti-trans executive orders, including declaring that the US government will only recognise ‘two sexes: male and female’. #donaldtrump #transgender #transrights #trumpadministration #lgbtqia