Donald Trump had recently finished a familiar riff about banning gender transition surgery for children when the former president, speaking to an audience of Evangelical voters, moved on to something new: a policy that would affect transgender adults. “I will ban all taxpayer funding for sex or gender transitions at any age,” said Trump, receiving thunderous applause at the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference in Washington last month. The Republican leader, who moments earlier had also pledged to reinstate a ban on transgender men and women serving in the military, paused for several seconds to soak in the crowd’s adulation.
Obviously. This was always the plan.
You think a bunch of old white Republican men were actually passionate about high school girls’ sports? No, it was just a game they were playing until they could start speaking openly. The goal is to push the anti-trans laws as much as possible and be as oppressive as possible.