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.
It’s the kind of moment — and the type of policy — increasingly common on the GOP presidential campaign trail this year.
They’d like to hate on gays like in the good old days, but that’s no longer socially acceptable. Trans folks are the next best thing.
They’re going to get back to hating the gays publicly soon too/have already started. Just look at what they did around Pride Month and what the Supreme Court is up to. It’s a matter of time if we don’t push back hard against their transphobic shit now.