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Trump Fully Embracing ‘Transgender’ Issue As He Seeks To Protect Minors
Charlie Kirk Staff
10/30/2024
Former President Donald Trump marveled at the amount of applause he got during a primary season rally in Iowa in 2023 when he told the crowd he would work to protect minors and women from the left’s radical gender ideology.
“Look at the hand you get for that,” Trump marveled during a March 14, 2023, speech in Davenport, Iowa. “Bigger than, ‘We’re going to be energy independent!’”
Nobody would have understood what he was referring to, Trump said, if he had discussed gender ideology at a campaign rally during his first presidential run. He was correct. Four years ago, few Americans could have envisioned a presidential candidate pledging to protect children from transgender surgeries or allowing men to compete against their daughters in sports, the Daily Wire noted.
While Trump avoided talking about the issue in 2020, in 2024, he’s fully embracing it.
In the final stretch of the campaign, Trump has focused on the Left’s support of transgenderism, investing millions in television ads that emphasize Kamala Harris’s endorsement of far-left policies, including taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for illegal immigrants and federal prisoners.
“Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you,” warns Trump’s most aired ad. It’s also his most effective ad, according to Democratic testing results reviewed by The New York Times.
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Republicans nationwide are following Trump’s example, aggressively promoting the message that transgender procedures are irreversible and can significantly harm children.
Candidates across the ballot assert that men do not belong in women’s sports or spaces, and emphasize that parents should have the authority to determine what their children are taught in schools regarding race, sexuality, and gender, the Daily Wire noted further.
The phenomenon surged across the United States in 2021, when parents uncovered the leftist content—both racial and sexual—being presented to their children in schools without their consent, the outlet noted.
In late June 2021, Republican congressman Jim Banks sent a memo urging his colleagues to “lean into the culture war” as a “winning” issue. He took note of the “organic movement from parents across the country in places like Loudoun County” who he said were “fed up with the lessons their kids are being taught.”
“As House conservatives, we should be sending a signal to these concerned parents: We have your back,” Banks wrote.
The Daily Wire added:
That was just a few months before the real watershed moment in October 2021, when authorities arrested a father named Scott Smith at a Loudoun County school board meeting. The Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak exposed that the school system worked to conceal that a skirt-wearing boy sexually assaulted a young girl, Smith’s daughter, as it pushed a transgender bathroom policy.
Rosiak’s explosive October 2021 report came as Republican Glenn Youngkin campaigned to win over Virginia voters, and that report sparked a massive response from Virginia parents. Youngkin listened to these parents and promised he would be their champion. And he won.
His victory in Virginia is widely attributed to his embrace of the parental rights cause, particularly in contrast with his opponent, Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who infamously claimed: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
“A lot of people’s views on the trans issue began to change the moment you brought kids into it,” one senior Trump world adviser told The Daily Wire. “There’s a big difference between what a 25-year-old does versus what a 13-year-old can do.”
“Republicans are pretty live and let live when it comes to how adults want to live their lives,” he added, “but correctly draw the line when it comes to experimental drugs or procedures on children, who can’t coherently make these decisions themselves yet because their brains aren’t even developed.”
Donald Trump Jr. told The Daily Wire: “As a father of two daughters, who are also stellar athletes, I immediately realized that biological men competing in women’s sports wasn’t about being inclusive, it was about being invasive. And years ago, even before this issue was front and center, I spoke out boldly on the trajectory the left was eager to take our country. Sadly, I was all too correct.”
“It’s an injustice and it’s deeply personal to me, just as it’s deeply personal to American families all across this country,” he added. “The left constantly wants to lecture the rest of us about what’s fair, when at the same time they are endorsing the least fair policy you could ever imagine.”
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