Speaking during AmericaFest 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona, on Sunday, December 22, President-elect Donald Trump vowed that his administration would take a very different line from the Biden Administration when it comes to issues regarding transgender individuals, particularly in women’s sports.
In the speech, the president-elect told the crowd, quite provocatively. “With the stroke of my pen on day one, we’re going to stop the transgender lunacy.” Continuing, he vowed to make a slew of changes to issues regarding schools and the military, saying, “I will sign executive orders to end child sexual mutilation, get transgender out of the military and out of our elementary schools and middle schools and high schools.”
That wasn’t the only time Trump spoke about wokeness in the military during his speech. He also commented on the renaming of America’s military bases, saying, “And as commander in chief, I will restore the proud and historic names of our great military bases like Fort Bragg. We’re going to get them back. And woke has to stop because along with everything else, it’s destroying our country. We’re going to stop woke. Woke – woke is bullshit.”
He added that ships have faced woke renaming as well, saying, “As an example, in addition to the military bases, I understand they want to now rename 14 ships. We going to rename them. Some of these ships have had a great and glorious past. They want to take the name off and put another name down. I can imagine whose name they’re going to put up — not going to happen happened with me. It’s not happening with me.”
In any case, when discussing issues involving transgender individuals the president-elect went on to add that he will ensure women’s sports are limited to biological women, saying, “And we will keep men out of women’s sports. And that will likewise be done on day one. Should I do day one, day two, or day three? How about day one, right?”
He further noted that the American government will maintain a policy of there being only two genders. Speaking on that issue, President-elect Trump said, “Under the Trump administration, it will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female. Doesn’t sound too complicated, does it?”
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Trump has made similar pledges before. At one point recently, for example, he said, “On day one, I will revoke Joe Biden’s cruel policies on so called gender affirming care, ridiculous, a process that includes giving kids puberty blockers, mutating their physical appearance and ultimately performing surgery on minor children. Can you believe this? I will sign a new executive order instructing every federal agency to cease all programs that promote the concept of sex and gender transition at any age.”
He added, “I will then ask Congress to permanently stop federal taxpayer dollars from being used to promote or pay for these procedures and pass a law prohibiting child sexual mutilation in all 50 states. It will go very quickly. I will declare that any hospital or health care provider that participates in the chemical or physical mutilation of minor youth will no longer meet federal health and safety standards for Medicaid and Medicare, and will be terminated from the program immediately. Furthermore, I will support the creation of a private right of action for victims to sue doctors who have unforgivably performed these procedures on minor children.”
The President-elect also said, “The Department of Justice will investigate Big Pharma and the big hospital networks to determine whether they have deliberately covered up horrific long term side effects of sex transitions in order to get rich at the expense of vulnerable patients, in this case, very vulnerable.”
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