Trumps Anti-Trans Agenda

Jason Stevens, a senior at Comicon High School, discusses a podcast where he plays clips from a Donald Trump speech targeting the trans community. Trump plans to revoke gender-affirming care, which is recommended by medical associations and reduces suicide rates among transgender children. He criticizes Joe Biden's policies against conversion therapy, which can lead to depression and suicide. Trump also opposes puberty blockers and gender-affirming surgeries for minors, and wants to cease federal programs promoting gender transitions. Hospitals offering such treatments to minors will lose federal funding. Trump aims to punish teachers suggesting a child might be transgender and wants to promote the nuclear family. He rejects recognizing genders beyond male and female, which harms the transgender community. He believes the concept of being born with the wrong gender is a recent invention by the radical left. The speech reveals Trump's dangerous plans and targeting of the trans community Hello, my name is Jason Stevens, and I'm currently a senior at Comicon High School. For this podcast, I will play audio clips from a Donald Trump speech given on January 31st, 2023, targeting the trans community and laying out his anti-trans policies if he's voted into presidency in 2024. In this, I will play a clip and talk shortly about each. Here's my plan to stop the chemical, physical, and emotional mutilation of our youth. 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. So I'm going to stop it here, and I'm going to start with three points that I want to talk about. First, is the gender-affirming care. Gender-affirming care is recommended by all major medical associations to treat gender dysphoria, which is the distress a person can feel when their biological sex does not align with their gender identity. Gender-affirming care is defined as judgment-free, individualized care oriented towards understanding and appreciating a person's gender. It is well known that transgender children who have access to gender-affirming care have much lower rates of considering suicide than those without. The next point in this is Joe Biden's policies. One of Biden's policies he is referring to asks the health department to lead an initiative aimed at reducing youth exposure to conversion therapy. Such practices have been rejected by every mainstream medical and mental health organization for decades. But due to continuing discrimination against LGBTQ people, some practitioners continue to offer conversion therapy. Minors are especially vulnerable, and conversion therapy can lead to depression, anxiety, drug use, homelessness, and suicide. The last point in this to address is the puberty blockers and surgery to minors he is referring to. This would be the top and bottom gender surgeries, such as removing or giving chest features, and puberty blockers are typically followed by testosterone for transgender men and estrogen for transgender females. Any surgeries or hormones for minors currently require parental consent and nothing less. 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. Very simply put here, federal programs that promote gender or sex changes for people at any age, such as Planned Parenthood, would be ceased, as well as others. This will limit or even completely stop opportunities for transgendered citizens to receive hormones or emotional support. I will declare that any hospital or healthcare 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. Again, pretty simple here, hospitals found to offer hormones or gender-affirming surgeries to minors will no longer be able to accept people with Medicare or Medicaid and will no longer be able to after that point. My Department of Education will inform states and school districts that if any teacher or school official suggests to a child that they could be trapped in the wrong body, they will be faced with severe consequences, including potential civil rights violations for sex discrimination and the elimination of federal funding. This segment here is especially important to look at, though it's very simple. This will make it so any teachers or school officials that suggest to a child that they might be transgender will be faced with severe consequences such as civil rights violations and they could possibly be terminated from their job. Doing this would limit what are supposed to be our role models for what they can and can't say to our youth. Such ideas that could help a young and curious child answer how they feel is now gone. As part of our new credentialing body for teachers, we will promote positive education about the nuclear family, the roles of mothers and fathers, and celebrating rather than erasing the things that make men and women different and unique. I will ask Congress to pass a bill establishing that the only genders recognized by the United States government are male and female, and they are assigned at birth. So right here, Donald Trump goes again to abuse the school system. This time, he's using it to promote the idea of nuclear family with purely a mother and a father, and most likely wanting to keep the idea of a homosexual family away. The second part of this clip is that the government will not recognize a third option for a gender such as the X option you might see, nor allowing transgender citizens to mark the gender they identify as and only accepting the gender they were assigned at birth. This is directly a shot at all and any transgender people and people who are non-binary. This step will take the trans community back, limiting them once again to fit into a box of what is acceptable. No serious country should be telling its children that they were born with the wrong gender, a concept that was never heard of in all of human history. Nobody's ever heard of this, what's happening today. It was all when the radical left invented it just a few years ago. Under my leadership, this madness will end. Thank you very much. All comes to an end in the last part of the speech here, where he states that no serious country should be telling its children that they were born with the wrong gender. No serious country should be telling their youth these progressive ideas and ideas that could end up helping the mental health of our youth as it has been already. And this idea was only invented a few years ago, when it's really been around for thousands of years and throughout our history. I encourage you to search this video in your own time and please listen to parts that I didn't have time to talk about. I hope by listening to this you can hear how dangerous his plans are and how specifically he is targeting the trans community in America.