President-elect Donald Trump vowed Sunday to finish the “transgender lunacy” within the nation and maintain transgender athletes out of ladies’s sports activities for good.
Trump spoke at AmericaFest in Arizona on the Phoenix Conference Middle with inauguration day for his second time period in workplace just a few weeks away.
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President-elect Donald Trump factors at AmericaFest, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photograph/Rick Scuteri)
“With a stroke of my pen on Day 1, we’re going to cease the transgender lunacy,” Trump proclaimed to cheers. “And I’ll signal govt orders to finish little one mutilation, get transgender out of the army and out of our elementary colleges and center colleges and excessive colleges.
“And we are going to maintain males out of ladies’s sports activities. And that may, likewise, be carried out on Day 1. Ought to I do Day 1, Day 2 or Day 3? How about Day 1? Below the Trump administration, it is going to be the official coverage of the US authorities that there are solely two genders — female and male. It doesn’t sound too difficult. Does it?”
Trump vowed to finish the ‘transgender lunacy.’ (Alexander Pohl/NurPhoto through Getty Photos)
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Transgender inclusion in ladies’s sports activities grew to become an underlying marketing campaign difficulty for Trump as he was the one one of many two candidates to attract a tough line towards it.
As he accepted the Republican nomination for president in July, he made his stance clear.
“We won’t have males taking part in in ladies’s sports activities, that may finish instantly,” he mentioned on the time.
President-elect Donald Trump speaks at AmericaFest, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photograph/Rick Scuteri)
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He additionally appeared on on Barstool Sports activities’ “Bussin’ with the Boys” with former NFL gamers Taylor Lewan and Will Compton and known as the notion of trans inclusion in ladies’s sports activities “ridiculous.”
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