President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to immediately stop “transgender madness” and make it an “official policy” to recognize only two genders, male and female.
“With the stroke of my pen on day one, we are going to stop transgender madness,” Trump told supporters at AmericaFest 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona, on Sunday. Video Shared by C-SPAN.
He said, “I will sign executive orders to end child sexual assault, to keep transgender people out of the military and out of our elementary schools and middle schools and high schools.”
“Under the Trump administration, it will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female,” he said, adding that he also vowed to “keep men out of women’s sports.”
“It doesn’t sound too complicated, does it?”
Trump pushed back against transgender rights days after the Senate on Wednesday greenlit the Pentagon’s massive $895 billion annual budget, which includes provisions that would strip coverage. Transgender Medical Treatment for Children Of military members.
The Senate passed the 1,800-page National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by a vote of 85-14, sending the measure to President Biden’s desk.
Each fiscal year, which begins on October 1, Congress is tasked with passing the NDAA to authorize defense spending and specifying expenditures. This year’s bill is two months late and is about 1% more than last year’s budget.
While NDAAs historically receive bipartisan support, Republicans managed to water down the provision on transgender healthcare, much to the anger of Democrats.
Specifically, the NDAA prevents Tricare, the military’s health care service, from paying the bill for “gender change” coverage for children of service members under the age of 18.
Twenty-one Senate Democrats, led by Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), voted against the provision, which Baldwin claimed would affect 6,000 to 7,000 children of service members.
According to an estimate by the Modern Military Association of America, there are approximately 10,000 transgender youth ages 6 to 22 who have a parent active in the military.
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