Donald Trump had recently finished a familiar riff about banning gender transition surgery for children when the former president, speaking to an audience of Evangelical voters, moved on to something new: a policy that would affect transgender adults.

“I will ban all taxpayer funding for sex or gender transitions at any age,” said Trump, receiving thunderous applause at the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference in Washington last month. The Republican leader, who moments earlier had also pledged to reinstate a ban on transgender men and women serving in the military, paused for several seconds to soak in the crowd’s adulation.

It’s the kind of moment — and the type of policy — increasingly common on the GOP presidential campaign trail this year.

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      1 year ago

      “They don’t permanently disfigure you for life.”

      Who are these people with magical regrowing foreskins? That’s ABSOLUTELY a permanent change. If a guy wants one, I have no problem with it… but pretending it isn’t the permanent alteration of a body part is goofy.

      What people do with their own bodies is none of your business, nor is it the business of the government. I know this might be surprising to you, but “willingly not having children” is a choice people are allowed to make.

      Maybe stop worrying about what other people do with themselves and start working on yourself.