It's Not Just Trump: The Jig Is Up For 'Gender Identity' In 2025
How hard will Democrats fight for lost causes?
An old Democratic Party acquaintance reconnected with me yesterday to admit I had been right. “Well you said the trans thing would be an issue, when you were right,” they said. “I can’t even say publicly how much I think it was really a factor but I saw right here … how much it was.” Sports were the topic most commonly raised in his everyday conversations. Turns out that Americans do not enjoy watching sports cheats, just as I had warned Democrats years ago.
Donald Trump will not fix this all by himself. Holding his feet to the fire will be essential. We want swift executive action to protect female sports categories, regulatory action to shut down the child-sterilizing medical cult, and policy action to remove pronouns and Queer Theory indoctrination from the federal bureaucracy. We want our single-sex and same-sex rights back.
There are many battles to fight. Somewhere in all those asks, for example, someone must convince the Trump 47 administration to care about men being housed in…
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