Trump Complains ‘Everything Is Transgender’ Amid Attacks on Community

While speaking to the press on Wednesday, President Donald Trump complained about how much he keeps hearing about the transgender community.

“Everything is transgender, everybody transgender, that is all you hear about — and that is why we won the election in record numbers,” the president said.

Trump also claimed that trans Americans “are hurting women very badly.”

If the president would like to hear less about the trans community, he could advise his own party to remove the massive target they’ve placed on trans people as a scapegoat for all manner of conservative political grievances. 

Among his first actions as president, Trump issued a series of executive orders and agency directives banning gender-affirming care for young people, barring transgender people from serving in the military, and prohibiting trans women from playing in women’s sports leagues. The obsessive fixation on purging trans identity from society has also become a guiding force for Elon Musk and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) butchering of federal agencies. For weeks now, both Trump and Musk have been spreading baseless claims that the government is spending millions of dollars funding “transgender surgery on mice,” using the falsehood as evidence of widespread fraud and corruption that justify their seemingly arbitrary spending cuts.

The same day the president griped about hearing too much about trans people, conservative activist groups and lawmakers hosted “DeTrans Awareness Day,” in Washington, D.C., celebrating the Trump administration’s attacks against the transgender community.

The event focused on the stories of “detransitioners,” or transgender individuals who have ceased gender-affirming medical care or attempted to reverse gender-affirming procedures. The group, which represents an extremely small splinter of the trans community, has become a cause celebre for conservatives anti-trans messaging. 

During a press conference with anti-trans advocates, Rep. Dan Creshaw (R-Texas) expressed his support for efforts to cut off federal funding to medical institutions that provide gender-affirming medical care to minors. “Taxpayer dollars should not be flowing to institutions that are causing life-altering harm to kids in the name of an ideology,” he said.

Most trans individuals who have the financial and social ability to pursue medical transition typically initiate the process in their mid to late twenties, and only a miniscule fraction of individuals diagnosed with gender dysphoria seek surgical interventions prior to adulthood. 

Nevertheless, Republicans accuse health care professionals who provide gender-affirming care — which is not solely relegated to surgical interventions — to young people of participating in a “system that puts ideology ahead of genuine care.” 

It’s not Democrats who are making a show of taping “BIOLOGICAL” signs above women’s bathrooms in the Capitol, intentionally misgendering their colleagues, hosting full-day symposiums on the dangers of transitioning, or attempting to pass legislation restricting the ability of the trans community to live their full lives. It’s the Republican Party who is responsible for Trump seeing “transgender” everywhere. 

The president also acknowledged his party’s reasoning for its attacks against the trans community in his Wednesday presser. While anti-trans sentiment isn’twholly responsible for his reelection, scapegoating and spreading misinformation a vulnerable, misunderstood community plays well with the MAGA base, and Republicans are unlikely to stop anytime soon.