Upon his return to the White House | Donald Trump says he wants to “stop the transgender madness”

(Phoenix) Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he wanted to stop the “transgender delirium” from his first day in the White House next month, in a new salvo from the Republican camp against the rights of the LGBTQ+ community.

As soon as he is inaugurated on January 20, “I will sign decrees to put an end to sexual mutilation of children, exclude transgender people from the army and exclude them from primary, middle and high schools,” insisted the next American president.

“The official policy of the United States will be that there are only two genders, man and woman,” the winner of the November 5 presidential election continued before a crowd of young conservatives gathered in Phoenix, Arizona.

Medical treatments for minors to change their gender or transgender women's access to women's sports competitions are hot topics in a polarized United States.

During the electoral campaign, the Republican billionaire brandished the scarecrow of what the conservative camp sees as the diktat of “wokism” and right-thinking.

Republicans oppose LGBT+ rights in the states they control and, in the US Congress, right-wing elected officials wanted to block access to the women's toilets in the Capitol in November for the first transgender woman elected to the House, Sarah McBride.

“Wokism must stop,” the Republican said again to the applause of the crowd.

“Liberation Day”

Donald Trump, who on January 20 will become the 47^e President of the United States after defeating Democrat Kamala Harris, also redoubled his attacks on Sunday in Phoenix on immigration, another favorite theme during his campaign.

On that day, he promised, “I will sign a series of executive orders to close our border to illegal immigrants and stop the invasion of our country. And on the same day, we will begin the largest deportation operation in American history. »

“January 20 will truly be the day of liberation in America,” he said during this event organized by Turning Point USA, an organization founded by far-right polemicist Charlie Kirk, support of Donald Trump.

In his speech lasting more than an hour – in the style of his campaign rallies – the former and future president linked his priorities for his next term, which he promises as a “golden age”, and insisted on the speed with which he wants to implement his reforms.

Without mentioning long political negotiations which avoided a paralysis of the American federal government at the last minute on Saturday, he also repeated his priorities in terms of foreign policy.

He also reiterated his threats from the day before regarding the Panama Canal, accusing the Panamanian authorities who have controlled it entirely since 1999 of not treating American ships “fairly”.

If this does not change, thundered the former real estate tycoon, “we will demand that the Panama Canal be immediately returned to the United States. »