US President-elect Donald Trump announced on December 22 that he will put an end to “transgender frenzy” on his first day in the White House, in a new attack on the rights of the LGBT+ community.
“On January 20, I will sign bills to ban genital mutilation in children and exclude transgender people from the military and schools,” he said during a meeting with young Republicans in Phoenix, in the southwestern United States.
“The official policy of the United States will be that there are only two genders, male and female,” he added.
Medical treatments for the gender transition of minors and the access of transgender women to women's sports competitions are hot topics in the United States.
During the election campaign, Trump had repeatedly lashed out against what he defines as “the dictatorship of political correctness”.
In November the Republican Party established that the first transgender elected to the House of Representatives, Sarah McBride, will not be able to use the women's bathrooms.
“We will defeat ideology woke,” the president-elect said in Phoenix, to applause from the crowd.
He finishes wokelinked to the struggles for the rights of African Americans, is continually evoked by the American right, with a distorted meaning, to denounce what it considers excessive attention to the claims of minorities and to social and climate injustices.
Immigration and foreign policy
Trump also reiterated his position on immigration: “On the day I take office, I will sign a series of bills to close the border to illegal immigrants and stop the invasion of the country. At the same time, I will initiate the largest mass expulsion in the history of the United States.”
Finally, Trump listed his foreign policy priorities. “I will end the war in Ukraine, I will stop the chaos in the Middle East and, I promise, I will prevent World War III.”
