Rep. Sarah McBride says Trump's executive order can't erase the LGBTQ community
Rep. Sarah McBride, the first out transgender member of Congress, said Trump’s executive order targeting transgender people is not what Americans actually want.
Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del., the first openly transgender member of Congress, called President Donald Trump’s executive order proclaiming there are only two sexes that are not changeable “red meat for his extreme base.”
“This is red meat for the online trolls who are doing his bidding every single day, but this is not what the American people want,” McBride told NBC Philadelphia on Tuesday. “They want a federal government that, one, respects everyone across all of our differences, but also a federal government that’s focused like a laser on lowering costs for workers, and that is not what this executive action does. And frankly, it’s really not what any of the executive actions that this president has put forward will do.”
Trump signed dozens of executive orders Monday, just hours after his inauguration, including one titled “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” The order declares that the U.S. government will recognize only two sexes, male and female, and that “these sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.”
The order directs the secretaries of state and homeland security to “implement changes to require that government-issued identification documents, including passports, visas, and Global Entry cards, accurately reflect the holder’s sex,” as defined by the order.
The action also broadly bars federal funds from being used “to promote gender ideology,” which it says “replaces the biological category of sex with an ever-shifting concept of self-assessed gender identity, permitting the false claim that males can identify as and thus become women and vice versa, and requiring all institutions of society to regard this false claim as true.”
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