Donald Trump vs. Transgender: “Only male and female are recognized”

US President-elect Donald Trump sticks to his transgender criticism: He has once again announced that he will stop the “transgender madness” in the United States. He will sign executive orders “to end the sexual mutilation of children” and to ban transgender people from the military, elementary, middle and high schools, the Republican said at an event in Phoenix, Arizona. “And we’re going to keep men out of women’s sports.”

During the election campaign, Trump had already caused a lot of cheering among his audience at rallies with these statements. He also made fun of transgender people on stage. Trans people or transgender people are people who do not feel like they belong to the gender that they were assigned at birth.

Trump continued in Phoenix: “Under the Trump administration, it will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.” During the election campaign, he had already announced that on his first day in office he would repeal a current ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in schools, which the administration of outgoing President Joe Biden introduced in early 2024 to protect transgender students.

Trump’s close confidant Elon Musk has also repeatedly made it clear in the heated discrimination debate in the USA that he considers the protection of minorities to be an unrealistic aberration on the part of elite left-wing circles. Among other things, the tech billionaire railed against the medical care of young people who do not identify with their biological gender.

According to her own statements, Musk’s daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson has been living as a trans woman since 2020 and harshly criticizes her father for his statements against gender reassignment. The differences of opinion with his daughter are seen in some US media as a key reason why Musk now represents the positions of the American right.