I had been thinking that Donald Trump was just intentionally conflating policies in some states that require teachers to use kids’ preferred pronouns into being unauthorized “you send your boy to school, and he comes back a girl” sex-change operations.
The lesson learned today: you can never underestimate Donald Trump, because it’s always worse than it seems with him.
“No transgender, no operations. You know they take your kid, there are some places your boy leaves the school, comes back a girl, OK, without parental consent. What is that all about?” Trump said at an event in New York City taped last week and highlighted on a segment on “Fox & Friends” on Monday morning.
Y’all, he actually thinks schools are performing sex-change operations.
Even better here, the Fox News folks not only didn’t push back, oh, no.
“The reaction when he started talking about what’s happening to the kids, y’all are parents. I’m not a parent, but there’s a lot of men that don’t like that, that they’re taking the rights of parents away and deciding to teach these kids this nonsense,” some guy named Lawrence Jones said, before adding: “The school doesn’t get to make the decision to transition them to another gender. And it’s happening.”
You don’t need me to tell you this, but, no, it’s not happening.
“It is happening,” “Fox & Friends” co-anchor Ainsley Earhardt insisted, then added: “It’s unbelievable as a parent that you would not be notified for such a major decision.”
Yes, indeed, it is unbelievable, that not only do we have a candidate in what we’re being told is a 50-50 election who actually believes schools are either performing or at the least authorizing sex-change operations for kids, but we also have people who are referred to as journalists adding whatever authority they have to this nonsense.
Donald Trump and Fox News aren’t threats to democracy; they’re threats to basic common sense.
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Chris Graham
