The president of the United States, Donald Trump, urged the members of Congress to approve laws that develop their executive orders to reduce gender ideology in public life, during a Joint Congress Session Tuesday night.
“I want Congress to approve a bill that prohibits and penalizes sex changes in children and ends forever with the lie that any child is caught in the wrong body,” Trump told parliamentarians, which caused a strong applause of republican legislators and the silence of the Democrats.
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“It is a great lie and our message to all children in the United States is that they are perfect as God created them,” Trump added. “We are eliminating what wokeness Of our schools and our armed forces and is already out, it is out of our society. We don’t want it. ”
Trump’s speech, which began shortly after 9:00 pm (local time) on March 4, had moments of confrontation with the Democrats. The president focused his first speech before Congress, in his second term, on the executive orders he has signed and in his intention that Congress turns them into federal laws.
Some of the issues on which he focused were gender ideology, illegal immigration, affordability and economy, internal energy expansion and efforts to reform the government and cut public spending.
“American compatriots, prepare for an incredible future because the golden era of the United States just begins. It will be something that has never been seen before, ”Trump said.
During the beginning of his speech, when the president said he had won the popular vote, he received strong applause from the Republicans and boos of the Democrats.
The president of the House of Representatives, Republican Mike Johnson warned the Democrats after the boos interrupted the speech several times. Finally, he ordered the withdrawal of the Democratic representative to Green for repeated missing faults. Many Democrats carried posters that pointed out “Save Medicaid” in protest against the Republican Expenditure Plan of the House of Representatives.
“It’s very sad and should not be so,” Trump said in response to the teasing of the Democrats.
“For the good of our nation, let’s work together and make the United States again,” he added.
Gender ideology remains in the spotlight
During his speech, Trump spoke of several executive orders he signed to reduce gender ideology, including an order to Deny federal funds To the primary and secondary schools that “make the social transition” of the genre of a child, as well as an order that terminates the federal funds for medical care providers who carry out gender transition surgeries in children and offer them medications for gender transition.
Trump also praised one of the White House guestsJanuary Littlejohn, who sued the Leon County School Board in Florida after the school authorities made the “gender transition” to his secondary daughter without the knowledge or permission of Littlejohn. Trump called her a “brave defender against this form of child abuse.”
“Stories like this are the reason why, shortly after assuming the position, I signed an executive order that prohibits public schools from indoctrinating our children with transgender ideology,” he said.
“I also signed an order to cut all the financing of taxpayers to any institution that participates in the sexual mutilation of our youth,” he added.
Trump also highlighted his executive order to deny federal funds to schools and universities that allow men to compete in women’s sports. In addition, he praised the former student Payton McNabb for his defense against male participation in female competitions.
“Three years ago, Payton McNabb was a high school athlete, one of the best, preparing for a future in university sports,” Trump said. “But when a man invaded his female volleyball party, he crashed his ball with such force in the face of Payton (which caused him) a traumatic brain injury, partially paralyzing the right side and ending his sports career. It was a blow like I had never seen before. I had never seen anything the same. ”
“From now on, schools will expel men from the women’s team or lose all federal financing,” he added, qualifying the practice of allowing men to play in female leagues of “degrading for women” and “very bad for our country.”
In January, the House of Representatives approved a bill that would have codified the prohibition that men participate in women’s sports. However, this week, Democratic legislators blocked a similar bill in the Senate.
Translated and adapted by the ACI Press team. Originally published in CNA.
Tyler Arnold
Tyler Arnold is a reporter of the National Catholic Register. He previously worked at The Center Square and has published in various media, including The Associated Press, National Review, The American Conservative and The Federalist.