Coming out of his very short political retirement, Sunday February 28, on the occasion of an annual gathering of conservatives, Donald Trump was not content to denounce the migration policy of his Democratic successor, Joe Biden, or to resume his theory of the plot on the alleged rigging of the November 3 presidential election. He also attacked the sexual minority of transgender people head-on by ensuring that they could provoke “The destruction of women’s sport”.
“ Young girls and women are exasperated that they now have to compete with biological men. It’s not good for women “, he said, adding without the slightest factual element that “Records that lasted for years and decades are now crushed with ease” by transgender people.
These criticisms are in line with the discriminatory measures adopted during his tenure. After a long struggle, the former president managed to exclude transgender people from the military and to remove from many levels of the federal government any reference to the sexual identity in which they identify themselves and replace it with that of their birth. He had also appointed to posts of federal judges several conservative jurists known for their hostility towards this sexual minority described by some of them as an auxiliary of a “Satanic plan”.
“Cultural war”
This theme took the place of the denunciation of gay marriage, enshrined in a judgment of the Supreme Court in 2015. Eleven years earlier, the fight against the recognition of any union between people of the same sex had been instrumentalized by the outgoing Republican president , George W. Bush, during the 2004 presidential campaign. The gradual acceptance by American public opinion of this form of union, whose support rose from 42% to 67% from 2004 to 2020 according to the barometer of the Gallup Institute, including in the conservative ranks (49% in 2020 instead of 19% in 2004) deprived the Republican Party of this element of the ” cultural war Which opposes him to the Democratic Party.
In quick succession, two controversies have placed the community of transgender people at the forefront of its criticism. Georgia’s representative, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has become the face of republican radicalism mixed with conspiracy, tried to block on February 24 the adoption by the House of Representatives of the Equality Act, a bill aimed at protect sexual minorities.
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