Donald Trump Tells Unforgivable Whopper About ‘Transgender’ Classes In School

Donald Trump on Monday instructed “transgender” is the principal topic now taught in faculties. He had a sympathetic ear in Fox Nation host Kellyanne Conway, his former adviser who launched the world to the idea of “alternative facts.”

“We wish studying, writing and arithmetic,” Trump stated in a dialog about his plans for schooling reform if he wins the election subsequent month. “Proper now, you may have largely transgender. Every thing’s transgender.”

“A few of these faculty packages, I checked out it the opposite evening ― they’re destroying our nation,” the previous president added.

Trump prefaced his outrageous assertion ― yet one more salvo within the tradition wars ― by alluding to his plan to close the Department of Education and switch over schooling fully to the states. “They usually’ll do nice,” he stated.

The Republican nominee famous that the U.S. spends extra money per pupil than some other developed nation ― a declare that the info somewhat supports ― and but is underperforming globally.

“We wish faculty alternative, however we have now to get out of this Washington factor,” he stated. “We’re gonna transfer it again to the states.”

The president has leaned on transphobia to characterize public faculties as a breeding floor for excessive ideology on gender ― and his online plan for schooling displays that.

Chopping federal funding “for any faculty or program pushing Crucial Race Principle, gender ideology, or different inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content material on our youngsters” is the highest precedence listed on that web page.

The plan additionally lists “Hold males out of girls’s sports activities” as a precedence, one other signal of the marketing campaign’s embrace of transphobia.