Joe Biden: the first trans-activist president

The trans issue has grabbed the US electorate by the genitals. In the pre-election period, Republicans have reportedly spent more than $65million on television ads highlighting the madness of the Democratic Party’s push for ‘trans inclusion’. And who can blame them? Sane Americans would surely struggle to vote for a party that has championed dangerous puberty-blocking drugs for children, invited trans flashers to the White House and housed male rapists in women’s prisons. And what all-American sports fan wants to see men run, cycle or swim off with trophies meant for women?

Under the Biden-Harris administration, so-called trans rights have been sanctified, becoming a holy mission for the mainstream left. Last year, Biden claimed on Transgender Day of Visibility that ‘transgender Americans shape our nation’s soul’. In the same speech, Biden claimed there is an ‘epidemic of violence against transgender women and girls’, although all the evidence would suggest it is actual women and girls who are being put most at risk from his trans-rights crusade, as sex-based rights are corroded and women’s spaces are thrown open to any man who claims to be a woman.

As Biden now prepares to shuffle off the global political stage, it’s worth looking at the damage he has done while waving the insipid baby blue, white and blush-pink tricolour trans flag. The president’s position was clear from the outset. On his first day in office, he blithely signed away women’s rights when he nodded through an executive order, entitled ‘Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation’. By treating discrimination on the basis of ‘gender identity’ as equivalent to sex discrimination, the order effectively removed the sex-based rights of the nearly 900,000 women who work in the federal government, and more who rely on statutory services. A year later, his administration proposed similar changes to Title IX. Title IX was established to defend women’s rights in education. But the updated version instead obliterates single-sex bathrooms, sports and locker rooms in federally funded schools.

The ramifications for women at the sharp end of Biden’s trans-inclusive policies have been obscene. As Reduxx magazine has consistently reported, the most dangerous and predatory male prisoners are now routinely locked up with women inmates who are then penalised if they complain.

Elizabeth Chesak, president of feminist organisation Women’s Declaration International USA, says Biden’s trans-inclusive policies are wildly unpopular, and that many federal district courts have blocked them from being enacted. ‘According to polling conducted last year on behalf of WDI USA, most Americans – including Democrats – agree that a woman is an adult human female’, she tells me.

‘Whether or not Biden actually believes that a woman can have a penis, it is apparent that his human-rights policies are driven by transgender ideologues. Many of us once again feel disenfranchised by both major parties, as Republicans want to restrict abortion access, and Democrats have sold out to gender-identity ideology, which radical feminists see as a men’s rights movement. Democrats may continue to see women leave the party as long as the political left shows women they see them as nothing more than an idea in a man’s head.’

Some of Biden’s initiatives have bordered on the comical. When he hosted an LGBTQIA+ Pride event at the White House, one of the attendees, a model and influencer known as Rose Montoya, flashed his moobs and danced provocatively. It took Biden three days to say Montoya was no longer welcome. He also took time out of his busy presidential schedule to speak with simpering trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney, a gay man who behaves like a grotesque parody of an attention-seeking teenage girl. When he interviewed Biden, Mulvaney was celebrating his ‘221st day of girlhood’. He later went on to crash the Bud Light brand after he was unveiled as one of its new ambassadors.

Many of Biden’s actions that have been heralded as great steps for ‘trans rights’ have been downright chilling. His appointment of trans activist Rachel Levine first as assistant secretary for health, and then as an admiral and head of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, has allowed the dangerous fiction of the ‘transgender child’ to be embedded into medical protocols across the US. Levine has repeatedly made the false claim that there is ‘no argument among medical professionals’ surrounding the care of children who identify as transgender and that ‘gender-affirming care for transgender youth is essential and can be life-saving’. In the years since Levine’s appointment, detransitioners have begun to file lawsuits against the medical professionals who removed their breasts, sex organs and prescribed them hormones. The damage to these young people will be felt long after Levine and Biden have left office.

In essence, the Democratic Party has sacrificed women’s rights and children’s safety at the altar of gender ideology, providing Republicans with an open goal.

Joe Biden was America’s first trans activist commander-in-chief. Here’s hoping he’ll be the last.

Jo Bartosch is a journalist campaigning for the rights of women and girls.