Donald Trump stripped my son of his rights and dignity. America shrugged.

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Donald Trump stripped my son of his rights and dignity. America shrugged.

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Opinion by Jennifer Riley (1 Feb 2025)

According to the new president of the United States, my 18-year-old son does not exist.

A freshman at The Ohio State University, he's transgender. Some of his close friends at school know this; other classmates just see him as another guy – if not a particularly tall one.

He doesn't bother anyone about it, and nobody around him seems to care.

Donald Trump cares.

He took time in his inaugural address to say that he acknowledges the existence of only biological males and biological females. When he got to the White House later that day, he backed up those words, issuing a series of executive orders to strip trans people of rights and their dignity.

As a mom, what's more shocking to me than the presidentially announced oppression of a vulnerable minority group has been the collective shrug with which it has been met by the public.

People seemed to be more upset about the first lady's hat.

The president himself, in his first campaign, famously declared that transgender people can use the restroom of their choice at Trump Tower.

So what changed? Did the president and the vice president learn something new? Did they become smarter?

No, just meaner.