Republicans care more about attacking 1% of Americans than helping any of us | Opinion

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Opinion by Sara Pequeño (28 Jan 2025)

After running a campaign that spent millions on transphobic ads and declaring his desire to rid schools of "transgender insanity," President Donald Trump is acting on the threats he made.

Shortly after being sworn in as president, Trump signed an executive order titled "Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government," declaring that the United States government would only recognize two sexes, male and female.

With a single measure, Trump and the rest of the Republican Party signaled to transgender people across the country that they are not welcome in the United States.

There are so many other things that the government could focus on right now. They could have started off the administration by implementing a plan to improve the economy. Egg prices hit new highs in December, and there are signs the price will keep going up. Where's the plan to help Americans with ever rising costs? 

Instead, the new Republican administration would rather use time and resources to attack the rights of less than 1% of the U.S. population. They're seemingly more interested in targeting Americans than they are in helping us.

I am going to stay away from this whole thing because I get way too opinionated on it and get in trouble over it... but the article is spot on. Literally. Governments get fixated over either anti- or pro- something. The left is just as bad as the right. They want to pander to their voters. Pander to people's views on things that, in the grand scheme of things, are insignificant.

One of my favourite comedians, Johnathan Pie, made a video recently and he talked about how the right won because the left lost. And that's kind of on point.



It's the old saying "Evil triumphs when good does nothing."