re: Trump can't/won't answer whether a man can be a woman in Megyn Kelly interview

Trump owned Miss USA and Miss Universe from 1996 to 2015.

Trump was hands on in the actual running of the pageants. “He basically told us he picked nine of the top fifteen…Shi Lim, who competed that year as Miss Singapore, told me, “The finalists were picked by Trump. He was really in charge.” ( LINK)

In April 2012, a Canadian male Jenna Talackova wanted to participate in Miss Universe Canada and the Miss Universe Organization disqualified Talackova for not being a natural woman. Trump vetoed that decision and allowed Talackova to compete, stating “she’s entitled to compete.”

In the June 2012 Miss USA pageant, “a question from Twitter” was chosen for the question and answer session. Rob Kardashian read the question, which was “would it be fair if a transgender woman won Miss USA over a natural born woman?” This question was asked to Ms Rhode Island, Olivia Culpo. It would be surprising if Trump didn’t sign off on this question.

Culpo answered “yes,” that it would be fair, stating “there’s so many surgeries and so many people out there who have a need to change for a happier life.”

Culpo won Miss USA. Afterward on Fox and Friends, Donald Trump praised her answer, stating “She gave a great answer, a very tough question – on transgender – just the question everybody wants to hear, and she gave a great answer and she really did a great job.”

Culpo would go on to win Miss Universe.

These series of events was international news. As Trump does, he made it a spectacle.

Up until that point in time, it’s hard to point to any other event or story that did more to advance the transgender agenda into mainstream cultural normalcy.

The first transgender athlete to compete in the Olympics was in 2021, nearly a decade later. In 2014, a random teacher coming out as transgender was worthy of being a national news story ( LINK)

So was Trump an intentional leader of the transgender agenda? No. Does he even really care about it? He probably doesn’t give a shite one way or the other.

But what is clear is that he was happy to gain attention from it, legitimize it, and applaud it, regardless of consequences. Regardless of how such legitimization and praise could influence kids and give ground for radical leftists to argue for its injection into the classroom and give ground to the medical industry to push trans treatments and surgeries on children.

Every voter can decide for themselves how this impacts their potential vote for Trump. For me, it’s an automatic disqualifier.