When Graham appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program afterward, she attempted to recover by pivoting from her lack of national security knowledge to transgender athletes, as The Advocate reported.

“Of course, Taiwan is our friend,” Graham said. “But I think people in South Carolina are more worried about making ends meet. They are concerned about boys in girls’ sports.”

Trump continued that strategy Friday by making transgender people a central part of his argument for Graham. He attacked Andrews as a “far-left political hack who supports transgender for everybody” and accused her of telling “confused children they’re trapped in the wrong body.”

Trump may have conflated those medical procedures with agreements his Justice Department has forced on two major hospital systems. Those settlements require Texas Children’s Hospital and the Cleveland Clinic to establish or fund services for people who voluntarily seek to detransition. They do not order hospitals to perform surgery on anyone.

In May, Texas Children’s agreed to pay the state $10 million, end gender-affirming care for minors and establish what federal officials called the country’s first “restorative care” clinic for detransitioners. The Houston hospital also agreed to terminate five physicians connected to its transgender health program and permanently revoke their privileges, as The Advocate reported.

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    Government says wear a mask = bad Government orders genital surgery = good

    Am I getting this right?

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      Yes, because the conservative mind is incapable of any critical thought. Just whatever heir leader says

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    And the king decreed make that one a male and that one a female. The people cheered, he was going to fix this gender problem once and for all. Gender was no longer determined by silly things like genetics, feelings, or facts. Only he could bestow it upon the masses.

    At first people would bribe him for the privilege of a different sex. The corrupt king would pray on poor souls who didn’t fit in. Soon though, he realized his ultimate power. Humiliation.

    “You are no longer male”, he would scream at a general or diplomat. “You are whatever I say you are”, the king would croak through his curled cruel smile as they were hauled away for forced gender change surgery.

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    If they are putting dicks on trans women that had bottom surgery, there’s nothing to stop me getting another one or five grafted on.

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    He makes something up that his hardcore fanatics would consider “good”. That’s all.

    He is running into the situation that even his core base notices that they cannot afford food or fuel anymore, and that his ICE is not just taking “criminals” off the streets, but also their underpaid and exploitable slaves employees.

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    He is so fucking stupid. It makes me cringe thinking that this moron is in charge and all the other branches just bent over for this ugly fat worthless child rapist.

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    Not one person around him has the fucking balls to say that it’s time to take the keys away from grandpa and ship him off to a mental ward…and the whole goddamned world has to sit here and suffer his crazy bullshit.

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      He’s the first, and only, person I’d be happy to find out they contracted Ebola.

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          I was just thinking about how many of his dumb ass sycophants would catch it because masks are for liberals.

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        All because he’s a fucking moron who got confused by the term transgenic.

        He’s like one of those assholes that, as an adult (not as someone in junior high, mind you), snickers at something that starts with homo - like homogenous.

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          I’m not sure who’s dumber: dumbass trump or the dumbasses who voted for him three goddamn times. Any dumbass could’ve been tricked the first time, but smarter dumbasses knew better than to fall for it twice; imagine how fucking dumb you’d have to be to fall for his bullshit a third time, after all the corruption, COVID mismanagement, J6 coup, felony convictions, Epstein shit, etc. Imagine still thinking that this NYC elite billionaire real estate mogul who just learned what “groceries” are is on your side. He ran on affordability, attributed his win to his focus on affordability, and is now claiming that affordability is made-up bullshit that the “communists” are flinging to criticize him.

          Trump is a stupid motherfucker, just about as stupid as I can imagine a person being, and yet millions of people are possibly even more fucking stupid for continuing to support him. I just don’t understand how such a level of stupidity could be possible.

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    I need reverse surgery. My dick is too big. I need another to keep it company. I wanted Trump to pay for it, but he also wanted to remove my anus, and I’m not comfortable with that, because I need to eat, too, and food turns to poop, and if I don’t have a butthole I won’t be able to poop, and therefore won’t be able to eat, which is unreasonable.