Brooke Migdon

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Journalist covering the intersection of gender, sexuality and politics | prev @thehill.com | find me on signal @ bmigdon.84 | she/her

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It's really, I think our people want common sense applied to their life, and they don't want to see a girl be beat up in a boxing ring by a man, as happens. They don't want to see somebody in a weight lifting contest, a woman against a man. It makes no sense. They don't want to see, you know, men playing in women's sports. They don't. They don't want to see all of this transgender, which is, it's just taken over.
It's really, I think our people want common sense applied to their life, and they don't want to see a girl be beat up in a boxing ring by a man, as happens. They don't want to see somebody in a weight lifting contest, a woman against a man. It makes no sense. They don't want to see, you know, men playing in women's sports. They don't. They don't want to see all of this transgender, which is, it's just taken over.
Last question on the trans issue. Will you reverse Biden's protections for trans kids under Title Nine? I'm going to look at it very closely. We're looking at it right now. We're gonna look at it. We're gonna look at everything. Look, the country is torn apart. We're gonna look at everything.
It was a big issue, though, on the campaign. I mean, one of the ads that your campaign put the most money behind was the: Trump is for us and Harris is for they / them. Well, it's true, Trump is for us. Right. It obviously strikes a chord. I mean, Trump is definitely for us, okay? And us is the vast, vast majority of people in this country. And also, I want to have all people treated fairly. You know, forget about majority or not majority. I want people to be treated well and fairly.
But on that note, there’s a big fight on this in Congress now. The incoming trans member from Delaware, Sarah McBride, says we should all be focused on more important issues. Do you agree? I do agree with that. On that—absolutely. As I was saying, it's a small number of people.
Can I shift to the transgender issue? Obviously, sort of a major issue during the campaign. In 2016, you said that transgender people could use whatever bathroom they chose. Do you still feel that way? When was that? In 2016. I don’t want to get into the bathroom issue. Because it's a very small number of people we're talking about, and it's ripped apart our country, so they'll have to settle whatever the law finally agrees. I am a big believer in the Supreme Court, and I'm going to go by their rulings, and so far, I think their rulings have been rulings that people are going along with, but we're talking about a very small number of people, and we're talking about it, and it gets massive coverage, and it's not a lot of people.
“As someone who has served for over 20 years now and is involved in the decision-making process at senior levels for the morale, health, welfare, training, readiness and equipping of service members to prepare them to go to war — or, in certain cases, while in conflict — I cannot link those two things,” the Air Force chief, “J,” told The Hill. “I don’t understand how he comes to terms with that because, in my mind, that doesn’t make sense at all. Taking away something that families are relying on distracts us from the mission and the task at hand in order to be and remain as lethal as we are,” said “J,” whose teenage daughter is transgender and receives medical care that is currently covered under TRICARE.