White House Calls Out GOP For Not Condemning Right-winger’s Comments on ‘Eradicating’ Transgender Americans
White House Calls Out GOP For Not Condemning Right-winger’s Comments on ‘Eradicating’ Transgender Americans
Commentator Michael Knowles spoke at CPAC event
The White House is publicly shaming the Republican Party for its silence after a prominent online host and commentator on the hard-right recently called for “eradicating” anyone who is transgender.
Michael Knowles, host on the right-wing site Daily Wire, took center stage last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) gathering held just outside Washington DC, to demand the eradication of “transgenderism.”
During his speech last Saturday, Knowles told the crowd, “For the good of society … transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely — the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.”
Transgender Americans, including youth, are under attack by laws in Republican-led states which are increasingly making it illegal to openly exist as transgender.
The Biden White House condemned Republicans Friday for remaining silent after Knowles' speech.
“One thing that I wanted to share or speak to this afternoon is basically what we have seen these past couple of weeks. So I just want to take a step back a moment and really call out the shameful, hateful, and dangerous attacks that we have been seeing on the LGBTQI community as we’ve seen this week, as I said, and also last week,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during the regular press briefing. “Look, it started with a speaker at a conservative conference calling for the eradication of transgender people, language that not a single national Republican leader has condemned.
“In Iowa and Tennessee, Republicans are now calling for legislation to attack gay marriage and protections for same-sex couples. In Florida — just Florida alone — Republicans introduced 20 bills — 20 bills — on a single day to roll back the rights of LGBTQ community,” she added. “One of those bills would give the state the right to remove kids from their parents just because that kid is transgender.
“And just think about that. Just think about a kid who is sitting at home in this community who is listening and hearing elected officials talking about how they want to take away their rights or how they want to even threaten their parents with felony charges for seeking healthcare for their children,” Jean-Pierre said. “These kids are sitting at home having to listen to people, who are supposed to protect them and their freedom, saying these horrific, ugly, despicable things.”
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