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On Monday, a clip of Joe Biden’s upcoming appearance on the Daily Show started circulating online where the President suggested the way to protect “transgender kids” was to “pass legislation like we passed on same sex marriage.”
“Ah transgender kids is a really harder thing. What’s going on in Florida is, as my mother would say, close to sinful,” Biden said. “I mean, it’s just terrible what they’re doing. It’s not like, you know, a kid wakes up one morning and says, ‘you know, I decided I want to become a man or I want to become a woman or I want to change.'”
“I mean, what, what are they thinking about here? They’re human beings. They love, they have feelings, they have inclinations that are I mean, it just to me is, I don’t know, it’s cruel,” Biden said to guest host Kal Penn. “And the way we do it is we make sure we pass legislation like we passed on same sex marriage.”
In December 2022, Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act, which legalized same-sex marriage and interracial marriage in the United States, despite neither being illegal prior to the Act’s passing.
During the signing ceremony, Biden said there were “hundreds of callous and cynical laws introduced in the states, targeting transgender children, terrifying families, and criminalizing doctors who give children the care they need.”
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