Donald Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance says “normal” gay men will vote for Trump as the next President of the USA because they “just want to be left the hell alone.”
The Vice Presidential nominee made the claim during a three hour long interview on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast which was released on Thursday.
The extensive interview saw Vance discussing a wide range of topics including his love of the TV show Emily in Paris and how he reacted when he heard that his running mate had been wounded during an assassination attempt.
During the long conversation Vance said he expected to get the support of “normal” gay guys.
“Frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised if me and Trump won just the normal gay guy vote, because again, they just want to be left the hell alone,” he said.
He went on to say he believed many gay men were opposed to transgender youth being given medical treatment.
The description of “normal” gay guys sparked a wave of online commentary mocking Vance’s words.
Elsewhere in the long interview Trump’s running mate suggested that middle-class kids were identifying as trans as a way to reject their “white privilege” and gain easier access to college education.
“If you are a middle-class or upper-middle-class white parent, and the only thing that you care about is whether your child gets into Harvard or Yale, obviously that pathway has become a lot harder for a lot of upper-middle-class kids.” Vance said.
Ge then went on to say being transgender was a “social signifier” that allowed people to participate with diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
“The one way those people can participate in the DEI bureaucracy in this country is to be trans. If you become trans that is a way to reject your white privilege.”
During the election campaign the conservative groups have run millions of dollars of ads targeting issues relating to transgender people.
Transgender wrestler threatens legal action against Senator Ted Cruz
Wrestler Mack Beggs has spoken out against an advertisement from Republican senator Ted Cruz which uses his image without permission.
Beggs, who is transgender, says the advertisement is misleading. The advertisement featuring footage of Beggs accuses Cruz’s Democratic rival of “failing to protect women’s sports” by allowing “boys to compete with girls”
Beggs however was never allowed to participate in the sport as a boy. While he wanted to take part in the male category, officials forced him to remain in the female category arguing that he could only compete in the category of his birth gender.
I’m definitely going to take legal action,” Beggs told Lonestar Live. “It’s a false narrative and defamation. The Republican Party messed up and they know what they’re doing. You can’t just go around throwing around false narratives when this is what y’all asked for.”
