Trump Isn Saying No To The Trans War On Reality

Early this week, New York Times opinion columnist Masha Gessen penned a piece purportedly exposing “The Hidden Motive Behind Trump’s Attacks on Trans People.” Unsurprisingly, the Trump policies Gessen sees as proof of an insidious Trumpian plot are reality-based measures that protect women and children and preserve American culture.

Gessen begins her supposed exposé by bemoaning the “current, protracted bad-news moment” and its repercussions for her “personally” as someone who is “trans and an immigrant.” She then moves quickly to comparing the United States to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. As the essay continues, Gessen’s contention becomes clear: Trump’s “barrage of attacks on trans people” is central to his “denationalization campaign,” which he pursues ostensibly so he can then deport them or implement a more fiendishly Hitlerian purpose.

Gessen likens trans people in America to Jews in Europe during the Holocaust and tells the story of a “nonbinary” friend who felt the need to hide her Star of David necklace when an alleged “attacker” questioned whether she was “a girl or a boy,” implying a link between antisemitism and traditional, biology-based views of sex. In other words, the United States has become like 1930s Germany, and those who refuse to accept the left’s gender ideology are the 21st century’s Nazis.

As evidence, Gessen cites