US President Donald Trump was asked by a reporter to define ‘what a woman’ is at a public event on Friday March 28. The question came after Trump had announced Alina Habba as interim US attorney for the District of New Jersey.
There was a comment about the two parties
The reporter made a comment on what he views as a difference between the Democratic and Republican parties.
He directed at Trump the question, “Mr President… since Democrats seem to struggle answering this question… what is a woman and why is it important that we understand the difference between men and women?”
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Trump seemed more than happy to answer
The president seemed prepared with the answer, saying, “It’s sort of easy to answer for me, because a woman is somebody that can have a baby under certain circumstances… a woman is a person who is much smarter than a man I’ve always found.”
He went further with his answer
“A woman is a person who doesn’t give a man even a chance of success and a woman is a person that in many cases has been treated very badly,” the president added.
“What happens with this crazy issue of men being able to play in women’s sport is just ridiculous and very unfair to women and very demeaning to women, that’s got to be about a 94 percent issue,” he said.
Trump also threw in a comment about the other party
“I watched Democrat congressmen fighting for the fact that men should be allowed to compete in women’s sport, I said I hope they keep that going because they’ll never win an election,” Trump continued.
“Women are incredible, they do so much for our country. We love our women, we’re going to take care of our women.”
He signed an order to ban transgender women from women’s sports
An executive order banning transgender women from competing in women’s sports was signed by Donald Trump last month where he had said, “the war on women’s sports is over”.
“My administration will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes,” Trump had said at the time.
A couple of federal judges blocked another ban
While Trump tries to ban transgender people from participating in different activities, more recently, a second federal judge blocked his proposed ban on transgender people in the US military.
Last week District Judge Benjamin Settle said, “The government’s arguments are not persuasive, and it is not an especially close question on this record.”
The judge said there was ‘no evidence’ for this being an issue
“The government has… provided no evidence supporting the conclusion that military readiness, unit cohesion, lethality, or any of the other touchstone phrases long used to exclude various groups from service have in fact been adversely impacted by open transgender service. The Court can only find that there is none,” the judge said.
The order was also blocked earlier this month
The first judge who blocked the order was US District Judge Ana Reyes who ruled that it discriminates based on transgender status and sex and therefore violates an equal protection clause.
Talking about the ban, Judge Reyes said, “Its language is unabashedly demeaning, its policy stigmatizes transgender persons as inherently unfit, and its conclusions bear no relation to fact.”
The judge pointed out sacrifices in the military
“Indeed, the cruel irony is that thousands of transgender servicemembers have sacrificed – some risking their lives – to ensure for others the very equal protection rights the Military Ban seeks to deny them,” Judge Reyes said.
