Trump celebrates end to ‘transgender insanity’ with thousands at CPAC

Washington D.C., Feb 22, 2025 / 17:39 pm (CNA).

U.S. President Donald Trump celebrated an end to what he called “transgender insanity” during his Feb. 22 speech to the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference.

Thousands of conservatives gathered for the annual three-day conference, which was largely themed around Trump and his wide-ranging agenda. Many speakers, including Trump, took a celebratory approach to his 2024 comeback victory and the electoral “mandate” Trump received to govern according to his campaign agenda.

“It’s all out now — critical race theory and transgender insanity,” Trump declared, referring to his executive actions to curtail gender ideology in public life. 

“It’s all gone from our schools and from our military and I believe it’s gone too,” the president said. “…I believe that it’s all gone.”

Since taking office, Trump has banned biological men from women’s sports in K-12 and college athletics, prohibited transgender surgeries on children, halted schools from facilitating social gender transitions for children, and ended transgender-related anti-discrimination mandates imposed by former President Joe Biden’s administration on private entities.

“I made it the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female,” Trump said. “That was easy.” 

The president recounted his various executive actions on gender ideology and said, “Can you imagine making a speech like this 10 years ago?” 

“People would say what the hell is he talking about, right?” Trump said. “This is a sickness that came with critical race theory and all of the other things we had to put up with.”

During his speech, Trump also criticized Gov. Janet Mills of Maine, who helped lead a lawsuit against Trump’s ban on biological men in women’s sports in K-12 and college athletics.

“She’s fighting to keep men in women’s sports,” Trump said. “You ever see what happens to a woman when a woman boxes with a man who transitioned to womanhood? Did you ever see what happens? It’s not pretty.”

The country’s 47th president claimed opposition to biological men in women’s sports is “like a 90-10 issue and I can’t figure out who the 10% are — nobody can.”

Trump also celebrated the release of 23 pro-life activists who he pardoned within his first week in office. Trump said the activists, many of whom received years in prison for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, were “political prisoners.”

During the annual conference, many speakers promoted Trump’s policy agenda on various issues, including gender ideology, school choice, immigration, and the economy.

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