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During a rambling two-hour speech in Phoenix, Arizona, on Saturday night, former President Donald Trump bizarrely mused about how basketball player LeBron James could get sex reassignment surgery.
Trump speculated that the Los Angeles Lakers star could "get the operation" in order to compete in women's sports, he said while speaking at the "Rally to Protect Our Elections."
Link to tweet
The former president joked that, as the coach of a women's sports team, he would only recruit transgender athletes. "If I were a coach, I wouldn't be talking to too many women as we know women," he said. "I'd be getting some of these people that ... they're 'women.'"
Trump then suggested that James might eventually choose to transition. "Somebody said that if LeBron James ever decided to get the operation, how would he be on the court? How would he be?" he mused.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-bizarrely-mused-lebron-100011714.html
Walleye
(31,017 posts)rsdsharp
(9,170 posts)He already dominates in the mens game.
KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)explain to me that the Democrats are trying to pass a law that the government can force people to have sex surgery. I sat there half expecting Allen Funt to hop out from behind a pole any second.
Faux pas
(14,672 posts)I think I was around 8 or 9 when it dawned on me that I didn't have to say EVERYTHING I thought. Sheesh.
WHITT
(2,868 posts)sick, twisted, demented whacko.
YoshidaYui
(41,831 posts)and always will be an @$$#0[3. He is mentally deranged and needs to be put away for his and our own good.
Initech
(100,068 posts)brush
(53,776 posts)Why in the hell is the thought of Lebron James getting a transgender operation to compete in womens' sports swirling about in his addled brain?
The man is obviously crazy, and getting crazier by the day. By the time the '24 presidential campaign season starts he'll be even worse.
Good luck with that, republcans.
chowder66
(9,067 posts)niyad
(113,288 posts)has ever indicated that he is considering such surgery?
TDale313
(7,820 posts)There are not a slew of men transitioning or pretending to be trans in order to gain an advantage in their sporting career. Its just not a huge problem were facing.
Also, no, straight cis men who want to assault women are not, in huge numbers, pretending to be female or trans so they can enter a ladies room. Generally, Im guessing the rapists arent actually gonna be stopped from entering a ladies room by a little plaque on the door anyway.
Gods, this shit is exhausting and seriously stupid. Just let people live their fucking lives. Why do they always have to go out of their way to make the lives of already marginalized peoples lives that much harder?
keithbvadu2
(36,788 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)BlueStater
(7,596 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)That speech could trigger WIC 5150 and cause him to be trundled off in a nice canvas suit with a butt full of Thorazine.
spanone
(135,831 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,290 posts)samsingh
(17,595 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)The subject of one of your drug-induced fever dreams? Stephen Miller?
meadowlander
(4,395 posts)A pro sports career is max 10-15 years of a 80-90 year lifespan. Who, except someone who is genuinely transsexual, is going to fork out tens of thousands of dollars for permanent hormone treatment and reassignment surgeries so they can make $75K a year playing in half empty stadiums?
LeBron makes $40 million a year now, BTW.
Iggo
(47,552 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)What if they start bombarding athletes with gamma rays, Don? Start turning them into Incredible Hulks? What about that, huh?