DeSantis Fires Back After Biden Calls Florida’s Trans Policies ‘Cruel’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hit back at President Joe Biden for his criticisms of the state’s efforts protecting children. “gender-affirming care” As “close to sinful” “cruel.”

“It is not ‘sinful’ to prohibit the mutilation of minors,” On March 14, the Republican Governor wrote a Tweet. “It is not acceptable for the federal government to mandate that procedures like sex change operations be allowed for kids.”

DeSantis was responding in kind to Biden’s remarks during a Comedy Central interview. “The Daily Show.”

“Transgender kids is a really harder thing,” Mr. Biden said. “What’s going on in Florida is, as my mother would say, close to sinful.”

“It’s just terrible what they’re doing,” Biden continued. “It’s not like a kid wakes up one morning and says, ‘You know, I decided I want to become a man’ or ‘I want to become a woman’ or ‘I want to change.’ I mean, what are they thinking about here? They are human beings. They love. They have feelings.”

Biden added, “It just, to me, is, I don’t know, it’s cruel.”

Biden did not however specify the policies or initiatives that he was criticizing in Florida.

Two Florida medical boards voted in November to ban doctors from prescribing hormones or puberty blocking drugs and performing sex change surgery on children under the age of 18.

The president appeared to suggest then that federal legislation was necessary to stop states taking action against minors engaging in sex.

“And the way we do it is we make sure we pass legislation like we passed on same-sex marriage,” Biden said. “You mess with that, you’re breaking the law, and you’re going to be held accountable.”

DeSantis ‘Speaks Truth’ 

DeSantis War Room, the governor’s rapid-response Twitter account, also responded to Biden’s remarks with a side-by-side video—with Biden’s comments next to graphic photos depicting scars left behind by transgender surgeries, including skin grafts and mastectomies.

“Biden thinks it’s ‘cruel’ that Florida is NOT allowing experimental sex change operations for kids,” It wrote in the tweet.

Bryan Griffin, governor’s press secretary called it “incredulous” These remarks would have been made by Biden.

“It is incredulous that the President of the United States attempts to make a moral argument FOR surgically altering children in the name of radical gender ideology,” Griffin posted on Twitter.

He continued, “Thankfully, @GovRonDeSantis speaks truth in response.”

DeSantis signed into law the Parental rights in Education Act in March 2022. It bans all classroom instruction regarding sexual orientation, from kindergarten through third grades.

Blaise, a Republican Florida state senator, introduced a bill that would have businesses pay for any transition care for their employees if the company had originally covered gender dysphoria treatment.

‘Leading Voice in the Defense of Innocent Children’ 

Other Republicans have also criticised Biden’s remarks.

“We will never allow Joe Biden to force taxpayer-funded castration surgeries on children. The left is targeting children with their extreme ‘gender ideology’ agenda, and parents must wake up and fight back to defend our kids!” posted Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.), who sits on the House Education and Labor Committee.

Mike Pompeo, a former secretary of State under the Trump administration, denounced Biden’s comments “madness.”

“There’s nothing compassionate about adults pushing kids to harmful ‘gender reassignment’ surgeries,” Pompeo wrote on Twitter.

CatholicVote, a Wisconsin-based advocacy group, was impressed by DeSantis’s reaction.

“Ron DeSantis joins Pope Francis as a leading voice in the defense of innocent children against Joe Biden and promoters of predatory gender ideology,” The group posted on Twitter.

The pope recently spoke out against gender theory in an interview with the Argentine newspaper La Nación.

“Gender ideology, today, is one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations,” According to a translation by Catholic News Agency published on March 11, he stated that he had said it. “Why is it dangerous? Because it blurs differences and the value of men and women.”

“All humanity is the tension of differences. It is to grow through the tension of differences,” The pope did not stop. “The question of gender is diluting the differences and making the world the same, all dull, all alike, and that is contrary to the human vocation.”