When Graham appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program afterward, she attempted to recover by pivoting from her lack of national security knowledge to transgender athletes, as The Advocate reported.

“Of course, Taiwan is our friend,” Graham said. “But I think people in South Carolina are more worried about making ends meet. They are concerned about boys in girls’ sports.”

Trump continued that strategy Friday by making transgender people a central part of his argument for Graham. He attacked Andrews as a “far-left political hack who supports transgender for everybody” and accused her of telling “confused children they’re trapped in the wrong body.”

Trump may have conflated those medical procedures with agreements his Justice Department has forced on two major hospital systems. Those settlements require Texas Children’s Hospital and the Cleveland Clinic to establish or fund services for people who voluntarily seek to detransition. They do not order hospitals to perform surgery on anyone.

In May, Texas Children’s agreed to pay the state $10 million, end gender-affirming care for minors and establish what federal officials called the country’s first “restorative care” clinic for detransitioners. The Houston hospital also agreed to terminate five physicians connected to its transgender health program and permanently revoke their privileges, as The Advocate reported.

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    I saw a guy at Home Depot today with a shirt that said “if genders confuse you, try milking a bull” and I’m like, first off that’s essentially what we are good at but also, this guy’s so wrapped up in culture wars that don’t actually affect him, he’s wearing a shirt about jerking off farm animals in public, and that seems OK to him. It’s well past the point of parody anymore and it can only collapse as people tune it all out like any other odd fad.

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      If bulls are anything like people, well, put the bull on HRT for a couple of years and you might be able to milk it. Trans women can lactate breast milk that’s nutritionally identical to cis women’s.

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      you have to keep cows pregnant to milk them. If he was to attempt to milk a non pregnant cow his paradigm of milkable would collapse.

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        To be pedantic he didn’t say that all cows could be milked, just that no bulls could be.

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      They are brainwashed nutjobs who are exposed to propaganda 24/7. They have no life without it now, that’s why it’s their entire identity.

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      He is also broadcasting that he is the one that is confused by the idea of gender.

      Also: imagine being such a fucking asshole about culture war bullshit that you’d not only waste money on buying a stupid shirt like that but wearing it in public.

      The only way it’d get any more obvious is if they started literally printing up shirts that said “The Tribe That Rubs Shit In Their Hair” and started wearing those.

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      he’s wearing a shirt about jerking off farm animals in public, and that seems OK to him

      Maybe it’s something he thinks about a lot, and this is his way of coping with the cognitive dissonance.