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Last Updated:March 05, 2025, 14:43 IST
During his joint address to Congress, Donald Trump called upon the House of Representatives to "permanently ban and criminalise sex change on children".
January Littlejohn was invited to attend Donald Trump's joint address to the US Congress | Reuters Image
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday acknowledged January Littlejohn, a Florida mom, who sued her daughter’s school, claiming they “socially transitioned" her child without parental consent.
During his address to a joint session of Congress, Trump called upon the House of Representatives to “permanently ban and criminalise sex change on children" as part of his campaign against “wokeness" in civil society and the military.
As news cameras turned to Littlejohn, Trump described how she and her husband discovered that their daughter’s school had secretly transitioned their 13-year-old daughter.
He explained that teachers and administrators had conspired to deceive January and her husband, encouraging their daughter to use a new name and pronouns—all without informing January.
January is a courageous advocate against this form of child abuse, Trump added.
She was invited to attend the joint address by First Lady Melania Trump to symbolise the “disaster" created by the previous administration, under Joe Biden.
Trump’s Another Special Guest
Another White House guest was Payton McNabb, who began speaking out against the inclusion of transgender girls in women’s sports after sustaining a brain injury during a high school volleyball game.
McNabb, a former high school girls’ volleyball player, was severely injured when a transgender in the opponent team allegedly spiked a ball in her face.
Addressing her, Trump said, “Payton, from now on, schools will remove men from girls’ teams, or they will lose all federal funding."
Trump had earlier signed an executive order that could withhold federal funding from schools permitting transgender girls to compete in girls’ sports. However, a proposed bill to amend civil rights law and prohibit such participation was defeated in the Senate on Monday.
Trump reiterated that his administration had ended the “tyranny" of diversity and inclusion programmes, and shared many such stories of common Americans present in the gallery who he said faced injustice sparked by such policies of the past.
“Every American child is perfect exactly the way god made you," Trump said with conviction.
“Our country will be woke no longer," he thundered in the first such address in his second term, one that was punctuated by huge roars by Republicans who cheered him on after the announcement of every “America first" step the President had taken.
Trump mentioned them by name in different parts of his address, and looked at them as the camera turned to them and they stood up. Glint in their eyes, they nodded at the camera amid thundering a applause.
The Democrats remained silent spectators though, occasionally booing and waving anti-Trump placards, a stark testimony to the deep fracture in American polity.
Location :United States of America (USA)
First Published:March 05, 2025, 14:43 IST
News world 'Not Woke Anymore': Trump Shares Stories Of Injured Female Athlete, Woman Whose Child Underwent Sex Change
