'Perfect exactly the way God made you': 7 highlights from Trump's address to a joint session of Congress
6. Trump asks Congress to ban 'sex changes on children'
Trump said that his administration is "working to protect our children from toxic ideologies in our schools" and introduced January Littlejohn, who sued her daughter's Florida school district after officials helped her 13-year-old "socially transition" and use they/them pronouns.
"Teachers and administrators conspired to deceive January and her husband while encouraging her daughter to use a new name and pronouns," Trump said. He identified Littlejohn as a "courageous advocate against this form of child abuse."
Trump pointed to "stories like this," referring to examples of schools working to keep parents in the dark about their children electing to adopt a new gender identity and pronouns at school, as the reason why he "signed an executive order banning public schools from indoctrinating our children with transgender ideology."
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He mentioned his executive order "to cut off all taxpayer funding to any institution that engages in the sexual mutilation of our youth."
"And now, I want Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children and forever ending the lie that any child is trapped in the wrong body," Trump declared. "This is a big lie."
He delivered a "message to every child in America," informing them, "You are perfect exactly the way God made you."
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
