President Joe Biden called political attacks on transgender youth “close to sinful” in an interview broadcast on The Daily Show Monday night, reports the Advocate.
Guest host Kal Penn asked Biden about when he became a supporter of marriage equality and what he thought about conservative states across the nation moving to restrict the rights of trans people, such as banning gender-affirming care for trans youth.
On the latter, Biden said, “What’s going on in Florida is, as my mother would say, close to sinful.” Florida is one of the latest states considering a ban on transition procedures for young people.
“It’s terrible what they’re doing,” he added. “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.’ What are they thinking about here? They are human beings. They love. They have feelings. They have inclinations that are… It just, to me, is, I don’t know is, it’s cruel.”
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