GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said it is not compassionate to affirm gender confusion but to consider their mental health and “figure out what is going wrong in that kid’s life.”
“When a kid is saying their gender doesn’t match their biological sex, they’re going through a mental health struggle — that’s a mental health condition,” Ramaswamy told conservative podcast host Allie Beth Stuckey. “And the compassionate thing is not to affirm that confusion. That’s not compassion; that’s cruelty. The compassionate thing to do is to figure out what is going wrong in that kid’s life.”
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When someone says they’re trans, it usually means *something else* is badly wrong in their life. Let’s abandon the farce that the “humane” thing to do is to affirm their confusion, rather than to actually help. It’s inhumane. pic.twitter.com/cKVRUnKuaq
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) August 16, 2023
“And the fact that that is now beyond the pale to even explore shows how far we’ve come as a culture,” the presidential candidate continued.
Ramaswamy continues to gain ground among Republican voters, with recent polling showing he is now only second to former President Donald Trump as his views regarding topics such as abortion, immigration, and gender identification resonate with conservatives.
“For the same reasons that we don’t let kids get in any one of the 50 states to get a tattoo before the age of 18 — to make a permanent, life-altering change to their body that they may later regret, we should not allow those children to make life-altering, gender mutilation, or chemical-castration-based changes to their bodies either,” Ramaswamy said. “It is inhumane. It is barbaric that we live in a culture that lets that happen to children.”
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Ramaswamy added that as president, he will “absolutely stand by the truth that there are two sexes.”
“There are men and there are women, XX and XY. That’s biological truth. We have to stand for the truth,” he said. “If you are an adult and you want to dress how you want, I’m not going to stop you, but you’re not going to change our language. You’re not going to change the way we compete in sports. You’re not going to change the way we sort locker rooms, and you’re certainly not going to change the way we indoctrinate our children. That’s where I stand on that.”
