President Donald Trump proclaimed that “wokeness is gone” during his joint address to Congress, on Tuesday night.
Speaking to a bipartisan crowd in the US Capitol building, Trump focused his administration’s early efforts to roll back “wokeness” in the U.S, talking aim at gender-affirming” for minors.
“I want Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children, and forever”, Trump said during his speech.
“Ending the lie that any child is trapped in the in the wrong body. This is a big lie. And now a message to every child in America is that you are perfect, exactly the way God made you.
“Because we are getting wokeness out of our schools and out of our military, and it’s already out and it’s out of our society.
“We don’t want it. Wokeness is trouble. Wokeness is bad. It’s gone”.
Trump comments come over a month after he signed an executive order to restrict “chemical surgical” sex-change procedures for minors.
“Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and force claim that adults can change a child sex’s through series of irreversible medical interventions”, the order, entitled ” Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation”
“This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end”, he stated.
-9News Nigeria.
