Transgender Politics: Trump’s Support of Gay Rights Not Enough

Donald Trump has always been what the Left would call an “ally” to gay people.

“If two people dig each other, they dig each other,” Trump wrote in 2005, wishing the best to Elton John and David Furnish on their civil partnership. In 2000, he told the gay magazine The Advocate that “it’s only fair” to update the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include a ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation. (Earlier this year, his Supreme Court pick Neil Gorsuch did exactly that in Bostock v. Clayton County, throwing in “gender identity” as well for good measure.) Throughout the 1980s and ’90s, Trump donated significant sums to AIDS charities.

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Madeleine Kearns

Madeleine Kearns is a former staff writer at National Review.

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Donald Trump has always been what the Left would call an “ally” to gay people.

“If two people dig each other, they dig each other,” Trump wrote in 2005, wishing the best to Elton John and David Furnish on their civil partnership. In 2000, he told the gay magazine The Advocate that “it’s only fair” to update the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include a ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation. (Earlier this year, his Supreme Court pick Neil Gorsuch did exactly that in Bostock v. Clayton County, throwing in “gender identity” as well for good measure.) Throughout the 1980s and ’90s, Trump donated significant sums to AIDS charities.