During his campaign for president, Donald Trump, now president-elect of the United States, focused intensely on the woke folly which swept throughout the US over the last decade.
Some of his stated goals are ending sex reassignment surgeries on children, ending funding programs that promote the idea of sex reassignment among children, funding programs that support a traditional nuclear family consisting of mom and dad and emphasizing differences between men and women in schools across the country, and recognizing only both genders as legal.
Although the issue was not widely covered in Israel, a very large part of Trump's election campaign dealt in his final stretch with the pro-LGBT laws that the Democratic candidate might have passed if they had won. In fact, Trump reportedly spent tens of millions of dollars on advertising against Harris's pro-trans rights statements in the United States, and a significant portion of journalists tied his landslide victory in part for this move.
For example, about a month before the election, an article was published in the New York Times titled "Trump and Republicans Bet Big on Anti-Trans Ads Across the Country," which dealt with the alleged "gamble" Trump took on his considerable investment in the issue.
According to journalists' estimates at the time, the ad in which the Republican candidate spent the most money on the campaign was the one that aired under the headline "Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you," also dealt with this issue.
* Channel 14 contributed to this article.
