Trump says he could do without transgender “mutilization

Sex-change procedures on minors must end. At a South Carolina speech, Rapid Response 47’s Oct. 21 post on X attributed these words to President Donald Trump: “You see, they're into transgender mutilization. Me personally? I could do without it.” Me personally? I could do without it.” The post linked the remark to what it called “Radical Left lunatics” interrupting his speech.”¹

“You see, they're into transgender mutilization.”

That line came from a rally in Pendleton held two weeks before the Nov. 3 election to boost Sen. Darline Graham, the Republican nominee². Trump spoke in a Clemson University livestock arena, the T. Ed Garrison Arena. Graham faces Democrat Annie Andrews, a pediatrician, in a race the Cook Political Report moved from solidly Republican to likely Republican, CNN reports⁴. Early voting had begun Oct. 19. Graham told the crowd, “Y’all, this is close.”³

Several protesters interrupted the event, and security escorted them from the arena, WCSC reported⁵.

Before Trump spoke, Sen. Tim Scott said Republican ads on transgender issues had pushed Andrews into recording a statement that she is against “biological men playing women’s sports” and hadn’t performed “gender surgery for minors.”³ CNN reports that Andrews previously supported hormone treatment for children but has said she does not support gender-identity surgery for minors. ==CNN also reports that Andrews has said she does not support gender-identity surgery for minors{#rpot-011}. Trump said Andrews advocates giving puberty blockers to young children=={#rpot-022}.

Trump closed his hour-and-a-half speech by promising laws that ban transgender girls from playing in girls’ sports and ban gender reassignment surgery for children³. Whether that promise becomes law will decide what a clinic may do to a child, and what a parent can stop.

Family Brief holds that sex-change procedures on minors must end, from surgery to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. Trump’s pledge³ is the right one, and Congress should write it into law. South Carolina voters should ask Andrews where she stands on hormones for children.

Sources

1. @RapidResponse47 on X, 2026-10-21: .@POTUS on the Radical Left lunatics interrupting his speech in South Carolina: "You see, they're into transgender mutilization. Me personally? I could do without it." 🤣 https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2113048468260344216/video/1, 2026-10-21
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