'Consider this possibility—if President Trump were to say, I am now the first female president? Who would celebrate that?' Gaetz said during a Tuesday hearing.
Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz argued against the passage of the Equality Act, a policy that would ban discrimination against LGBTQ Americans, by saying the bill would allow President Donald Trump to declare himself the first female president.
“In the majority of states, people in the LGBTQ community can be fired from a job perhaps because of their sexual orientation or gender identity and would have no recourse,” said Senator Tammy Baldwin, a member of the LGBTQ community. “We want to live in a country that, you know, judges people based on their performance and their character, and so we need to pass the Equality Act at the federal level.
Representative Matt Gaetz talks with reporters before heading into a closed-door hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images During Tuesday’s hearing, Gaetz implied that he could not support the protections for the LGBTQ community because they “would only nominally protect certain individuals while causing tremendous harm to others.”
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