<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis slammed transgender ideology this week when asked about ongoing controversies involving the hot-button topic.</p>
<p>The governor, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ron-desantis-drops-the-hammer-on-bud-light-over-transgender-controversy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> Bud Light&#8217;s decision to partner with transgender-identifying influencer Dylan Mulvaney, took a shot at the transgender movement as a whole when asked if it represented an &#8220;an existential threat to women.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;A total fraud,&#8221; DeSantis said in a video posted to Twitter on Tuesday. &#8220;I mean you have a swimmer that competes on the men&#8217;s team for three years at Penn and then switches to the women&#8217;s team and then wins the 500-yard freestyle national championship for women. When you&#8217;re a mediocre male swimmer and now you win the women&#8217;s, and so you had a second-place finisher, she was actually from Sarasota, she should have been the national champion.&#8221;</p>
<p>DeSantis&#8217; remarks were in reference to Lia Thomas, a male who claims to be female, who beat Emma Weyant, a woman, in the 2022 NCAA championships 500-yard race.</p>
<p>&#8220;I did a proclamation from our office saying she was the best woman swimmer in the 500 yard because she was,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;That swimmer was not the best women&#8217;s 500-yard champion, okay? The number two [swimmer] was the best woman, so that&#8217;s just the bottom line.&#8221;</p>
<p>DeSantis, perhaps foreshadowing something that might be a key theme of a potential presidential campaign, said that the larger issue was the truth.</p>
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<p>&#8220;And so some of this is yes, it&#8217;s taking away opportunities, and athletics and some other stuff, and that&#8217;s really, really important,&#8221; the 44-year-old governor said. &#8220;But I think there&#8217;s also just the issue of, are we going to be a society based on truth? Or are we going to be a society based on deceit? And if you take a man and they dress up as a woman, and you tell me, I have to accept that they&#8217;re a woman, then you&#8217;re asking me to be complicit in a lie, and I just refuse to do that. So we&#8217;ve got to tell the truth. I think the truth will set you free.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">“If you take a man and they dress up as a woman and you tell me I have to accept that they’re a woman, then you&#39;re asking me to be complicit in a lie,” @RonDeSantisFL tells <a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bennyjohnson</a>. </p>
<p>“I refuse to do that.”</p>
<p> <a href="https://t.co/NAf59F7zDA">pic.twitter.com/NAf59F7zDA</a></p>
<p>&mdash; DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoom/status/1648415887270051840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2023</a></p></blockquote>

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