Gavin Newsom Wants To Trans The Kids

Democrats are looking at 2028 and see Republican vulnerability.

What they see is a 2024 election that — while it was fairly solid as a win for Republicans in the Electoral College — was a pretty narrow win in the popular vote. They think that perhaps they can reverse the tide, perhaps take the White House in 2028 with someone like Gavin Newsom.

Thus, Democrats have shifted away from their 2024 failing strategy, taking the least popular parts of their agenda and moving those to the back burner.

We heard all about equity in the run-up to the 2020 election. It was the centerpiece of the Joe Biden campaign. In 2024, it was again the centerpiece of the late-breaking Kamala Harris campaign in 2024.

You no longer hear Democrats talking about equity each and every day the way that they were before. Instead, they are talking about “affordability.” The same thing is true about radical trans issues. The politics of transgenderism are awful for Democrats.

The vast majority of Americans believe that boys are boys and girls are girls, and boys cannot become girls, and attempts to brainwash children into the idea that they are, in fact, members of the opposite sex, or even could be members of the opposite sex, is perverse. Telling a young kid that you might have a girl’s brain in a boy’s body is not only gnostic and scientifically nonsensical, it is also terribly wrong to do that to children.

That was the general perception among Americans, and it drove huge numbers for President Trump. The single most effective ad of the 2024 campaign was on this issue from the Trump campaign, and suggested that Kamala was for transgenders while President Trump was for you.

If you talk to people in minority communities who swiveled from Democrat to Republican, this was a major issue because the trans issue — which affected a fairly small percentage of the population, went to fundamental truths about our society.

Could you trust people who told such a basic lie: that boys could be girls?

The answer was no.

So Democrats have decided that they are going to put that on the back burner. One of those Democrats was Gavin Newsom.

A few months ago, Gavin Newsom was doing a podcast with the late Charlie Kirk in which Charlie pressed Gavin Newsom on trans politics. Newsom admitted that boys should not be playing in girls’ sports, admitting that it was unfair.

But — the other day, Newsom — having been asked questions by members of the Democratic base and believing that he is the front runner for the 2028 Democratic nomination — did a podcast with Ezra Klein of The New York Times in which he was asked about his take on trans politics.

Now that Newsom believes that he has to win primaries in the Democratic Party as he prepares for that 2028 run, he swiveled back into a losing strategy for Democrats. 

“I want to see trans kids,” he proclaimed, continuing: “I have a trans godson. There’s no governor that’s done more pro-trans legislation than I have. No one has been a stronger advocate for the LGBTQ community.” 

The normie position is that there is no such thing as a trans kid. There are kids who may have gender dysphoria. That is a different thing. There is no such thing as a kid who is a boy in a girl’s body, or upon whom we should be performing hormonal therapies and surgeries that are utterly unscientific and permanently damaging to them.

So when Gavin Newsom says, “I want to see trans kids, there’s no governor that’s done more pro trans legislation than I have,” that creates a real awkwardness for the Democratic Party. 

This broke into the open because it precipitated a confrontation with Elon Musk.

America, a PAC founded by Musk, posted the video of Newsom, and it went viral. Gavin Newsom’s press office replied, referring to one of Musk’s sons who identifies as a woman, “We’re sorry your daughter hates you, Elon.”

It’s insane to get personal on these sorts of issues.

When I discuss these issues, I try not to get personal. The reason I try not to get personal is because once you’re into the emotional valence of somebody’s family, you have a problem.

A few years ago, I spoke at the University of British Columbia in Canada, and it was about this issue. A person got up who identified as a woman. He started personalizing the question, saying, “My family treats me as though I’m a girl.”

I replied, “You know, I would really appreciate it if we could keep this on the level of the philosophical and issue-based, because once we get into critiquing interpersonal relations, this is going to get very personal very quickly.”

This person kept insisting, ”No, I know that I’m a woman because my family treats me as a woman.” And I kept saying, “Please, I don’t want to talk about how your family treats you because that’s about your family. It’s about the broader issue, which is the question of public policy and how we ought to deal with these issues as a general society”.

But the person wouldn’t stop. Finally I said, “The reason that your family is saying to you that you are a woman and confirming you in your delusion is because they are afraid that you will do something bad to yourself, not because they actually believe that you are a woman. They do not believe that you are a girl. They know that you are not. They are trying to humor you because they’re afraid of what will happen if they do not.”

This person got extremely emotional and rushed out of the room. It was a perfect YouTube clip, but the reason you’ve never seen that on YouTube is because I went to the organizers of the event and asked them to remove that from the tape of the event, because I knew that this person was going to be damaged by that tape. It would have hurt him.

Not only that, I then found friends of the person and asked this person to come to breakfast the next morning with me to make sure this person was okay.

That’s because when you merge the personal and the political in this way, it gets really ugly, really quickly.

Gavin Newsom’s press office targeting Musk over his child was truly ugly stuff.

Musk then tweeted back, “I assume you’re referring to my son, Xavier, who has a tragic mental illness caused by the evil woke mind virus you push on vulnerable children. I love Xavier very much and hope he recovers. My daughters are Azure, Exa (she goes by Y) and Arcadia, and they do indeed love me very much.”

The fact that Newsom’s office went that low is really disgusting, and shows how the Democrats are going to run headlong into their own radicalism on this issue.

Newsom seems like he’s trying to avoid the issue altogether. But if he is dragged back into discussing this issue, and if Democrats keep making the same moral litmus test as to whether boys can be girls, especially minors, then they’re going to be in for a world of hurt.