(breitbart) – Former Vice President Joe Biden said during a town hall hosted by ABC News on Thursday night that eight-year-olds should be allowed to decide that they are transgender.
Mieke Hacke, a voter from Pennsylvania, asked Biden the following āquestionā:
Haeck: Iām the proud mom of two girls, eight and ten. My youngest daughter is transgender. The Trump administration has attacked the rights of transgender people, banning them from military service, weakening nondiscrimination protections, and even removing the word ātransgenderā from some government websites. How will you, as president, reverse this dangerous and discriminatory agenda and ensure that the lives and rights of LGBTQ people are protected under U.S. law?
Biden: I will flat-out just change the law. Eliminate those executive orders, number one. You may recall, Iām the guy who said ā I was raised by a man who, I remember, I was being dropped off, my dad was a high school-educated, well-read man who was a really decent guy, and I was being dropped off to get an application in the center of our city, Wilmington, Delaware, the corporate capital of the world at the time, and these two men are getting out to get an application to be a lifeguard in the African-American community, because there was a big swimming pool complex. And these two men, well-dressed, leaned up and hugged one another and kissed one another. Iām getting out of the car at the light, and I turned to my dad, andmy dad looked at me, he said, Joey, itās simple. They love each other. The idea that an 8-year-old child, a 10-year-old child, decides, you know, I want to be transgender, thatās what I think Iād like to be, itād make my life a lot easier ā there should be zero discrimination. And whatās happening is, too many transgender women of color are being murdered. Theyāre being murdered. I mean, I think itās up to now 17, donāt hold me to that number. But ā itās higher now?
Haeck: Yes.
Biden: And thatās just this year. And so, I promise you, there is no reason to suggest that there should be any right denied your daughter or daughters, whichever, one or two ā
Haeck: One.
Biden: ā oneyour daughter, that your other daughter has a right to be and do. None. Zero. And by the way, my son, Beau, passed away, was the attorney general of the State of Delaware. he was the guy that got the first transgender law passed in the state of Delaware and because of a young man who became a woman, who worked for him in the attorney generalās office. And Iām proud of that.
Beau Biden, who was the attorney general of Delaware, supported the stateās non-discrimination law, though he did not technically pass it himself.
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