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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Justin Baragona

MAGA lawmaker calls to forcefully mass institutionalize trans people: ‘We have to get them off the streets!’

Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) is now proposing that transgender people be mass institutionalized because “this is a cancer that's spreading across this country” and we “have to get them off the streets,” all while claiming that trans women “have an underlying level of aggressiveness.”

The MAGA lawmaker’s remarks come as conservatives are ramping up their anti-transgender rhetoric in the wake of the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, whose alleged shooter has a roommate and romantic partner who is currently transitioning genders.

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