President Donald Trump mocked transgender people in front of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, whose child identifies as nonbinary. This happened during an Oval Office meeting that was meant to focus on trade relations but instead turned into a display of Trump’s culture war politics.
The session, held in the presence of reporters, was supposed to highlight renewed U.S.-Canada cooperation. But as The Independent reported, it “devolved into a political rally disguised as a routine press availability.” Trump repeatedly veered off topic to attack Democrats, the media, and transgender people, boasting, “We have strong borders. We have no men in women’s sports.
We’re not going to take your child away and change the sex of your child.” He continued, claiming Democrats had left America a dead country plagued by “men playing in women’s sports and transgender for everybody and windmills all over the place.”
Carney, seated beside him, remained silent — a restraint reflecting the stakes of Canada’s trade dependence on the U.S. Carney and his wife, economist Diana Fox Carney, have four children, including Sasha, a Yale graduate profiled in 2019 for using they/them pronouns and embracing nonbinary identity. Trump’s continued targeting of transgender people remains a central theme of his political brand.
