Joe Biden on Monday called the policy pursued by Florida, whose Gov. Ron DeSantis is a representative of the radical right, regarding transgender children “disgraceful” and “cruel.”
“My mom would say that what is happening in Florida is shameful. What they are doing is just terrible,” the US president said, according to an excerpt from an interview on the show. the daily program.
“It’s not like a kid woke up one day and said, ‘You know what? I’ve decided to be a man or a woman,'” Joe Biden said.
“They are human beings. They have feelings. They have emotions (…) it seems cruel to me,” said the 80-year-old Democrat, who is increasingly showing signs of wanting to run again in 2024.
A strongly criticized law
Ron DeSantis, presented as a possible candidate for the Republican candidacy, defends very conservative positions when it comes to morality in particular.
The Florida College of Physicians has decided to prohibit transgender minors from accessing puberty blocking treatments, hormone use and surgery.
For his part, the governor is the promoter of a law strongly criticized and dubbed “Don’t say gay” (“Do not talk about gays”), which strongly restricts or even prevents the teaching in schools of subjects related to sexual orientation and gender.
Source: BFM TV
