Crockett asks witness to play 'Trump or trans' game in House hearing
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) asked a witness in a House hearing on transgender athletes Wednesday to play a game of “Trump or trans.”
“This hearing has nothing to do with improving government efficiency,” Crockett said during the Delivering on Government Efficiency subcommittee meeting. “It’s another attempt by Republicans to distract from their demonic and disastrous policies that are making it more difficult for Americans to make ends meet.”
“So, Miss Goss Graves, I want to play a game,” she added. “It’s called Trump or trans, you ready?
“OK,” National Women's Law Center CEO Fatima Goss Graves responded.
Crockett then told Goss Graves that she would ask questions and wanted Goss Graves to tell her "whether or not it is Trump or trans people that are responsible.” Shortly after, the Texas Democrat began firing off a series of questions including who was behind “gutting medical research,” raising “the cost of everything,” and conducting “an idiotic tariff war.”
Goss Graves answered with President Trump’s name to every single question Crockett asked.
Trump’s administration has targeted the transgender community through multiple actions during the first few months of his second term, including by signing an executive order in January recognizing male and female as the only two sexes and directing federal agencies to stop promoting the concept of gender transition.
“As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female,” Trump said in his inaugural address earlier this year.
Attorney General Pam Bondi also ordered gender-affirming care procedures for youth to be investigated in a memo from late last month.
“Gender ideology, masked as science, teaches that children should process adolescent stress and confusion as a case of mistaken identity and that the solution is not to root out and eliminate the underlying condition but to acquiesce in it permanently through life-altering chemical and surgical intervention,” Bondi said in her memo.
The Hill has reached out to the White House and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee for comment.