Vance suggests upper- and middle-class children become “transsexual” for college admissions and says Trump could get “the vote of a regular gay guy.”

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Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance suggested in an interview with podcast host Joe Rogan that aired Thursday that upper- and middle-class white children have an incentive to identify as transgender in order to gain entry to elite colleges.

“Think about the incentives,” Vance said. “If you're a middle-class or upper-middle-class white parent and all you care about is whether your child goes to Harvard or Yale, of course that path has become much more difficult for many of upper-middle-class children, but the The only way these people can participate in the DEI bureaucracy in this country is by being trans, and is there a dynamic that says that if you become trans, you are rejecting your person in that way, white privilege .”

“That’s the social signifier. The only option available in the hyper-woke mindset is to become gender neutral,” the Ohio senator added.

Studies have found that students who identify as transgender are much less likely to access higher education in general, let alone an Ivy, due to the discrimination, harassment, and lack of support they typically experience in earlier grades. League school that is difficult compared to those people who identify with the gender that corresponds to the gender they were assigned at birth.

Describing a friend as a “gay Reagan Democrat” who rejects the ideology of progressive politicians, Vance said he believed the Trump-Vance ticket could bring in what he called a “normal gay vote.”

“Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if me and Trump just won the normal gay election because they just wanted to be left alone,” Vance said.

Vance also described a conversation he had during a congressional delegation trip to the Paris Air Show with a “very conservative” woman from Mississippi about how she believed Paris was more conservative than some cities in the United States and how she had the genitals of one man in a miniskirt.

“Oh my God, that’s not empowerment. Lifestyle choices are not respected. “We’re letting a grown man walk around in a miniskirt in broad daylight,” Vance said. “If you do that, you’re a pervert. And I want, I want all of us to say, whatever your political persuasion, just say, “No, that's weird, right?” “It's not allowed in the middle of the largest city in the world or America Walking down the street and kids popping out,” Vance said.

Vance also said he believes most Americans are open-minded about what he called “lifestyle choices” but about transgender people Athletes taking part in competitions In women's sports you cross a line.