Ron DeSantis, has gone even further, making laws attacking LGBTQ inclusion, especially in schools, into a core plank of his “anti-woke” governing agenda. In January, Donald Trump released a campaign video decrying “the left-wing gender insanity being pushed on our children.” He vowed that, in a second term, his administration would work to ban gender-affirming care for minors “in all 50 states,” officially recognize “male” and “female” as “assigned at birth” as the only genders, and reconfigure school curriculums to teach students “positive education about the nuclear family the roles of mothers and fathers.” Trump’s leading competitor for the 2024 nomination, Florida Gov. “While you guys struggle to stop drag queens from twerking on the laps of toddlers, they stop it before it starts.” The attacks on Cruz were a sign of the times for American conservatism, which is currently in the grips of a renewed and increasingly vicious anti-LGBTQ fervor.
“Unlike the lawmakers in Texas, the Uganda government recognizes that if you give an inch, the LGBTQ Mafia will take a mile,” wrote Lauren Witzke, the 2020 GOP Senate candidate in Delaware. The law imposed strict criminal penalties for same-sex relations - including execution for “serial offenders” who commit “aggravated homosexuality.” Cruz, quite reasonably, condemned Uganda’s law as “grotesque and an abomination.” Almost immediately, Cruz faced a wave of criticism from prominent conservative accounts with large followings. Ted Cruz (R-TX) sent a tweet criticizing a draconian new anti-LGBTQ law in Uganda.
Schaben / Los Angeles Times / Getty Images The American right is returning to its homophobic roots. Protestors outside a Glendale Unified School District meeting on teaching sexual identity to kids in Glendale, California on June 6, 2023.
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