Former President Donald Trump repeatedly lied while attacking transgender athletes and trans-inclusive school policies during his recent campaign speech in Tuscon, Arizona. He also expressed surprise at how his transphobic attacks always get the most audience applause.We will keep critical race theory and transgender insanity out of our school, he said. Its amazing. Its insane. You know that always gets the biggest applause. Its like a poll. Youre like a pollster. Youre like a free poll, I must say. Related The GOPs proposed national platform is extremely transphobic It also promises to protect Christians who discriminate against LGBTQ+ people. Can you imagine: Your child goes to school and they dont even call you and they change the sex of your child, he continued, repeating a lie he has often said. Your LGBTQ+ guide to Election 2024 Stay ahead of the 2024 Election with our newsletter that covers candidates, issues, and perspectives that matter. Subscribe to our Newsletter today Gender-affirming surgery is almost never performed on minors, and genital surgeries as part of a transition are never performed on minors. Schools are neither conducting surgeries on children nor forcing them to transition. Trumps campaign has said that it knows of no instance of this ever happening. Trump is lying.Trump then said, Another one that gets a big hand and its crazy: We will keep men out of women sports. How simple is that? Crude transphobia remains one of the biggest applause lines during Trump's speeches. In this clip, even Trump acknowledges he's surprised by how much his fans love it. pic.twitter.com/J80Z3LNRqx Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 12, 2024He then told numerous lies about Olympic athletes and transgender ones. He claimed that at the recent Olympic Summer Games, a beautiful young woman from Italy was fighting against a man who transitioned. He was referring to Imane Khelif of Algeria, a cisgender boxer who was assigned female at birth and identifies as a woman. Trump and numerous right-wingers lies about her genderwhich originated from a transphobic Russian boxing associationinspired widespread harassment and threats against her, compelling her to file a legal complaint for cyber harassment.He then referenced Laurel Hubbard, the female weightlifter who made history as the first out trans competitor in an individual Olympic sport. Hubbard didnt win after judges declared that she hadnt held the barbell steadily enough above her head. Trump noted this, saying, She couldnt get it up.He also imitated a weightlifting official greeting Hubbard, saying, Oh, good luck, sir. I mean, maam. He then referenced trans collegiate swimmer Lia Thomas, claiming that she broke an Olympic womens swimming record. His claim is incorrect: Thomas broke a womens 500-meter record established at Harvard Universitys Blodgett Pool in Boston by Kate Ziegler, a swimmer who later competed in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, but Thomas didnt break a womens Olympic record.Trump said Thomas looked Gigantic like [7-foot 1-inch Black professional basketball player] Wilt the Stilt Chamberlain on steroids. He then lied, claiming that one of Thomas competitors was seriously injured by a massive wind burn caused by Thomas swimming past her in the pool.He won by a lot, Trump said, misgendering Thomas. In fact, he was having lunch while the other young ladies were recovering. He was enjoying a nice lunch as the rest of them were swimming. How demeaning to women, right? Demeaning. How ridiculous. Trump is running on an extremely transphobic platformTrump has pledged to repeal all protections for trans students on day one if re-elected. He has also pledged to stop all gender-affirming care for minors nationwide.If re-elected, Trump is expected to follow Project 2025, a blueprint developed by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.Project 2025 calls for Trump to reinstate his transgender military ban; end educational, workplace, and healthcare protections for transgender people; and instruct Congress to define gender as male and female and fixed at birth. The plan would end all acknowledgment of trans people and gender identity.Elsewhere in his Tuscon speech, Trump claimed he won a monumental victory against Comrade Kamala in Tuesdays debate, and called the debate co-moderators nasty low-lives who should be fired for fact-checking his lies during the event. Numerous media figures, viewer polls, and Republicans have commented that Trump lost the debate. During his Tuscon address, Trump also bragged once more that he was endorsed by anti-LGBTQ+ Hungarian President Viktor Orbn, a anti-democratic leader considered a dictator by former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and others.He also said he will address the nations housing crisis by requiring all property owners recieving federal funds to refuse to rent to undocumented immigrants. He also repeated his racist lie that immigrants are eating peoples housepets. This lie has lead to bomb threats against government buildings, school closures, and increased harassment of immigrants.