Trump tells trans-identified males 'you can never become a woman'

Speaking at a White House event on Wednesday afternoon celebrating Women’s History Month, President Donald Trump, who has spearheaded protecting women’s spaces in his second time around at the White House, said that trans-identified males "can never become a woman."

"No matter how many surgeries you have or chemicals you inject, if you’re born with male DNA in every cell of your body, you can never become a woman. You’re not gonna become a woman," Trump said, which garnered cheers from the audience inside the White House. 

"And that’s why last month, I proudly signed a historic executive order to ban men from competing in women’s sports, and it was very popular," he added.

During his speech, Trump honored the legacies of American women across history, including Betsy Ross, Harriet Tubman, Susan B Anthony, Clara Barton, and Amelia Earhart, "all legends," he said. Trump also honored the women who are serving in his White House, including Susie Wiles, Karoline Leavitt, Alina Habba, Pam Bondi, Brooke Rollins, and Linda McMahon.

Trump said that there are "more women in our cabinet than any Republican president in the history of our country."

Speaking on the prior Biden administration that came before him, Trump said, "For four long years, we had an administration that tried to abolish the very concept of womanhood and replace it with radical gender ideology. Maybe you heard something about that. They destroyed women's spaces and even tried to replace the word mother with the term birther person, the mother became a birther person. What's that all about? 

Trump noted that he had seen on television a Democrat fighting to keep trans-identified males in women’s sports. "I said, this guy is going to lose. He's going to lose badly. The whole party is still into that. They haven't learned, we don't want him to learn, frankly, we want him to keep fighting. Let's not tell him under the Trump administration, we're ending the Marxist war on women, and you had a war on women, and we're protecting women's rights, defending women's dignity, and standing up for the American moms and daughters, so many are represented here. Great people in this room. American women have never had bigger champions than all of us in the White House."