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Trump Anti-Trans Education Order | This Patriotic Trans Woman Wants to Know: Would a ‘Patriotic Education’ Be Propaganda? And How Is Gender Identity ‘Anti-American?’

Alysha V. Scarlett
4 min readFeb 4, 2025

Is America’s president trying to foster the creation of propaganda (harmful misinformation) and highly discourage something that’s not anti-American? In an anti-transgender education order he made, U.S. President Donald Trump calls what seems clear to be propaganda a “patriotic education” and claims that gender identity is “anti-American.” I’m a patriotic transgender woman.

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U.S. President Donald Trump (photo credit: Donald J. Trump Presidential Campaign)

I believe that the United States is as awesome as any country in the world. Where it doesn’t care enough for its people, it makes up for in the opportunities it provides. Its heritage in terms of rebellion is also commendable.

Being a proud American, I was thus shocked to read in Trump’s anti-transgender executive order, “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,” that a “‘patriotic education’ (apparently) means a presentation of the history of America grounded in an … inspiring, and ennobling characterization of America’s founding and foundational principles … and the concept that…

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Alysha V. Scarlett
Alysha V. Scarlett

Written by Alysha V. Scarlett

Alysha has won 13 awards | Past: B/R, Screen Rant, Patch | Author, 'Star Wars' Is Still Intact | "big-city cousin" --rival, rural paper | "Journalist" --Google

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