The president of the United States, Joe Biden, claimed this Wednesday that trans people deserve to be treated “with dignity and respect” in a message in which he regretted the “horrible attacks” suffered by the group. “There should be no place for hate in America, and yet too many transgender Americans, including young people, are cruelly persecuted and harassed simply for being themselves,” Biden said in a statement marking International Transgender Day of Remembrance. Transgender People. The president assured that under his mandate, which will end on January 20, when he will be replaced by Donald Trump, measures have been taken to “combat violence against transgender Americans.” “All Americans deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, and to live free of discrimination,” he stressed. Biden published his message on the same day that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Republican Mike Johnson, decided to veto access to the women’s bathrooms in Congress for the first trans legislator, Sarah McBride.
