Former U.S. Olympic cyclist Inga Thompson admits that she used to "hate" President Donald Trump until he became one of the few voices protecting women in sports from gender-confused men, the Daily Caller reported. Trump made steps to make good on his promise during his first day in office.
Trump was sworn into office on Monday in large part because of the pledge he made to stop the so-called transgender movement in its tracks. His promise was enough to get people like Thompson to change their minds about him.
"The first time he was up for election, I was making fun of him," recalled Thompson. "This time around, my position is, ‘If he’s going to protect women, I will vote for him,'" Thompson shared in an interview with The Telegraph.
"This is the biggest threat to women that I can think of happening in my generation. And I have to vote for women," she said.
Thompson initially did not expect to side against the Democratic Party. "I don’t want my boyfriend to hear this, because we’re both Democrats," she said.
"I used to hate Trump because I come from Reno, Nevada, around the casinos. I grew up with a lot of people who were in gaming, and we hated Trump. I knew people who would make deals with him, then he would back out," Thompson explained.
That changed for her when Trump took on the issue near and dear to her heart while the Democrats leaned into the idea that men could compete against women in the name of equality. Thompson said there were signs that this was a losing position, but Democrats ignored them.
"Did they not learn their lesson at the Olympics about how tone-deaf they are, how blind they are about what they’re doing to women? I’m angry at the party, being a Democrat myself, that they continue to throw women under the bus," Thompson said.
"It would have been so easy for them to allow common sense to come back. But they won’t. It’s the final straw," she added.
Trump made good on his promise on Inauguration Day with an executive order that acknowledges there are only two genders, the New York Post reported. While it doesn't specifically address the problem of men in sports, it goes a long way to correcting the insanity.
"What we’re doing today is defining that it is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes: male and female. These are sexes that are not changeable, and they are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality," a newly-minted Trump White House official said.
"Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women’s domestic abuse shelters to women’s workplace showers. This is wrong," the order says, according to CBS News.
"Efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being. The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American system. Basing Federal policy on truth is critical to scientific inquiry, public safety, morale, and trust in government itself," it added.
Trump is wildly popular because he is on the side of sanity. The left tried to turn women against him, but his commitment to holding the traditional line on this issue has been a game-changer.
