I cried when Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 – but here’s why I’m now voting for Trump

While the Democrats continue to appeal to identity politics and fear-mongering – telling Americans they are in danger of losing their democracy, claiming women will lose their rights and saying to anyone who will listen that Trump is going to instil a fascist dictatorship – regular working-class people want to know about their jobs and how to feed their families. People want to feel safe in their own cities, which means moving past “harm reduction” and open-air drug markets, and women like me want their free speech rights protected and their sex-based autonomy back.

These are not small things, and they are all issues that the Democrats have made significantly worse.

Over the past four years, the Democrats censored people who dissented against Covid-19 mandates, who insisted that men could not change sex and that women deserved protection for their sex-segregated spaces, and who argued against the transitioning of children. Sex trafficking has skyrocketed under the Democrats’ watch, including the trafficking of migrant minors. Addiction and crime has run rampant as “defund the police” activists appear to have gotten their way, and violent criminals are left to their own devices. The Covid-19 edicts ensured millions fell into poverty and that children fell behind socially and academically. We saw Democrats move to “censor” Covid-19 dissidents and online content challenging government-sanctioned narratives during the pandemic – including information about the vaccine – and have yet to see any accountability for that. 

Title IX, a 1972 law prohibiting sex discrimination in schools that receive federal funding and represented a huge win for women’s rights by second wave feminists, was effectively destroyed, along with protections for female sports. Meanwhile, men are being transferred into women’s prisons to prey on some of the most vulnerable in the country. The lives of countless young people are being destroyed via so-called “gender medicine” and sex-change surgeries. And male predators are permitted to waltz into female changing rooms knowing that nothing can be done to stop them.

Concern about these issues does not amount to bigotry – they have created immense harm for millions of people and were caused by the Democrats. I know this better than anyone, having been on the other end of endless cancellation campaigns and protests since 2015, for speaking out about the dangers of gender identity ideology — particularly as it impacts women and girls.

The question of men in women’s sport is of particular note in this election, having watched male athletes beat and even injure female counterparts, unimpeded by a Democratic Party who insists it is the right of boys to compete as girls if they desire to. Under the Democrats, women have had to take matters into their own hands, and female athletes such as Brooke Slusser, the co-captain of the San Jose State University Volleyball team, have joined a lawsuit against the Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) by citing Title IX. The so-called “women’s party” have not only expressed zero concern for the girls fighting this on their own, but the Biden administration was responsible for adding “gender identity” to Title IX law, eroding women’s sex-based protections in colleges and universities.