Vivek Ramaswamy says ‘LGBTQIA+ movement’ has become a ‘cult’: ‘It’s not about logic’
Heather Hamilton
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Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said the LGBTQIA+ movement is not “about logic” but has become “a cult.”
“Here’s my deal with this LGBTQIA+, especially the trans cult,” Ramaswamy told Hannity. “Dress how you want, behave how you want as an adult, live your life freely, but leave our kids alone and do not demand that we change our language or the way we live our lives. We can all live peaceably that way.”
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“In the name of rights, what they’ve actually done is created a new culture of oppression in the opposite direction, imposing that on kids,” Ramaswamy continued.
While appearing on Meet the Press on Sunday, Ramaswamy defended his belief that gender is not fluid and that there are only two genders, male and female, telling host Chuck Todd that “gender dysphoria for most of our history, all the way through the DSM V, has been characterized as a mental health disorder.”
“I don’t think it is compassionate to affirm that. I think it’s cruelty. When a kid is crying out for help,” Ramaswamy told Todd. “You’ve got to ask the question of what else is going wrong at home? What else is going wrong at school? Let’s be compassionate and get to the heart of that rather than playing this game as though we are actually changing our medical understanding for the last hundred years.”
Ramaswamy called his conversation with Todd “a funny exchange.”
“The funny part, Sean,” he said of his time on Meet the Press. “I didn’t even want to bring it up, is I graduated from Harvard with a degree in biology. I didn’t want to throw those facts at him. I actually just stuck to the basic facts, which everyone understands what it means to be a man and what it means to be a woman. That is what it means to stand for truth.”
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Ramaswamy added that the Left’s arguments on sexuality and orientation contradict each other from a position of them being hard-wired at birth to now being fluid throughout one’s life.
“Those two things cannot make sense at the same time unless you subscribe to some cult, and that is what this LGBTQIA+ movement has become,” he said.