President Trump’s nominee to a federal judgeship in Texas described transgender children as involved in “Satan’s plan,” during a 2015 speech unearthed by CNN.
Jeff Mateer, an assistant attorney general in Texas nominated to serve on the Eastern District of Texas’ district court, made the controversial remarks about transgenderism in a 2015 speech.
“In Colorado, a public school has been sued because a first grader and I forget the sex, she’s a girl who thinks she’s a boy or a boy who thinks she’s a girl, it’s probably that, a boy who thinks she’s a girl,” Mateer said in a 2015 speech titled, “The Church and Homosexuality.”
“And the school said, ‘Well, she’s not using the girl’s restroom.’ And so she has now sued to have a right to go in. Now, I submit to you, a parent of three children who are now young adults, a first grader really knows what their sexual identity? I mean it just really shows you how Satan’s plan is working and the destruction that’s going on.”
Mateer’s comments on transgenderism could become a bone of contention for U.S. senators considering his nomination, given Trump’s recent decision to undo an Obama administration guidance that permitted transgender students to use the bathroom of their choosing.
Mateer has also made comments appearing to bemoan the disappearance of gay “conversion therapy,” according to audio uncovered by CNN.
