Wed Apr 19, 2023 – 8:47 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, widely anticipated to announce a presidential run after the wrap-up of his state’s legislative session next month, gave his unvarnished opinions about transgenderism on Monday, calling it “a total fraud” and remarking that American society must choose whether to be “a society based on truth … or deceit.”
DeSantis made the comments to Turning Point USA’s Benny Johnson in a short clip released Monday ahead of an exclusive interview.
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“It’s a total fraud.”
“Are we going to be a society based on truth or based on deceit? If you take a man and they dress up as a woman you’re asking me to be complicit in a lie. I refuse to do that.
The truth will set you free.” pic.twitter.com/KoYQWk0gC8
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 18, 2023
Asked to give his opinion on “men taking the role of women” and “taking women’s places” in fields including sports and advertising, something Johnson called “an existential threat to women,” DeSantis said bluntly the ideology is “a total fraud.”
The Republican governor began by speaking about William “Lia” Thomas,
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