How Did They Forget About Dylan Mulvaney?

On Good Friday, the White House issued this proclamation:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility. I call upon all Americans to join us in lifting up the lives and voices of transgender people throughout our Nation and to work toward eliminating violence and discrimination based on gender identity.

On one hand, OK, this isn't anything new:

Republicans are taking aim at President Joe Biden for proclaiming Easter Sunday as the Transgender Day of Visibility, though the two days only coincided this year by chance.

The Transgender Day of Visibility, which was started in 2009 as a day of awareness to celebrate the successes of transgender and gender-nonconforming people, is held annually on March 31. The date of Easter, meanwhile, changes from year to year.

But several Republicans seized on Biden’s proclamation to attack the president.

But other commentators have asked whether the White House would have made a point of the trans day of visibility if it had coincided with the start of Ramadan, which took place on March 11 of this year -- Likely not. The same might apply to the start of Passover, which often coincides with Easter.

It's hard to avoid thinking this is an in-your-face gesture, at least this year. Michael Lebron, who goes by the handle Lionel, commented on YouTube,

Biden knows his days are numbered. He has never been at a voter approval nadir like this. This is the pits, it can't get any worse. You would think, just until the election is over with, like 220 days roughly until the election, you would think that he and his cronies would say let's just play it cool for a while, let's pretend that we don't hate America, just for the time being. But no, no, no, that's not what he does. What Joe Biden does is he's declared the holiest of Christian holidays, this is critical, Easter, he calls it Transgender Day of Visibility. What the mpph does that even mean?

The problem is that "transgender visibility" to most Americans these days is turning out to be biological men forcing themselves into women's rest and locker rooms, and indeed, not even trying to pass as women, but doing things like shaving when they get there.

Johanna Ray planned a winter birthday party for her six-year-old son during the Feb. 22 open swim time at the Hamme Pool in Fairbanks. What was supposed to be a family friendly environment was quickly shattered when a transgender biological male entered into the women’s locker room as Ray’s daughters and other underage girls were undressing.

. . . According to Ray, a pool supervisor said they would see if they could arrange a better solution.

“I suggested they offer the lobby bathroom to the transgender person,” Ray recalled. “Why should all my children and all the kids invited to my party have to use one tiny lobby bathroom with no shower, and have a biological male walk right into a room of naked changing women and little girls, completely violating their privacy and trust?”

. . . Ray explained to the transgender person that a bunch of little girls were coming into the locker room to change for a swimming birthday party. She then asked if he would be willing to change in a gender-neutral bathroom.

“He said, ‘I’m not bothering you – go to hell lady,’ and flipped me off as he walked out,” Ray recounted.

She said the person attends a local high school with her older daughter and is allowed to use the girls’ bathroom at the school as well.

Episodes like this have become routine. The "rights" of transgender people have morphed into a generalized form of oppression, which normies -- even in cases like this, soccer moms who might have leaned Democrat -- are starting to resent. This has handed Trump an issue, which he immediately seized:

Former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is lighting up Democrat Joe Biden and the White House for the president’s “appalling and insulting” behavior towards Christians on Easter

". . . We call on Joe Biden’s failing campaign and White House to issue an apology to the millions of Catholics and Christians across America who believe tomorrow is for one celebration only — the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”

Traditional media is stressing that the trans day of visibility falling on March 31 is just a coincidence, and Republicans are acting in bad faith to accuse Biden of deliberately desecrating the Christian holiday. The problem is that this is taking place just as the public is starting to calm down from the Dylan Mulvaney fiasco, with Bud Light only slowly and gradually regaining its market. You do not want to identify your brand with trans.

The basic problem is that people don't trust Biden, and they're predisposed to believe he supports pretty much anything they don't like. Conversely, if Trump, or someone on his campaign staff, were inadvertently to issue a positive statement about the trans day of visibility, they'd give him the benefit of the doubt. In demanding an apology from Biden, the Trump campagin knows that's something Biden will never do, but Trump is able to put himself on the side of Middle America against Biden, who supports trans, which means men in women's spaces and Dylan Mulvaney -- and he'll never back down, which makes it a permanent issue for Trump.

This probably wasn't deliberate, just a really dumb White House move, but the problem with the visual is that it's so hard to tell the difference that it may as well be deliberate, and Trump is going to play it as though it is. Well, you can't fix stupid.