Vance claims teens become trans to get into Ivy League in attack on ‘gender craziness’

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance claimed that middle and upper-middle-class children were transitioning genders to get into Ivy League schools, asserted that women are “celebrating” abortion s and Democrats want Americans to be unhealthy for political purposes. In a three-hour interview with popular podcaster Joe Rogan that was released Thursday, Sen. Vance (R-Ohio) drifted from many conservative talking points to personal stories about his life.

He also talked extensively about his concerns about “gender craziness,” echoing the anti-trans rhetoric that has become a defining closing message for the Trump-Vance campaign. Vance claimed that middle-class or upper-middle-class White parents know that their children are more likely to get into Ivy League schools if they are transgender..