MSNBC host Joy Reid and commentator Elie Mystal were in full meltdown mode over President Donald Trump’s bold new executive order on gender, which aims to restore biological reality in federal policy.
The discussion revolved around the wave of executive actions Trump rolled out following the inauguration, with Reid and Mystal criticizing this particular order for dismantling policies they championed. However, for many Americans, the executive order represents a long-overdue return to common sense and fairness in the justice system.
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“He was very excited about the ‘End Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives in the Federal Government.’ What’s the impact?” asked Reid.
“So that’s obviously very bad. It’s particularly evil to — I always think of you know, prisoners, people who are incarcerated who have transitioned. According to this, you’re going to take, you know, trans women and put them in male prisons. What do we think is going to happen to them there?” Mystal asked.
“Yeah,” Reid replied.
“That’s not gonna be a good day,” he added.
“Yeah,” she responded.
“So I think this is a thing that has real impact. There’s always an obvious Equal Protection challenge,” Mystal said.
He went on to say that the order would be challenged in court immediately, and the legal challenge would likely drag on for a long time.
“There will be people who suffer unconscionable pain because of what he’s doing,” Mystal added. “These are people who are going to be hurt and physically assaulted because of Trump’s executive order.”
The hosts gave absolutely no time to the many cases in which biological female prisoners were assaulted and raped by transgender women who had been transferred to female prisons.