Texas Republican Ronny Jackson has been heavily condemned after calling for the mass institutionalisation of trans people.

The 58-year-old former chief medical advisor made a series of wildly transphobic claims, including that all trans people have an “underlying level of aggressiveness,” while calling for the community to be completely banned from public life.

Appearing on a Tuesday (16 September) Newsmax broadcast, Ronny Jackson claimed, with no evidence , that gender dysphoria is a “psychiatric issue” that needs to be treated.

“These people have psychiatric illnesses to start with… these are people that have gender dysphoria, which is a real psychiatric issue,” he said.

“It’s the reason that we don’t allow them in the militar y at this particular point, because they have psychiatric

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