In less than one week, Republicans have advanced legislation restricting transgender Americans' participation in sports and declared a federal definition of gender that excludes those who do not conform with their sex assigned at birth, setting the stage for policy attacks on LGBTQ+ rights and freedoms unlike anything the nation has seen before.

Commentator Brad Polumbo has weighed in on President Trump's recent order to house inmates who are transgender women in men's facilities and halt medical treatments, calling it a "win for sanity".