Is there a trans admission advantage? (opinion)

In recent weeks, I noticed that Trump campaign ads increasingly focused on two issues as 'threats' to America, immigration and transgender issues, finding creative ways to interweave the two. Based on the ads, you might very well come to believe that a Harris administration would have moved the Statue of Liberty from New York's harbor to the Rio Grande and changed the inscription to 'Give me your insane, your criminals, your huddled masses seeking a new gender.'

According to comments made by Vice President-elect JD Vance late last month on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, becoming trans may be the new strategy for getting into Ivy League colleges. 'Think about the incentives,' Vance told Rogan, 'if you are a, you know, middle-class or upper-middle-class white parent and the only thing you care about is whether your child goes into Harvard or Yale; like, obviously, that pathway has become a lot harder for a lot of upper-middle-class kids, but the one way that those people can participate in the DEI bureaucracy in this country is to be trans.'

The price I had to pay is the number of campaign ads I had to watch every time I turned on my TV. In an Electoral College world, my vote actually counted for something, unlike those of Republicans living in blue states or Democrats living in red states.

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