WATCH: 2024 Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy BLASTS The Left For Pushing Transgenderism Following Shooting

This Tuesday, 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy slammed the radical left for pushing ‘genital mutilation and chemical castration’ as the principal solution to ‘gender dysphoria’ in children.

“If gender dysphoria is a source of great suffering, then why on earth are we going out of our way to create more of it? Answer: it makes a small number of insecure progressive adults feel better about themselves. Gender dysphoria is a *disorder*, let’s stop pretending otherwise,” Ramaswamy tweeted.

If gender dysphoria is a source of great suffering, then why on earth are we going out of our way to create more of it? Answer: it makes a small number of insecure progressive adults feel better about themselves. Gender dysphoria is a *disorder*, let’s stop pretending otherwise. pic.twitter.com/AhR88NoisB

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) March 28, 2023

Ramaswamy also attached a video to the tweet, connecting the recent Nashville shooting to radical gender ideology. Ramaswamy claimed the shooting was “a symptom of a deeper epidemic in our country.”

What is that epidemic? According to Ramaswamy, it is the prevalence of “radical gender ideology in our schools.” He maintains this dangerous ideology has helped to “create more gender dysphoria than there ever was.”

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Ramaswamy continued, adding, “we are going further now as a country, where parents are taught the thing they are supposed to do is affirm your kid’s gender confusion, that the schools themselves create, by going through surgery. By going through chemical intervention in the form of puberty blockers. This is irreversible damage to our kids — it is not reversible!”

Ramaswamy also claimed the premise behind medically transitioning minors is fallacious. “Take any other topic — take tattoos, for example. In all fifty states in this country, you are not allowed to get a tattoo by the age of 18. Why? Because you do not want a kid making a stupid decision that they will regret for the rest of their lives, until they are a fully formed, freely consenting adult.” Ramaswamy remarked.

Vivek Ramaswamy concluded his analogy by saying, “well, you know what? If we are a country that says you cannot get a tattoo until the age of 18. Then you certainly should not be undergoing surgery for genital mutilation and chemical intervention through puberty blockers before the age of 18 either.”

Ramaswamy then suggested his policy for dealing with the medical transition of children, should he be elected in 2024.

“I will implement a federal ban on genital mutilation, on any surgeries that effectuate that for gender-affirming purposes — and including chemical intervention before the age of 18. Because if you can’t get a tattoo, it certainly doesn’t make sense to allow kids to make these decisions that many of them, most of them will regret for the rest of their lives,” Ramaswamy concluded.