In the article In a response later on Twitter , Jost would argue the joke was arguing that identity politics , particularly on the left , helped Trump pull out his surprising upset victory over Clinton . There have been no reported poll results so far to back up that claim , and as Boston Globe columnist wrote , there ' s no evidence transgender rights pushed the country to Trump . They article conflates transgender rights with identity politics . Its a massive strawman . Transgender rights is the idea that men who become women and women who become men should be treated properly and fairly . identity politics is the demigender pansexual helicopterkin , daemonpenisgender bollocks that Tumblrinaction is all about . The article itself is part of the problem . Someone made a joke about the extremists on the left , the 37 gender people . not the menwomen or womenmen probably politically incorrect .