“Along with their anger about abortion, they grouse about not being allowed to punish students “for being homosexual or transgender.” They also argue they should be able to penalize teaching assistants for “cross-dressing,” by which they appear to mean allowing trans women to wear skirts.”
they were making a joke, not a grant application
The joke doesn’t make sense like that. I’ve seen it before as “Since fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class, should I trust them?” Which actually does work. You can just say he got the math wrong and you doubled down on it