Scoop: Trump Once Complimented a Famous Trans Model at an AIDS Fashion Show, Welcomed a Canadian Trans Contestant to Compete in ‘Miss USA’

Now he’s banning drag shows from the Kennedy Center, de-funding AIDS prevention, and erasing anyone gender non-conforming.

The Lady Chablis (R) playing herself in ‘Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.’ At bottom left, she appears at the film premiere with Clint Eastwood. At top, she poses with Marla Maples at a December 1996 fashion show to benefit an AIDS charity. Maples’ husband Donald Trump, center, is pictured at the charity’s April 1996 event. Photos from IMDB and news reports, cropped for fair use as political commentary.

Remember these words: “No falsification of identification.”

That was the successful defense mounted in 1976 by a lawyer in Montgomery, Alabama criminal case against the winner of the Miss Gay World Pageant earlier that year in Atlanta. She had been arrested and criminally charged for dressing like a woman and adopting a female first name while holding a male driver’s license.

That same female impersonator, famously known 20 years later as “The Lady Chablis,” became a cause célèbre for being featured in a best-selling book. Her good looks earned a compliment from none other than Donald Trump after she walked the runway as a model at an April 1996 AIDS benefit in New York City, where Trump’s wife Marla Maples also modeled.

Nearly 30 years later, Trump on his very first day returning to the White House issued an executive order that .