Pete Hegseth Casually Tosses Out a Slur at Iowa State Fair

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used an anti-LGBTQ slur completely unprompted at an Iowa State Fair on Monday, referring to transgender people as “trannies.” “At the Department of War, we do training, not trannies,” he said at a Salute to the Troops military fundraiser at the fair, the Iowa Capital Dispatch reported. The event was initially supposed to be in March, but was delayed when two Iowa servicemembers were killed in an Iranian airstrike that Hegseth downplayed at the time “It is a day…