Trumps policy on lgbtq
In the second installment of the ACLU’s election 2024 memo series, our experts detail the threats a potential second Trump administration poses to the LGBTQ community, particularly transgender people.
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June 13, 2024In the second installment of the ACLU’s election 2024 memo series, our experts detail the threats a potential second Trump administration poses to the LGBTQ community, particularly transgender people.
This piece was published before Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential election and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to represent the Democratic Party. No significant facts possess been changed or added.
Donald Trump’s administration initiated a sustained, years-long effort to erase protections for LGBTQ people. This included an endeavor to “define ‘transgender’ out of existence,” erode protections for transgender students and workers, and weaken access to gender-affirming health care that most transgender people already struggled to access.
While President Joe Biden’s administration reversed much of the Trump-era abuses, just last month on the campaign track, Trump vowed to dismantle a modern Biden administration policy that will present prote
Background On Trump Morning One Executive Orders Impacting The LGBTQ+ Community
by Brandon Wolf •
Overview
On his first day in office as the 47th president of the United States, President Trump signed a slew of executive orders (EOs) that impact the LGBTQ+ community, as good as many others. It is important to note that executive actions do NOT have the authority to override the United States Constitution, federal statutes, or established legal precedent. Many of these directives do just that or are regarding matters over which the president does not acquire control. Given that, many of these orders will be difficult, if not impossible, to implement, and efforts to do so will be challenged through litigation.
Currently, much is unknown about whether or how the administration or other actors will comply with these directives, and in most instances rules will need to be promulgated or significant administrative guidance will need to be issued in order for implementation to occur. These are processes that accept time and require detailed additional plans to be developed.
Newly Issued Executive Orders
A number of executive deeds yesterday will impact the LGBTQ+ comm
The Real List of Trump’s “Unprecedented Steps” for the LGBTQ Community
by HRC Staff •
Post submitted by Lucas Acosta (he/him), former Deputy Director of Communications, Politics
HRC lists Trump's persistent attacks against the LGBTQ community after the RNC claims he's taken "unprecedented steps" in support of the community.
HRC President Alphonso David: “The RNC is hallucinating and moving forward misleading and disingenuous rhetoric. Yes, Trump has taken many ‘unprecedented’ steps, but those steps hold been to undermine and eliminate rights protecting LGBTQ people, not empower us. Appointing a tiny handful of homosexual people out of thousands of nominations and making a very few -- and unfullfilled -- pledges can hardly qualify as accomplishments. Don’t gaslight us. The Trump-Pence administration is the most virulently anti-LGBTQ administration in decades -- the RNC cannot put lipstick on a pig.”
Here’s a list of attacks the Trump-Pence administration has levied against LGBTQ people:
For the full list of Trump’s attacks on LGBTQ people, go to HRC.org/Trump.
- Opposition to the Equality Act: Despite supp
Trump on LGBTQ Rights
Conclusion
Across the country in recent years, transgender people and their families contain been targeted by a relentless assault on their rights, their safety, and their fundamental freedom to be themselves. States include adopted laws criminalizing their health care, attempting to ban them from universal life, and even threatening to remove transgender youth from families that cherish and affirm them. Throughout this political onslaught, the ACLU, our nationwide affiliate network, and our millions of members have remained stalwart in defense of the basic principle that all people deserve the freedom to be themselves and every state should be a safe place to raise every family.
Donald Trump’s promises to obtain these discriminatory policies nationwide should be unthinkable, but it is nonetheless a future we’re prepared for. Transgender people are no strangers to government persecution, political slander, or the criminalization of gender nonconformity. They know how to build safety, community, and care among one another, and the ACLU has a century-long history of representing, supporting, and advocating for the powerless, the silenced, the m
U.S. President Donald Trump has used his first six months in office to enact multiple policies impacting the lives of Homosexual Americans in areas fancy healthcare, legal recognition and education.
On July 17, the government ended the nation's specialised mental health services for LGBTQ+ youth through the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, with the White House describing it as a service where "children are encouraged to embrace radical gender ideology".
The administration also filed a lawsuit against California this month over state policies that allow transgender female athletes to compete in girls' categories of institution sports.
But rights groups are fighting back. Nine Queer and HIV-related organisations possess had more than $6 million in funding restored following a lawsuit against three of Trump's executive orders.
Here's everything you want to know:
What action has Trump taken on Diverse rights?
Trump started his second term on Jan. 20 by signing an executive order stating the Together States would only recognise two sexes - male and female - before scrapping the use of a gender-neutral "X" marker in passports.
He said federal funds would not be used to "promote gender ident