Donald Trump has promised aggressive attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, with a focus on trans youth, who have been a central target of the GOP’s culture war. The former president’s proposed “plan to protect children from left-wing gender insanity” includes ordering federal agencies to end all programs that “promote … gender transition at any age”; revoking funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to youth and subjecting them to US justice department investigations; punishing schools that affirm trans youth; and pushing a federal law stating the government doesn’t legally recognize trans people. Trump has also pledged to rescind federal LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination policies, which could mean a loss of protections in housing, healthcare, employment, education and a range of federal programs. He has promised new credentialing for teachers to “promote positive education about the nuclear family, the roles of mothers and fathers”. The Republican platform calls for advancing a “culture that values the sanctity of marriage”. Project 2025, the rightwing manifesto authored by Trump allies, is even more explicit, saying Biden-Harris pro-LGBTQ+ policies should be replaced by ones supporting the “formation of stable, married, nuclear families” and “heterosexual, intact marriage”. It says adoption agencies, healthcare workers and businesses should be able to reject LGBTQ+ people, and faith-based government contractors should be allowed to deny services to people who don’t fit “biblically based” definitions of marriage. Some legal scholars have warned that marriage equality, already endangered at the supreme court, could be further threatened under Trump, particularly if he gets the opportunity to appoint additional justices. If Trump wins the election, he could launch a ‘catastrophic’ rollback of LGBTQ+ rights
As someone who was forced to endure the trauma of socialization and the fucking physical puberty of a gender I couldn't begin to identify with, this makes my heart hurt. Who is protecting these poor children from right wing gender insanity???
While the current focus is on eradicating trans people, you can be certain that the repugnicans will not stop there. Once they have gotten us, they will come for the gays and lesbians, too, followed by immigrants and ethnic groups. Just as they did in 1933 in Germany. The last time these policies were legislated, it took the combined might of the world's superpowers to stop them. Who will stop them this time? China and Russia? Please, no! The only hope is to vote against them in November.
Don't you find it odd that none of them are talking about what they intend to do with their concentration camps once Stephen Miller has ethnically cleansed everyone they deem an "alien"? Mass deportations, detention camps, troops on the street: Trump spells out migrant plan "We must hang together, or else we will surely hang separately." Benjamin Franklin
Just the mention of Stephen Miller gives me the creeps! I don't know how some humans can live their lives in such a hateful way. They are usually the first assholes to start bleating about a god.
Thanks for the warning! A horrible fate awaits this country if Trump is elected... give a crook a second chance in the White House? NO
