04.15.2025<\/a>\u00a0 Sent\u00a0a memo to lawmakers requesting that Congress rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which contributes money to NPR and PBS. The funding is already appropriated by Congress. Public broadcasters like NPR and PBS have a track record of airing programming that highlights LGBTQ stories, issues, and communities,\u00a0 providing representation and education often not found on commercial networks. The White House memo advocating for the cuts specifically criticized PBS for airing programs featuring transgender characters.<\/p>\n 04.04.2025<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 Issued a proclamation recognizing National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month that erroneously claims that assaults by undocumented immigrants are one of the leading causes of sexual violence. In fact, eight out of 10 rapes are <\/span>committed by someone known to the victim<\/span><\/a>, according to data from the Department of Justice. Previous proclamations emphasized support for survivors and perpetrator accountability. Trump was found liable for sexual abuse in 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 04.04.2025<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 Created a new Title IX Special Investigations Team focused on preventing transgender women and girls from women\u2019s and girls\u2019 sports teams and restrooms. The Departments of Education and Justice jointly said that this team will \u201cprotect students, and especially female athletes, from the pernicious effects of gender ideology in school programs and activities.\u201d Title IX was enacted by Congress in 1972 to protect students from discrimination \u201con the basis of sex.\u201d NCAA President Charlie Baker <\/span>testified<\/span><\/a> in December 2024 that he knows of fewer than ten transgender college student athletes among 510,000 athletes total.<\/span><\/p>\n 04.04.2025<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 Targeted transgender people and health care in a <\/span>proclamation<\/span><\/a> declaring April National Child Abuse Prevention Month. The proclamation is defamatory and without basis and betrays the month\u2019s purpose. Trump\u2019s proclamation singled out transgender care, and without basis, called it a form of child abuse. The proclamation does not address the most common risk factors for neglected or abused children.Transgender people exist, and <\/span>every major medical association<\/span><\/a> and leading world health authority supports health care for transgender people and youth.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 03.24.2025<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 Announced attempt to terminate at least 68 grants to 46 institutions, many of which were for research on the health of LGBTQ people. The grants totaled nearly $40 million when awarded and are funded through Congressional budget appropriation, which the executive branch does not control. Most were in some way related to LGBTQ health, including research on HIV prevention. Other canceled studies centered on cancer, youth suicide, and bone health. The AP reports that, \u201cOne canceled project at Vanderbilt University had been following the overall health of more than 1,200 LGBTQ people age 50 and older.\u2026 \u2018We now no longer have anywhere studying LGBT cancer in the United States,\u2019\u201d a researcher noted.<\/span><\/p>\n 03.15.2025<\/a>\u00a0Shut down the 83-year-old Voice of America (VOA) asserting that the venerable international broadcasting state media network had distributed \u201cradical propaganda,\u201d\u00a0citing<\/a>\u00a0a March 2019\u00a0segment<\/a>\u00a0about transgender migrants seeking asylum in the United States. The\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u2018s fact checker described this as an \u201cordinary news story\u201d that was produced during the first Trump administration. The Trump administration has shut down VOA and other U.S.-funded media by placing nearly all staff on administrative leave and terminating contracts with affiliated broadcasters, effectively silencing operations that had promoted democracy globally for decades.<\/p>\n 03.07.2025<\/span><\/a> Signed an executive order directing administration officials to modify the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program to exclude nonprofit organizations engaged in activities he baselessly described as having a \u201csubstantial illegal purpose.\u201d The order to limit the program is aimed at organizations supporting immigrants, diversity initiatives, or transgender care for youth.<\/span><\/p>\n 03.07.2025<\/a>\u00a0The Department of Defense is reportedly flagging content for removal via keyword search including \u201cgay,\u201d meaning references to the Enola Gay, an airplane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, would be scrubbed. The AP reports the \u201cvast majority of the Pentagon purge targets women and minorities, including notable milestones made in the military. And it also removes a large number of posts that mention various commemorative months\u2014such as those for Black and Hispanic people and women.\u201d Additional content flagged includes a photo of an Army Corps of Engineer that had an engineer with the last name Gay, and a photo of Army Corps biologists \u201cseemingly because it mentioned they were recording data about fish\u2014including their weight, size, hatchery and gender.\u201d<\/p>\n 03.04.2025<\/a>\u00a0Falsely claimed in his Address to Congress that he \u201cbrought back free speech in America.\u201d In fact, his administration has aggressively censored LGBTQ people and identities in\u00a0executive orders<\/a>, from\u00a0federal websites<\/a>, in\u00a0health care<\/a>, and from the\u00a0Stonewall National Monument website<\/a>.<\/p>\n 03.04.2025<\/a>\u00a0Made the dangerous and misleading claim that $8 million in taxpayer dollars were going towards creating \u201ctransgender mice.\u201d In fact, this baseless claim comes from a far-right watchdog group.\u00a0Transgenic<\/a>\u00a0mice are lab research mice that have been genetically altered to better model human disease response. They have been called a \u201crevolutionary research resource<\/a>\u201d for medical advancements in asthma and cancer among other areas.<\/p>\n 03.04.2025<\/a>\u00a0Falsely claimed the USA was giving \u201c$8 million to promote LGBTQI+ in the African nation of Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of.\u201d In fact, the U.S. government does not support LGBTQ initiatives in Lesotho, but it does promote widely used health programs, particularly\u00a0HIV\/AIDS prevention and treatment<\/a>. Trump has previously\u00a0disparaged<\/a>\u00a0African countries and Haiti.<\/p>\n 03.04.2025<\/a>\u00a0Touted his executive orders banning transgender women from sports and cited anti-transgender advocate Payton McNabb, a former volleyball player injured during a match against an alleged trans player. In fact,\u00a0more than 214,000 female student athletes<\/a>\u00a0have been injured playing volleyball since 2012, with the vast majority of accidents involving cisgender players.<\/p>\n 03.06.2025<\/a>\u00a0Marked Women\u2019s History Month with a proclamation from the U.S. Embassy in Romania. The proclamation cited Trump administration policies that impinge on the right of some people to have passports that accurately reflect their gender identities, to restrict some women from participating in sports, and to seek to define \u201csex\u201d in a way that excludes transgender women from the protections of civil rights laws. Trump\u2019s own history with women includes nominating the Supreme Court justices who helped overturn the federal protections of\u00a0Roe<\/i>, and a jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll in 1996, awarding her $5 million. In a leaked 2005\u00a0Access Hollywood<\/i>\u00a0tape, Trump was recorded bragging about kissing and groping women without their consent. Trump defended several political allies accused of sexual misconduct or domestic abuse, including his first nominee for Attorney General Matt Gaetz, Defense Secretary\u00a0Pete Hegseth<\/a>, HHS Secretary\u00a0Robert F. Kennedy, Jr<\/a>., and Education Secretary\u00a0Linda McMahon<\/a>\u00a0who is accused of enabling child sex assault when she led the WWE. More than 40 women have publicly accused Trump of various forms of sexual misconduct since the 1970s.<\/p>\n 02.19.2025<\/a>\u00a0Rolled out a new HHS\u00a0webpage<\/a>, titled \u201cProtecting Women and Children,\u201d that employs Trump\u2019s narrow and scientifically baseless definition of sex and asserts that gender-affirming care is a form of child abuse. The department is promoting a rigid definition of sex that excludes\u00a0transgender<\/a>\u00a0identities, falsely framing gender-affirming care as \u201cchemical and surgical mutilation\u201d and targeting trans inclusion in sports. In fact,\u00a0every major medical association and leading world health authority<\/a>\u00a0supports health care for transgender people and youth. The site section titled \u201cKeeping Men Out of Women\u2019s Sports,\u201d repeats\u00a0far-right rhetoric used to justify bans on transgender women athletes.<\/a><\/p>\n 02.18.2025<\/a>\u00a0Added a baseless disclaimer to the top of government websites for the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Health and Human Services after a federal judge ordered that web pages that contained vital information about trans people and other marginalized groups be reinstated. The pages were posted again with a false header that reads, \u201cAny information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from the immutable biological reality that there are two sexes, male and female\u2026 The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology and condemns the harms it causes to children, by promoting their chemical and surgical mutilation, and to women, by depriving them of their dignity, safety, well-being, and opportunities. This page does not reflect biological reality and therefore the Administration and this Department reject it.\u201d The statement is false and contradicts\u00a0global medical standards defining gender and sex<\/a>. Transgender people exist.\u00a0Every major medical association<\/a>\u00a0and leading world health authority supports health care for transgender people and youth.<\/p>\n 02.14.2025<\/a>\u00a0National Park Service\u00a0removes<\/a>\u00a0the word \u201ctransgender\u201d from the Stonewall National Monument website. Transgender people were central in the Stonewall Riots and remain essential in the past, present and future of the LGBTQ movement.<\/p>\n 02.10.2025<\/a>\u00a0Signed an executive order to target mainstream essential health care for transgender youth, using inaccurate and inflammatory graphic language. The care is supported by\u00a0every major medical association<\/a>\u00a0and has been prescribed for decades, including throughout the first Trump administration. The order was\u00a0blocked<\/a>\u00a0by a federal judge and prohibits federal agencies from conditioning or withholding federal funding based on the fact that a healthcare entity or professional provides gender-affirming medical care to a patient under nineteen.<\/p>\n 02.10.2025<\/a>\u00a0Removed \u201cT\u201d from\u00a0State Department travel advisory website<\/a>\u00a0which now only offers guidance for \u201cLGB\u201d travelers.<\/p>\n 02.07.2025<\/a>\u00a0Department of Justice directs federally-funded nonprofit organizations including the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to remove references to transgender people from public materials.\u00a0The Verge<\/a>\u00a0reported that three reports previously on the NCMEC website had become inaccessible, each of which mentioned LGBTQ people. LGBTQ youth are among the most vulnerable to housing insecurity, violence, and abuse.<\/p>\n 02.04.2025<\/a>\u00a0Paused foreign development assistance, including HIV drug supply to USAID-supported countries.\u00a0Marco Rubio<\/a>, as Secretary of State, has been put in charge of USAID while Pete Marocco, a Trump appointee, manages the defunding and dismantling of USAID programs.\u00a0USAID supported HIV treatment and prevention programs<\/a>, including PEPFAR, which provided lifesaving treatment to millions of people in 54 countries. In addition to HIV programs, USAID supported the rights of LGBTQ people in Dominican Republic, Uganda, Bangladesh, Kosovo, and Guatemala, and worked with LGBTQ populations across Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.<\/p>\n 02.04.2025<\/a>\u00a0Froze applications for the gender-neutral \u201cX\u201d marker on U.S. passports. The option had been added in 2021 by the Biden administration. Several countries worldwide already offer options other than male and female on official documents. India, Pakistan and Nepal already have a nonbinary option, and\u00a0 the Netherlands issued\u00a0its first gender-neutral passport<\/a>\u00a0in 2018.<\/p>\n 02.02.2025<\/a>\u00a0Directed schools to stop using federal funding for purposes related to \u201cgender ideology.\u201d Transgender people are real, and not an ideology. More\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0on the origins of the phrase used to dehumanize trans people.<\/p>\n 01.27.2025<\/a>\u00a0Signed an executive order directing the Secretary of Defense to reinstate a ban on transgender people serving in the military. This policy prohibits transgender people from enlisting, bars currently serving transgender personnel from transitioning, and ends the use of authentic pronouns. The order revokes Biden\u2019s policies that had allowed transgender troops to serve openly and access transition-related medical care and reversed protections for LGBTQ people in military service, education, housing, and federal employment.<\/p>\n 01.23.2025<\/a>\u00a0Moved some transgender women in prisons to administrative isolation and\u00a0mandated<\/a>\u00a0that transgender women prisoners be detained in men\u2019s prisons.<\/p>\n 01.23.2025<\/a>\u00a0Falsely claimed, among multiple baseless claims and wild exaggerations in a speech to global leaders at the World Economic Forum, that \u201cthere are only two genders, male and female. And we will have no men participating in women\u2019s sports and transgender operations, which became the rage, will occur very rarely.\u201d Facts: Science and medicine as well as cultures throughout history have long acknowledged wider diversity of gender. Transgender women are women, and sometimes play sports. \u201cTransgender operations\u201d are already quite rare.<\/p>\n 01.20.2025<\/a>\u00a0Signed an executive order revoking multiple Biden-era\u00a0policies<\/a>. This order revoked an executive order that addressed discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.<\/p>\n 01.20.2025<\/a>\u00a0Ordered an end to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs\u00a0across the federal government<\/a>, putting such staff on immediate administrative leave.<\/p>\n 01.20.2025 The Trump administration has eliminated nearly all LGBTQ and HIV focused content and resources from the White House website, as well as eliminated LGBTQ and HIV content from key federal agency webpages.\u00a0Mentions of \u201clesbian,\u201d \u201cbisexual,\u201d \u201cgay,\u201d \u201ctransgender,\u201d \u201csexual orientation,\u201d \u201cgender identity,\u201d and related terms are no longer accessible on WhiteHouse.gov, and the search term \u201cLGBTQ\u201d now brings up\u00a0zero results<\/a>\u00a0on the site. In addition, some LGBTQ-specific pages have been taken down from the Centers for Disease Control, Department of State, and more.<\/p>\n 01.20.2025<\/a>\u00a0Signed an\u00a0executive order<\/a>\u00a0declaring that the federal government would recognize only two immutable sexes: male and female. The order aims to\u00a0 prevent taxpayer funds from being used for gender-transition health care and add \u201cprivacy in intimate spaces\u201d in facilities such as prisons, migrant shelters and rape shelters.\u00a0In fact<\/a>, the development of the human body is a complex process, and sex is not solely determined by anatomy, nor is it strictly binary. As many as 1.7% of people are born with an intersex trait.<\/p>\n 10.28.2024<\/a> Repeatedly referred to CNN’s\u00a0Anderson Cooper as “Allison<\/a>” at a rally in Michigan when Cooper’s town hall with Vice President Kamala Harris came up. The anti-LGBTQ and misogynistic rhetoric evokes the trope of gay men as effeminate, suggesting that gay men are women and that being a woman is degrading.<\/p>\n 10.13.2024<\/a> The Trump campaign spent $65 million on anti-transgender campaign ads. One ad pictured Vice President Harris superimposed with transgender members of the Biden administration and a scene lifted from the television show Orange Is the New Black<\/em> of inmates in prison jumpsuits. \u201cKamala supports taxpayer funded sex changes for prisoners and illegal aliens. Kamala is for they\/them. President Trump is for you.\u201d The assertion describes Harris’s position as “extreme.” By law the government must provide medical care to prisoners and immigrant detainees.<\/p>\n 09.10.24.<\/a> In the presidential debate Trump said, \u201cNow [Kamala Harris] wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison.\u201d In fact, by law the government must provide medical care to prisoners and immigrant detainees. During Trump’s presidency<\/a>, officials at the Bureau of Prisons, which operates under the Justice Department, facilitated transgender health care for a limited number of incarcerated people who sought such care. This policy was implemented during Trump’s term.<\/p>\n 09.04.2024<\/a> Lied about access to gender-affirming care for minors, saying at a Moms for Liberty<\/a> summit, \u201cThink of it, your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation\u2026.The school decides what\u2019s going to happen with your child.\u201d The statement is a false, gross misrepresentation of the highly regulated process of transgender health care for minors in the United States. No children are going to school and receiving surgery there for gender dysphoria.<\/p>\n 08.02.2024<\/a> In an interview at The National Association of Black Journalists conference he falsely questioned Vice President Kamala Harris<\/a>‘ racial identity, claiming she “happened to turn Black” a few years ago and suggesting she previously only promoted her Indian heritage. The lie echos his previous racist remarks, such as the “birther<\/a>” conspiracy theories he promoted against former President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n 07.18.2024<\/a> During 90-minute nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, he\u00a0repeats\u00a0baseless disinformation about transgender women and girls participating in sports. GLAAD\u2019s\u00a0Voter Poll<\/a>\u00a0shows a majority of voters in all parties oppose \u201ca political candidate [who] speaks frequently about restricting access to health care and participation in sports for transgender youth.\u201d<\/p>\n 07.10.2024<\/a>\u00a0 Campaign website includes formal policy plans called “Agenda 47” that includes a pledge titled “President Trump’s Plan to Protect Children From Left-Wing Gender Insanity.” The Advocate<\/em> reports, “Trump promised to outlaw gender-affirming care<\/a> for minors at the federal level, and ‘cease all programs that promote the concept of sex and gender transition at any age.’ He also promised to ban transgender<\/a> athletes from competing on teams that match their gender identity.\u2026 Trump stated that he ‘will ask Congress to pass a bill establishing that the only genders recognized by the United States government are male and female \u2014 and they are assigned at birth.’ He then claimed that being transgender was ‘invented’ by the ‘radical left,’ though he did not use the term ‘transgender’ once throughout Agenda 47.”<\/p>\n 06.21.24 \u00a0<\/span>Announced<\/a> that if elected for a second term, he would cut federal funding for inclusive schools: “On day one, I will sign a new executive order to cut Federal funding of any school pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content onto the lives of our children.” He also announced his intent to target transgender people in sports.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 05.17.2024 Recommitted<\/a>\u00a0to criminalizing abortion, telling\u00a0Time<\/em><\/a> that he would not intervene in decisions to monitor or prosecute pregnant people. He refused to say whether his second administration would enforce the\u00a0Comstock Act<\/a>, an 1873 \u201czombie law\u201d that bans the mailing of \u201cobscene\u201d materials, including birth control and \u201cinstruments\u201d used for abortions. The act has been unenforceable for the past 50 or so years, largely because it was rendered unconstitutional by Roe v. Wade,<\/em> which Trump has repeatedly taken credit for overturning.<\/p>\n 05.14.2024<\/a> Vowed to roll back Title IX protections for transgender student enacted in April 2024 by the U.S. Department of Education \u201con day one,\u201d if he\u2019s reelected. Trump said: \u201cWe\u2019re going to end it on day one. Don\u2019t forget, that was done as an order from the president. That came down as an executive order. And we\u2019re going to change it\u2014on day one it\u2019s going to be changed\u2026. It\u2019ll be terminated.\u201d<\/p>\n 04.08.2024<\/span><\/a> Stated his current position on abortion on his social media platform in a video saying, \u201cMy view is now that we have abortion where everyone wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation, or perhaps both. And whatever they decide must be the law of the land. In this case, the law of the state.\u201d In the same video he made the baseless claim that Democrats want to legalize the \u201cexecution\u201d of babies that were already born, <\/span>which is not true<\/span><\/a>. Trump\u2019s position on abortion rights has <\/span>changed many times<\/span><\/a> from saying he is \u201cvery pro-choice\u201d in 1999, to personally taking credit for overturning Roe vs. Wade<\/em> in 2022, to saying Florida\u2019s six-week abortion ban is \u201ca terrible mistake\u201d in 2023, to saying he would \u201cbe open\u201d to a 15 week ban in 2024. <\/span><\/p>\n 04.04.2024<\/a>\u00a0Announced<\/span> he would declare <\/span>November 5 to be \u201cChristian Visibility Day\u201d a<\/span>fter a baseless complaint about Transgender Day of Visibility coinciding with Easter in 2024. Previously <\/span>Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt issued a statement<\/span><\/a> calling it \u201cappalling and insulting\u201d that Biden \u201cformally proclaimed Easter Sunday as \u2018Trans Day of Visibility.\u2019 \u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 03.16.2024<\/a>\u00a0Defended Ohio Senate primary candidate\u00a0Bernie Moreno<\/a>, whose email address was used to create an account on Adult Friend Finder in 2008 seeking \u201cmen for 1-on-1 sex.\u201d Moreno\u2019s campaign said the account was created by an intern as a prank. Trump defended Moreno and claimed \u201cDemocratic fake treatment\u201d for the story Moreno\u2019s campaign had confirmed: \u201cWe all know this man. He\u2019s a hero, he\u2019s a winner and we\u2019re not going to let these people \u2014 these people are sick.\u201d<\/p>\n 03.16.2024<\/a>\u00a0Appeared at a campaign rally for Ohio Senate primary candidate Bernie Moreno, sponsored by the pro-Moreno Buckeye Values PAC. The PAC\u00a0released an ad<\/a>\u00a0targeting a Moreno rival as \u201ca champion for trans equality.\u201d The PAC also\u00a0reportedly sent campaign mail<\/a>\u00a0asking \u201cWhat Team Does Frank LaRose Play For?\u201d and \u201cIs he with us \u2026 Or is he with they\/them?\u201d<\/p>\n 03.04.2024<\/a>\u00a0Endorsed North Carolina Lt. Governor\u00a0Mark Robinson<\/a>\u00a0for governor, despite Robinson\u2019s history of anti-LGBTQ disinformation and rhetoric, including calling gay people \u201cfilth\u201d and \u201cmaggots.\u201d Trump\u00a0repeated<\/a>\u00a0his\u00a0past claims<\/a>\u00a0that Robinson is \u201cbetter than Martin Luther King\u201d and \u201cMartin Luther King on steroids.\u201d<\/p>\n 02.02.2024<\/a>\u00a0Used vulgar slang to refer to LGBTQ legal icon Roberta\u00a0Kaplan<\/a>, who represented E. Jean Carroll against Trump. Trump was found liable for sexually abusing Carroll in the 1990s and for defaming her by mocking her claims after he left the White House. A jury awarded Carroll with $83 million in damages. Kaplan recalled leading the deposition of Trump, saying that at the end Trump\u2019s lawyers asked to go \u201coff the record,\u201d meaning what he said would not be included on the court deposition transcript. Kaplan said Trump then said to her: \u201cSee you next Tuesday,\u201d a slang term referring to a word for female genitalia used as an insult for women.<\/p>\n 02.20.2024<\/a>\u00a0Supported by the anti-LGBTQ national organization\u00a0Heritage Foundation<\/a>\u00a0with a 180-page document detailing regulations and executive orders to be taken in first days in office, including: \u201cdeleting [from federal agencies and federal rule] the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (\u201cSOGI\u201d), diversity, equity, and inclusion., gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights;\u201d limiting abortion access with executive orders using\u00a0the Comstock Act<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 a long-inactive 19th century law that banned birth control and abortion medication by mail. Semafor\u00a0reported<\/a>: While Project 2025 bills itself as being \u201ccandidate agnostic,\u201d [project director Paul] Dans noted that at this point in the primary, they expect \u201cand hope\u201d that Donald Trump will ultimately end up in office again. NBC News\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that Project 2025 includes representatives from anti-LGBTQ, anti-equality and\u00a0anti-democracy groups<\/a>\u00a0\u201cled by veterans of the Trump administration, such as\u00a0America First Legal<\/a>, the\u00a0Center for Renewing America<\/a>\u00a0and the Conservative Partnership Institute, the\u00a0Claremont Institute<\/a>, the\u00a0Family Research Council<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Independent Women\u2019s Forum<\/a>.\u201d (Links to groups added by GLAAD).<\/p>\n 01.10.2024<\/a>\u00a0Boasted of his role in the Supreme Court decision ending the right to abortion by\u00a0nominating<\/a>\u00a0three of the justices who joined the decision: \u201cIf it weren\u2019t for me, with Roe v. Wade, you wouldn\u2019t even be talking about this stuff. For 54 years they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated, and I did it and I\u2019m proud to have done it,\u201d Trump said. Abortion is an LGBTQ issue: LGBTQ people can and do get pregnant, lesbian young women are\u00a0two to ten times more likely to become pregnant<\/a>\u00a0than heterosexual youth, lesbian and bisexual women are often at\u00a0higher risk of sexual assault<\/a>\u00a0due in part to their sexual orientation, which may also result in an unplanned pregnancy.<\/p>\n 12.30.2023<\/a>\u00a0Criticized Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine for\u00a0vetoing<\/a>\u00a0state bill banning essential health care for transgender youth and banning trans youth from school sports, spread disinformation about the care and school sports.\u00a0DeWine had said his veto was based on conversations he had with parents, patients and providers who told him how the care saves lives. Trump\u00a0said in a Truth Social post<\/a>: \u201cDeWine has fallen to the Radical Left\u2026 What was he thinking. The bill would have stopped child mutilation, and prevented men from playing in women\u2019s sports. Legislature will hopefully overturn. Do it FAST!!!\u201d Ohio hospitals and providers, along with hundreds of others, had testified that they do not perform surgeries on youth, and Ohio\u2019s school sports association has long had policies to ensure inclusive participation of transgender students.<\/p>\n 12.17.2023<\/a> Announced on social media, \u201c<\/span>On Day One [of a second term if he were reelected President], I will sign a new executive order<\/a> to cut federal funding for any school pushing Critical Race Theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n 11.03.2023<\/a>\u00a0Mimicked a Canadian weightlifter in an extended campaign event skit to mock and misgender transgender women in sports, claiming he will \u201cend this on day one\u201d if he\u2019s re-elected.<\/p>\n 09.13.2023<\/a>\u00a0In \u201cAgenda47: President Trump\u2019s Ten Principles For Great Schools Leading To Great Jobs\u201d on Trump\u2019s campaign web site, he disparaged transgender people and includes misinformation about gender in eight of the ten principles. The Agenda targets LGBTQ people, particularly transgender people, by opposing gender-affirming care, restricting teachers from supporting transgender students, defining gender strictly as binary and assigned at birth, and eliminating LGBTQ-inclusive curricula. These policies aim to remove recognition and support for transgender identities in education and healthcare while promoting a restrictive view of gender and sexuality.<\/p>\n 05.17.2023<\/a> Proudly stated, \u201cI was able to kill <\/span>Roe v. Wade<\/span><\/i>,\u201d taking credit for the Supreme Court overturning the national right to an abortion in the <\/span>Dobbs<\/span><\/i> decision. The Dobbs<\/em> decision suggested that the right to same-sex marriage should be reconsidered by the Court as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 06.11.2023<\/a> Said of transgender athletes at a rally, \u201c<\/span>Who would even think that you can allow this? Who would say that this is okay? These people are sick. They are deranged\u2026. It\u2019s astonishing how passionately people react to that. When you talk about tax cuts, they remain calm. But when you mention transgender issues, everyone goes wild.\u00a0Who would have imagined five years ago that they wouldn\u2019t even know what \u2018it\u2019 meant?\u201d<\/p>\n 04.14.2023<\/a>\u00a0Said that if re-elected, he would use the government to investigate and potentially halt transgender health care during a National Rifle Association (NRA) speech.\u00a0\u201cUpon my inauguration, I will direct the FDA to convene an independent outside panel to investigate whether transgender hormone treatments and ideology increase the risk of extreme depression, aggression and even violence,\u201d said Trump. He also accused Democrats of \u201cpushing the transgender cult\u201d on children.<\/p>\n 03.26.2023<\/a> Vowed to crack down on \u201ctransgender insanity\u201d and pledged to \u201crevoke every Biden policy promoting the disfigurement of our youth\u201d at the first rally of his 2024 presidential campaign. He said that he would \u201ckeep men out of women\u2019s sports\u201d if re-elected president, after he last year misgendered transgender athlete Lia Thomas. He added: \u201cI will immediately sign an executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other racial, sexual or political content on our children.\u201d<\/p>\n 01.31.2023<\/a> Made multiple false claims about gender affirming care, tweeting a so-called \u201cPlan to Protect Children from Left-Wing Gender Insanity.\u201c Every major medical association<\/a> and world health authority supports gender affirming care; statements here<\/a>\u00a0including from the American Academy of Pediatrics: “There is strong consensus among the most prominent medical organizations worldwide that evidence-based, gender-affirming care for transgender children and adolescents is medically necessary and appropriate. It can even be lifesaving. The decision of whether and when to start gender-affirming treatment, which does not necessarily lead to hormone therapy or surgery, is personal and involves careful consideration by each patient and their family.\u201d<\/p>\n 01.29.2023<\/a> At a campaign event, falsely claimed and without evidence or fact: “We’re going to stop the left-wing radical racists and perverts who are trying to indoctrinate our youth, and we’re going to get their Marxist hands off our children\u2026We’re going to defeat the cult of gender ideology and reaffirm that God created two genders: men and women. We’re not going to allow men to play women’s sports.”<\/p>\n 01.26.2023<\/a> Released so-called education policy that cuts federal funding for any school or program that includes \u201ccritical race theory, gender ideology, or other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content onto our children.\u201d<\/p>\n 11.15.2022<\/a> In speech announcing third run for president, baselessly targeted schools for \u201cradical civics and gender insanity\u201d (without defining what those are) and stated inaccurate and inflammatory promises such as \u201cWe will not let men, as an example, participate in women\u2019s sports.\u201d Recommitted to his 2017 tweeted ban against transgender Americans serving in the military: \u201cAs commander-in-chief, I will get Biden\u2019s radical left ideology out of our military.\u201d President Biden reversed<\/a> the tweeted order in 2021 in one of his first acts as President. 70% of Americans<\/a>\u00a0support allowing transgender Americans to serve in the U.S. armed forces. 66%\u00a0of\u00a0active-duty soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines support serving alongside\u00a0transgender personnel.<\/p>\n 08.06.22<\/a>\u00a0Invited activist\u00a0Riley Gaines<\/a>\u00a0on stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as he baselessly claimed that\u00a0\u201cleft-wing lunatics\u201d encourage unfair competition in sports. Gaines has\u00a0profited<\/a>\u00a0by spreading disinformation about transgender people and athletes after tying for 5th place with a transgender swimmer at the NCAA championships. Gaines went on to\u00a0endorse<\/a>\u00a0Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for president over Trump.<\/p>\n 03.01.22<\/a> Told a gay supporter they did not \u201clook gay\u201d during a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago. \u201cWhere\u2019s Gays for Trump?\u201d Trump asked a crowd of supporters at the event which was raising funds for congressional candidate John Gibbs. Someone replied, \u201cWe\u2019re over here.\u201d Trump pointed at them and said, \u201cYou don\u2019t look gay,\u201d which elicited laughs from the audience.<\/p>\n 02.24.22<\/a>\u00a0Praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying at a Florida fundraiser, he is \u201cpretty smart\u2026 He\u2019s taken over a country for $2 worth of sanctions\u2026 taking over a country\u2014really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people\u2014and just walking right in.\u201d In fact the sanctions<\/a> include: freezing the global banking assets of Putin, various government officials, and some oligarchs; immobilizing the assets of the Russian Central Bank and cutting off Russian banks from business with the U.S.; removing Russia from\u00a0SWIFT\u00a0which handles about 70% of Russian banking transactions; barring any new oil and gas deals with Russia; and other sanctions. The effect has been to shrink the Russian economy 35% in the second quarter of 2022 and 7% for the entire year. Despite being outsized and out resourced, Ukraine has stymied or slowed much of the Russian invasion effort. The autocrat Trump praised as \u201cpretty smart,\u201d Russian President Vladimir Putin, signed legislation<\/a> on 2013 to ban the \u201cpromotion of nontraditional sexual relations to minors,\u201d which, writes Human Rights Watch, is \u201ca reference universally understood to mean a ban on providing children access to information about LGBT people\u2019s lives\u2026 The law has been used to shut down websites that provide valuable information and services to teens across Russia and to bar LGBT support groups from working with youth. But the law\u2019s effects have been much broader: Individual mental health professionals have curtailed what they say and what support they give to students, and the law gives the strong imprimatur of the Russian state to the false and discriminatory view that LGBT people are a threat to tradition and the family\u2026 Its passage coincided with an uptick in often-gruesome vigilante violence against LGBT people in Russia\u2014frequently carried out in the name of protecting Russian values and Russia\u2019s children.\u201d Putin signed legislation in 2021 to constitutionally<\/a> ban same-sex marriage in Russia.<\/p>\n 02.28.21<\/a>\u00a0Told a crowd of supporters that he did not believe transgender women and girls should compete on sports teams consistent with their gender identity, referring to trans female athletes as \u201cbiological males,\u201d a term often used by anti-trans activists to suggest transgender people are not who they say they are.<\/p>\n 01.08.21<\/a> The day after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in a deadly rampage, HHS went public with a final rule to rescind regulations barring discrimination against LGBTQ Americans seeking to adopt or be adopted, or health services including HIV prevention.<\/p>\n 12.07.20<\/a> Labor Department, led by Secretary Eugene Scalia, announces rule-change implementation to allow federal contractors to discriminate against LGBTQ workers via religious exemption. The rule change takes effect Jan. 8, with 12 days remaining in the Trump administration, and will require a full rule-change process for the new administration to revise.<\/p>\n 10.24.20<\/a> Report shows U.S. State Department has been omitting information about human rights abuses against LGBTQ and intersex people, as well as information about violence against women and girls. The Asylum Research Center report from the UK says there\u2019s concern the omissions will result in the erasure of abuses used to make asylum claims and decisions, with LGBTQI+ people being returned to dangerous home countries.<\/p>\n 10.17.20<\/a> Department of Education pressures New Hampshire\u2019s Franklin Pierce University to drop its trans-inclusive policy in athletics. The university agreed to rescind its policy permitting transgender athletes to compete consistent with their gender identity to avoid an investigation by the DOE\u2019s Office of Civil Rights. A civil rights complaint<\/a> triggering the threat of an investigation was filed by \u201cConcerned Women for America,\u201d a noted<\/a> anti-LGBTQ hate group.<\/p>\n 10.17.20<\/a> Tiffany Trump appears at campaign event, falsely claims her father supports the LGBTQ community, ignoring his and his administration\u2019s record of hundreds of attacks against the community. She also omits the \u201cT\u201d when saying \u201cLGBTQ.\u201d The \u201cT\u201d stands for Transgender. LGBTQ advocates see Tiffany Trump\u2019s omission as another example of President Trump and his supporters failure to recognize and support trans people and their very existence.<\/p>\n 10.10.20<\/a> Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, warned by his advance team that an event with the anti-gay Florida Family Policy Council had homophobic advertisements\/flyers at the site and that the group promoted dangerous, debunked conversion therapy, appears at October 3 event anyway. State Dept. aides were reportedly<\/a> appalled at the speaking event and that Pompeo touted it afterward, in a department-wide memo.<\/p>\n 10.05.20<\/a> On the first day of the Supreme Court\u2019s new term, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito \u201ctake a legal baseball bat\u201d to the court\u2019s 2015 decision legalizing marriage equality, claiming the decision \u201cenables courts and governments to brand religious adherents who believe marriage equality is between one man and one woman as bigots.\u201d Justice Thomas writes that Kim Davis, the public official who had refused to issue marriage licenses based on her religious belief, is a \u201cvictim\u201d of a so-called \u201ccavalier treatment of religion.\u201d<\/p>\n 09.29.20<\/a> President Trump\u2019s son Eric claims that LGBTQ people \u201ccome out in full force\u201d to support his father. GLAAD releases a scientific poll of LGBTQ voters<\/a> showing 76% support VP Joe Biden.<\/p>\n 09.26.20<\/a> Legal scholars conclude Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett\u2019s resume could make her the most conservative new justice since Clarence Thomas. On gun rights\u2014would probably strike down \u201cred flag\u201d laws to temporarily take firearms away from dangerous people. She has \u201cvoiced skepticism about the Affordable Care Act. A \u201cdream candidate\u201d for conservatives focused on overturning abortion rights.<\/p>\n 09.26.20<\/a> President Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court. In her speech, Barrett says she adheres to the same judicial philosophy as the late justice Antonin Scalia. Scalia, who dissented in cases advancing LGBTQ rights, called the Obergefell decision \u201ca threat to American democracy,\u201d and Barrett has similarly stated views against marriage equality, defended dissenters of Obergefell, and delivered speeches paid for by anti-LGBTQ groups. She was vetted for the Trump administration by The Federalist Society, which has argued against every major LGBTQ policy proposal including extending Title VII<\/a> of the Civil Rights Act to include LGBTQ workers, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act<\/a>, hate crimes legislation<\/a>, \u201cdon’t ask, don’t tell<\/a>,\u201d and transgender accommodations<\/a>. At least 11 people at the White House event announcing Barrett later test positive<\/a> for COVID-19, including President Trump, his wife, former senior adviser, press secretary, the president of Notre Dame University, and two members of the Judiciary Committee who say they will quarantine for ten days, then attend Barrett\u2019s confirmation hearing.<\/p>\n 09.18.20<\/a> Within an hour of the announcement of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg\u2019s death, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announces \u201cPresident Trump\u2019s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the U.S. Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n 09.18.20<\/a> Education Secretary Betsy DeVos vows to withhold federal funds from Connecticut school districts that participate in athletic conference allowing transgender athletes to compete consistent with their gender identity.The move to withhold about $18 million intended to help schools desegregate could have national implications for both transgender athletes and students of color.<\/p>\n 09.16.20<\/a> Trump administration deploys legal strategy to avoid enforcing The U.S. Supreme Court Bostock ruling extending protections for LGBTQ workers, pushing rules that allow shelters and schools to insist access be based only on gender assigned at birth.<\/p>\n 09.10.20<\/a> President Trump reveals additions to his list of potential Supreme Court appointees, which include Republican senators who have campaigned against marriage equality, a Trump-appointed federal judge<\/a> with ties to an anti-LGBTQ organization identified as a hate group, and Trump\u2019s former Solicitor General<\/a> who has filed briefs and argued before the Court to allow organizations to discriminate against LGBTQ people. Axios reports the list was partly motivated by the Court\u2019s ruling in June 2020 to expand LGBTQ protections in the workplace.<\/p>\n 09.08.20<\/a> The Trump administration files 36-page brief<\/a> with Indiana Supreme Court to support a school\u2019s alleged right to fire a teacher for being gay.<\/p>\n 08.31.20<\/a> White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany falsely characterizes a State Department policy denying citizenship to children of same-sex couples born via surrogacy overseas. McEnany claimed the policy denied citizenship based solely on surrogacy when in fact only LGBTQ surrogacy families had been rejected. McEnany then read what she called the administration\u2019s LGBTQ \u201cachievements,\u201d a list she has previously read<\/a> and which has been debunked as anti-LGBTQ.<\/p>\n 08.28.20<\/a> The Trump State Department says it\u2019s reviewing a federal judge\u2019s ruling with the Department of Justice, ordering State to issue a U.S. passport for the daughter of a married gay couple from Georgia and ruling her a citizen since birth. The judge had ruled the State Department policy requiring a biological connection raised serious constitutional questions for same-sex couples.<\/p>\n 08.24.20<\/a> The Washington Post<\/em> gives Trump advisor Richard Grenell four Pinnochios for, \u201cThe absurd claim that Trump is the \u2018most pro-gay president in American history.\u2019\u201d The claims are deemed \u201cwhoppers,\u201d and every claim Grenell makes is discredited.<\/p>\n 08.21.20<\/a> The State Department is fighting a ruling to recognize citizenship of a young girl with gay parents. She was born in Canada via surrogate, and although her parents are legally married and U.S. citizens, the State Dept. argued in federal court she was \u201cborn out of wedlock\u201d and therefore not entitled to birthright citizenship. A judge deemed the controversial State policy unconstitutional in June.<\/p>\n 08.20.20<\/a> The lead U.S. foreign aid agency proposes a new policy on gender and women\u2019s empowerment that eliminates any mention of transgender people or contraceptives, running counter to its own long-standing practices in deciding what programs to support. The draft policy released by the U.S. Agency for International Development doesn\u2019t use the acronym LGBT or the words \u201clesbian,\u201d \u201cgay,\u201d \u201cbisexual,\u201d \u201ctransgender\u201d or \u201cidentity\u201d at all. Gender experts and advocates said the new policy falls far short of providing the expertise the agency needs to address gender issues in development.<\/p>\n 08.19.20<\/a> The Department of Health and Human Services has been systematically discriminating against LGBTQ+ families in federally supported foster care programs, according to a new report<\/a> from the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee. The committee found that federally-funded agencies were granted a waiver to allow discrimination based on religion and sexual orientation, intentionally harming LGBTQ children, adults, and families.<\/p>\n 08.10.20<\/a> Jenna Ellis, Trump campaign senior legal adviser and the president\u2019s personal lawyer misgenders Pennsylvania\u2019s Health Secretary. Ellis, who has no apparent medical degree, uses Twitter to mock other efforts to control the pandemic that has killed 163,000 people on President Trump\u2019s watch. Ellis also condemns same-sex marriage and transgender identity, and has tweeted to promote conversion therapy<\/a>.<\/p>\n 07.29.20<\/a> Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visit a private school in Raleigh, NC, lauding its reopening for in-person education despite the coronavirus epidemic. Thales Academy founder Bob Luddy<\/a> is one of the biggest Republican donors in North Carolina. Luddy also founded Franklin Academy, a Wake Forest charter school that changed its school handbook after criticism of rules prohibiting LGBT<\/a> discussion or affirmation. Students protested Pence\u2019s visit with signs promoting LGBT rights and remote schooling. Within a week of Pence and DeVos\u2019 visit, students at a nearby sister school had to quarantine<\/a> after a student tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n 07.28.20<\/a> Three years after President Trump tweeted out a ban on transgender people in the military \u201cin any capacity,\u201d the White House says he\u2019s sticking with the policy. Each of the military service chiefs testified before Congress in 2018 they had seen no evidence of transgender service disrupting unit cohesion<\/a> during the period of open service and a Dept. of Defense poll found about two-thirds of active-duty soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines support serving alongside transgender personnel.<\/a><\/p>\n 07.28.20<\/a> The Trump Administration plans to limit work permits for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from two years to one year. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in June that the administration could not carry out its plans to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program because it did not provide legal justification for terminating it. Of the 640,000 \u201cDreamers,\u201d 81,000 identify as LGBT<\/a> and 39,000 have participated in DACA.<\/p>\n 07.27.20<\/a> After his administration supported the losing side at the Supreme Court on LGBTQ job protections, President Trump promises to choose from a new list of conservative jurists in his next court appointments. One potential candidate is Kyle Duncan, appointed by President Trump to the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Duncan\u2019s anti-LGBT record<\/a> includes arguing against trans student Gavin Grimm\u2019s request<\/a> to use the restroom consistent with his gender identity and arguing against national marriage equality and calling the Supreme Court ruling in favor of it an \u201cabject failure\u201d that \u201cimperils civic peace.\u201d<\/p>\n 07.27.20<\/a> President Trump\u2019s niece, Mary Trump, says it\u2019s \u201cabsurd\u201d that her uncle believes he has support in the LGBTQ community, that he\u2019s uncomfortable with gay people and trans people, because \u201che\u2019s uncomfortable with anyone that\u2019s different\u2026 differently-abled, different color of skin, and different beliefs\u2026 He\u2019s not [an] ally of the gay community, or really any community for that matter. Donald doesn\u2019t have any concern or beliefs beyond his own self-interest.\u201d<\/p>\n 07.23.20<\/a> Trump administration revokes HUD regulation designed to eliminate racial disparities in the suburbs. Housing advocates say Trump\u2019s claims about the rule are inaccurate and racist. Only 30% of Black LGBT Americans own a home<\/a> compared to 64.3% of the overall population.<\/p>\n 07.23.20<\/a> Former leader of now-defunct conversion therapy ministry, Exodus International, reveals previous lobbying work he did with members of the Trump administration. Randy Thomas has since denounced conversion therapy and announced his engagement to Dan Scobey. \u201cGiven my experience,\u201d Thomas said, \u201cI believe Mike Pence is still supportive of ex-gay ministry and he supports the efforts to try to convert people from gay to straight.\u201d Thomas also references working with Kellyanne Conway and other former Republican leaders, lobbying against marriage equality and hate crime legislation.<\/p>\n 07.22.20<\/a> Jenna Ellis, senior legal advisor to Donald Trump, retweets an article that promotes conversion therapy. Psychologists worldwide confirm LGBTQ people cannot change their gender identity or sexual orientation through conversion therapy. The American Psychiatric Association<\/a> condemns such treatment and describes any attempts to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation as unethical. Ellis has a long record<\/a> of racist and homophobic rhetoric, including criticizing<\/a> her own Republican party for any attempt to embrace LGBTQ rights after the Pulse massacre killed 49 people, many of whom were LGBTQ.<\/p>\nInterregnum<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Presidency<\/strong><\/h4>\n