{"id":506030,"date":"2017-08-08T15:21:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T15:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/kayleigh-mcenany\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:46","slug":"kayleigh-mcenany","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/kayleigh-mcenany\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayleigh McEnany"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014In a press briefing<\/a>, asked whether President Trump would lift the ban on transgender military service, now that the Supreme Court ruled employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was prohibited under the Civil Rights Act, McEnany deflected, saying, \u201cI haven\u2019t talked to him\u201d about the policy, then went on to list several false claims about Pres. Trump having \u201ca great record\u201d with the LGBTQ community like attempting to decriminalize being gay worldwide and reducing the deferral period for gay and bi men to donate blood. The Trump administration\u2019s decriminalization efforts have been called \u201cnothing more than a series of self-promoting Twitter photos<\/a>\u201c and the deferral period<\/a> is discriminatory at any length and not based in science. <\/p>\n

\u2014Fourth White House Press Secretary<\/a> under President Trump, following Sean Spicer<\/a>, Sarah Huckabee Sanders<\/a>, and Stephanie Grisham who held no regular press briefings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014Appeared<\/a> on a radio show hosted by Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. She appeared on the same episode as Ken Williams, co-founder of the so-called \u201cex-gay\u201d resource group Equipped to Love, who spoke in opposition to a California bill seeking to outlaw conversion therapy.<\/p>\n

\u2014Dismissed claims<\/a> of marriage discrimination prior the Supreme Court\u2019s marriage ruling as nothing more than \u201cfarcical blabber.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Argued against<\/a> transgender bathroom access on the basis that \u201c this could be utilized by some men, for instance, to go into female bathrooms, it\u2019s happened at Target, which does have the same policy in place. Voyeurism issues where cameras were put by men taking advantage of the policies, not transgender individuals, men, straight men coming in and really being a predator against women.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Argued<\/a> that the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling on marriage equality is a threat to religious rights.<\/p>\n

\u2014Said<\/a> it was \u201cawesome\u201d that late Justice Antonin Scalia criticized a pro-marriage equality ruling.<\/p>\n

\u2014Dismissed<\/a> openly gay CNN anchor Don Lemon\u2019s concerns about Mike Pence<\/a>\u2018s anti-LGBTQ views by saying \u201cMike Pence loves all people.\u201d (video starts at 2:00)<\/p>\n

\u2014Called<\/a> modern feminism an \u201cembarrassment,\u201d suggesting that \u201cthe feminists of today reduce women to their sexuality, and in doing so, set women\u2019s rights back by huge strides.\u201d<\/p>\n

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