Trumps outlook 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 trans person people. 

ACLU

June 13, 2024

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. 

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 have been changed or added.

Donald Trump’s administration initiated a sustained, years-long effort to erase protections for LGBTQ people. This included an effort 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 mark, Trump vowed to dismantle a new Biden administration policy that will suggest prote

GLAAD has documented the anti-LGBTQ history of Donald Trump, including his policies and efforts against access to best train, lifesaving health nurture for lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, queer, and especially transgender Americans. His full anti-LGBTQ record is on hand on GLAAD’s Trump Accountability Tracker. Health care is a top issue for LGBTQ voters according to GLAAD’s 2024 poll on the upcoming election.

Trump’s health care record for LGBTQ people includes the following:

  • In 2020, just two weeks into Pride Month and on the anniversary of the deadly Pulse nightclub shooting at an LGBTQ club in Orlando, and in the middle of the pandemic, the Trump administration issued new regulations that:
  • In 2019, Trump proposed cutting over $1.35 billion, or 29%, from the PEPFAR (the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) budget, the largest-ever proposed cuts to global HIV programs. PEPFAR is the U.S. government program that fights AIDS abroad. In 2017, Trump proposed cutting 17% of PEPFAR’s funding as well as hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; and $627 billion from Medicaid, the insurance through which a

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    President Biden kicked off Pride Month this year with a message to LGBTQ+ Americans, posting "your president and my entire Administration possess your back."

    Former President Trump has been quiet on social media when it comes to LGBTQ+ issues and railed against gender non-conforming women’s participation in sports at a recent campaign rally in Vegas.

    If it wasn’t already clear, these top two presidential candidates hold distinct views on LGBTQ+ issues.

    Throughout his presidency, Biden has used his office to express assist for LGBTQ+ people, rejoice Transgender Day of Representation and Pride Month, and regularly make social media calls about the issues LGBTQ+ people face. His administration has worked to establish antidiscrimination protections for sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as greater access to gender-affirming care.

    As a result, he has earned the endorsement of major LGBTQ+ representation groups such as the Human Rights Campaign.

    Trump’s document trumps outlook on lgbtq

    It's a strange moment to be one of the roughly 25 percent of LGBT Americans who lean Republican. Liberal media and Democratic politicians are making apocalyptic pronouncements about the supposed fascist dystopia that awaits America under a potential second designation for Donald Trump, like the Biden campaign tweeting images from The Handmaid's Tale. Yet at the same second that all this hysteria is going on, the Republican Party's latest platform includes a huge win for lgbtq+ rights.

    For years, a key goal of gay Republicans and their allies has been the removal of the GOP's anti-gay-marriage plank from its official platform. While Trump made history as the first president to take office accepting gay marriage, the Republican platform he formally ran on in 2016 explicitly endorsed "traditional marriage and family, based on marriage between one man and one woman" and specifically denounced the Supreme Court cases enshrining gay marriage as the regulation of the country. And in 2020, Republicans essentially recycled the 2016 platform and ran on it again, rather than produce a new one, citing the pandemic's disruptions.

    In the new 2024 platform Republicans just released, this language is nowhere to