“President Trump continues to be respectful and supportive of LGBTQ rights, just as he was throughout the election,” the White House says. | Getty White House says it will keep Obama-era LGBTQ worker protections

The White House sought Tuesday morning to calm fears that President Donald Trump will roll back protections for the LGBTQ community, issuing a statement saying he will keep in place a 2014 executive order that bans anti-LGBTQ workplace discrimination.

“President Trump continues to be respectful and supportive of LGBTQ rights, just as he was throughout the election,” the statement reads. “The President is proud to have been the first ever GOP nominee to mention the LGBTQ community in his nomination acceptance speech, pledging then to protect the community from violence and oppression.”


The Obama-era executive order the White House is keeping protects LGBTQ workers from discrimination from companies that do work with the federal government.

The statement, however, does not address whether Trump will issue executive orders repealing other LGBTQ protections or add new religious-freedom provisions that could impact the ability of LGBTQ people to receive government services.

