Donald Trump signed an executive order yesterday allowing federal contractors to discriminate against LGBT employees.

Trump’s order revokes three previous orders signed by Barack Obama, including Executive Order 13673, the “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Order”.

Signed in 2014, the order required companies receiving sizable federal contracts to demonstrate that they have acted in compliance for at least three years with federal laws prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender stereotyping.

“This administration has made it extremely difficult to enforce these federal laws as applied to federal contractors,” Camilla Taylor, Lambda Legal attorney, told Keen News Service. “It’s sending a message to these companies that the federal government simply doesn’t care whether or not they violate the law.”

Federal contractors will also no longer have to prove compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, which prohibit discrimination based on HIV status and other disabilities.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which bans discrimination based on sex in employment, has suffered the same fate. The Obama administration had previously argued that Title VII’s prohibition on sex discrimination includes sexual orientation and gender identity.

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Despite this turn of events, Taylor claims “the substance of the laws are still there” and that Lambda Legal will fight to ensure employers recognize their obligation to not discriminate against their employees.