HEALTHCARE

The Department of Health and Human Services created a new department that shields healthcare workers who refuse to treat LGBTQ patients or those living with HIV by calming moral or religious objections.

The Department of HHS published a final rule encouraging hospital officials, staff, and insurance companies to deny care to patients, including transgender patients, based on religious or moral beliefs.

ASYLUM

The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security announced an interim final rule that would block the vast majority of asylum-seekers from entering the US, with deadly consequences for those fleeing anti-LGBTQ violence.

ADOPTION

he rolled back an Obama-era rule now allowing child welfare organizations to choose not to work with prospective adoptive parents who are gay, yet still receive their taxpayer-funded grants.

He announced they are allowing taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to use “religious beliefs” as an excuse to deny placement of children into homes of LGBTQ couples — simply for being LGBTQ.

In 2019, The Trump Administration announced plans to begin implementing a new policy which would allow adoption agencies to deny LGBTQ couples the ability to adopt based on so-called “religious exemptions.”

LEGAL LANGUAGE

President Trump announced his opposition to the Equality Act (H.R. 5), the federal legislation that would confirm and strengthen civil rights protections for LGBTQ Americans and others.

LGBTQ content was deleted from the White House, State Department and Labor Department websites within “minutes” of his having been sworn into office

in 2019, the DOE removes “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as terms to track bullying data for the agency. This eliminates any anti-LGBTQ bullying tracking data from the agency.

The Trump administration has quietly but systematically removed mentions of ‘sexual orientation’ and ‘gender identity’ from executive branch guidelines on discrimination.

In 2017, President Trump fires the entire White House Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.

RELIGION

A directive by the Trump Administration was issued to strengthen access to federal dollars for religious-based organizations — even if the organization is anti-LGBTQ or has an anti-LGBTQ record.

in 2019, they announced supporting allowing faith-based schools to use religion as a so-called “right to discriminate” against LGBTQ teachers and staff and removing pro-LGBTQ curriculum in classrooms.

In 2017, the DOJ issues a sweeping “religious exemptions” guidance which invites taxpayer-funded federal agencies, government employees, and government contractors to legally discriminate against LGBTQ employees as long as they cite a religious belief as the reason for doing it.

In 2017, the DOJ issues a sweeping “religious exemptions” guidance which invites taxpayer-funded agencies, govt employees and contractors to legally discriminate against LGBTQ employees.

VISUALS

In 2019, FHWA) sent a letter to members of the Ames City Council asking the city remove pro-LGBTQ themed crosswalks in the community, citing so-called “federal traffic control standards.”

In 2019, the Trump Administration submits an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule against workplace protections for LGBTQ Americans.

In 2019, The Trump Administration denies all U.S. Embassy buildings from flying the historic LGBTQ Pride Flag on embassy flagpoles in honor of June being National LGBTQ Pride Month.

In 2017, The Trump Administration’s National Park Services withdrew its sponsorship of New York City’s first permanent Pride Flag, located outside of the historic Stonewall Inn

WORKPLACE & BUSINESS

in 2019, The Trump Administration revealed they plan to grant federal contractors the ability to use “religious exemptions” as an excuse to discriminate against LGBTQ Americans at the workplace.

In 2017, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tells reporters that President Trump backs the position that businesses owners should be able to put up signs saying they won’t serve gays.

The Department of Justice argues in support of baker who denied service to a gay couple during the Supreme Court oral arguments for the case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.

TRANSGENDER

MILITARY

Trump said that allowing transgender people to serve in the military would bring “tremendous medical costs and disruption,” however a RAND study said it would only cost 22 cents per service member per month.

In July 2017, Trump tweeted that transgender people could no longer serve in the military.

In a series of tweets in July 2017, President Trump writes: “the United States Government will not accept or allow … transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military.

HEALTHCARE

he rolled back a rule that protected people from discrimination in health care on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation, saying it no longer covered gender identity.

In 2019, The Trump Administration announced a new policy stating transgender Americans would not be guaranteed health care protections under the Affordable Care Act, potentially harming 1.5 million trans Americans.

PRISONS

he rolled back a rule that allowed incarcerated transgender individuals to be housed according to their gender identity, saying they now were to be housed by the inmates biological sex.

SCHOOLS

In 2017, he rescinded the transgender student guidance that said transgender students are entitled to protection that includes the right to use the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity.

The administration has also rescinded Obama-era guidance interpreting another federal civil rights statute as protecting transgender students who want to use the bathroom corresponding with their gender identity.

DISCRIMINATION

HUD proposes a rule that would allow homeless shelter operators to determine which services transgender people have access to. Operators could base their decisions on their own religious beliefs.

U.S. representatives at the United Nations worked to remove references to transgender people in UN human rights documents.

The Department of Justice submitted a brief to the Supreme Court arguing that it is legal to discriminate against transgender employee.

KEY HIRES

he nominated Kyle Duncan to serve as a US Circuit Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Duncan has dedicated his career to limiting the rights of transgender people.

President Trump appointed Kayleigh McEnany, who has a history of using the press to attack LGBTQ people, as Press Secretary.

Preacher Drollinger, who leads a weekly Bible study at the WH believes coronavirus is a “consequential” or “sowing and reaping” form of wrath stemming from tolerance of “a proclivity toward lesbianism and homosexuality.”

In 2019, he appointed notorious anti-LGBTQ activist Tim Wildmon to the White House’s Faith Advisory Council.

In 2017, President Trump endorses Roy Moore, who has a violently anti-LGBTQ record and multiple well-documented accusations of sexual assault, abuse, and assessment, in the Alabama special Senate Election.

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