CEO Stephen Bannon Railed Against Target Transgender Policy; Manager Kellyanne ConwayÂ Worked for NOM

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Donald Trump wrote on Facebook late Tuesday (above) that he’ll “fight to ensure that every American is treated equally” and “reject bigotry and hatred and oppression in all its forms.”Â

Hours later, it was revealed that Trump is shaking up his campaign, naming Breitbart News head Stephen Bannon as executiveÂ director, and GOP pollster Kellyanne ConwayÂ as manager.Â

As it turns out, those appointments aren’t exactly consistent with Trump’s Facebook post.Â

As recently as May, Bannon railed against transgender rights during an interview with the American Family Association’s Sandy Rios. According to Right Wing Watch, Bannon accused retailer Target of â€œtrying to exclude people who are decent, hard-working people who donâ€™t want their four-year-old daughter to have to go into a bathroom with a guy with a beard in a dress.â€

Media Matters has more on Breitbart News’ penchant for anti-LGBT reporting: Â Â

Breitbart.com regularly publishes articles with anti-LGBT slurs â€œtranniesâ€ and â€œfaggotâ€ in headlines. Breitbart contributorÂ Austin Ruse, president of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) — an organization designated as an anti-LGBTÂ hate groupÂ by the Southern Poverty Law Center — is largely the face of Breitbartâ€™s anti-LGBT coverage. In the past, Ruse used his perch at Breitbart to peddle conspiracy theories about the hate-crime murder of gay teen Matthew Shepard. He described ShepardÂ as a “winsome young homosexual,”Â “achingly handsome,” and “delicately chiseled,”Â and blasted “Matthew Shepard Inc.” for promoting the “lie” that homophobia contributed to his murder. More recently, RuseÂ headlinedÂ a post about HIV rates in the transgender community with the anti-transgender slur “trannies,” accompanied by an image of 15 year-old transgender transgender activist Jazz Jennings.

Meanwhile,Â ConwayÂ is a longtime pollster for the anti-LGBTQ National Organization for Marriage, according to the Human Rights Campaign.

In September 2014, Conway appeared on a panel with former NOM President Maggie Gallagher, where they encouraged Libertarians to take up socially conservative causes, Right Wing Watch reports:Â

Conway told the crowd that â€œvalues voters and libertarians have a great deal in commonâ€ from opposition to â€œbig governmentâ€ and abortion rights to being â€œsick of lawyers in black robes making stuff upâ€ to a refusal to â€œredefineâ€ family to be â€œwhatever feels cool.â€ She also saw an opening to win over libertarians with the Religious Rightâ€™s increasing reliance on persecution rhetoric, or what she called the â€œassault on religious liberty in so many parts of our culture.â€

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