Project 2025 and gay people

If implemented, Project would dismantle antidiscrimination protections by removing terms such as "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" from federal laws, allowing for legal. Project ’s “Mandate for Leadership” is a document taking up pages, but has put together a succinct summary of what Project would mean to LGBTQ+ Americans, and The. Project ’s invocation of child protection undermines the basic premise on which America’s LGBTQ+ rights advances were built.

The anti-queer child protection narrative dates back at. Project includes no policy proposals that would forbid gay marriage. However, several of its proposals would roll back anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people and favor federal funding and support for heterosexual marriages over gay marriage. Project attempts to virtually erase LGBTQ+ people from federal protections altogether.

It would also have broad implications for people of color and women across the country. Criminalizing gender nonconformity. And, shockingly, it would try to erase transgender people from public life entirely by using federal obscenity laws to criminalize gender nonconformity. Clayton County , U. This includes Stephen Miller, who is expected to be named deputy chief of staff for policy in his second term. In , Trump also said of the Heritage Foundation plans:.

Additionally, a second Trump administration would take the extreme position that the Constitution entitles employers to discriminate against LGBTQ people based on their religious beliefs, notwithstanding state nondiscrimination laws. This would strip LGBTQ people of nondiscrimination guarantees across a vast swath of federal government programs including Social Security, Medicare, and housing programs, as well as federal government employment.

Contact LiveNews newsweek. They need authentic representation. Her focus is on internet trends, U. The plan further seeks to block access to health care for transgender individuals, particularly through Medicare and Medicaid, and it would reinstate the ban on transgender people serving in the military.

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She added, "We've seen all too often that LGBTQ people experience disproportionate challenges when it comes to kitchen-table issues like fair wages, affordable health care, and simply getting and keeping a job without fear of discrimination and harassment. Do you have any questions about this story? It also outlines measures to remove LGBTQ-inclusive curricula and enforce the use of birth-assigned pronouns, prohibiting students from using names or pronouns that differ from those on their birth certificates.

Although the coercive power of federal funding cannot be underestimated, a coordinated effort by multiple states could force a showdown between medical ethics and state law and a punitive and overreaching federal government. Trump has attempted to distance himself from the project, writing on social media in July, "I know nothing about Project While president, Trump also opposed a proposed Equality Act.

We will engage on every advocacy front, including mobilizing and organizing our network of millions of ACLU members and activists in every state to work to protect LGBTQ people from the dangerous policies of a second Trump administration. Ellis said, "Project is a direct assault on America's middle class and our institutions of government. Just as the Trump administration did in , a second Trump administration would reverse policies allowing transgender people to serve openly in the military.

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By enacting policies supporting a religious right to be exempt from workplace nondiscrimination laws, a second Trump administration could create uncertainty about the enforceability of nondiscrimination laws against those who have religious objections to LGBTQ people. Legal and policy battles — even those that are unsuccessful in the short run — can serve to frame and focus fights over values in ways that are politically resonant in the long term.

Our future depends on it. In addition to rescinding nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people, a second Trump administration would permit faith-based, taxpayer-funded contractors that carry out vital federal government programs e. This could strip LGBTQ people of protections against discrimination in many contexts, including employment, housing, education, health care, and a range of federal government programs.

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