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In the second installment of the ACLU’s election 2024 memo series, our experts detail the threats a potential second Trump administration poses to the LGBTQ community, particularly transgender people. 

ACLU

June 13, 2024

In the second installment of the ACLU’s election 2024 memo series, our experts detail the threats a potential second Trump administration poses to the LGBTQ community, particularly transgender people. 

This piece was published before Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential election and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to represent the Democratic Party. No significant facts possess been changed or added.

Donald Trump’s administration initiated a sustained, years-long effort to erase protections for LGBTQ people. This included an strive to “define ‘transgender’ out of existence,” erode protections for transgender students and workers, and weaken access to gender-affirming health care that most transgender people already struggled to access.

While President Joe Biden’s administration reversed much of the Trump-era abuses, just last month on the campaign route, Trump vowed to dismantle a fresh Biden administration policy that will propose prote

Trump on LGBTQ Rights

Conclusion

Across the country in recent years, transgender people and their families hold been targeted by a relentless assault on their rights, their safety, and their fundamental freedom to be themselves. States hold adopted laws criminalizing their health care, attempting to ban them from widespread life, and even threatening to remove transgender youth from families that care and affirm them. Throughout this political onslaught, the ACLU, our nationwide affiliate network, and our millions of members have remained stalwart in defense of the basic principle that all people deserve the freedom to be themselves and every state should be a safe place to raise every family.

Donald Trump’s promises to accept these discriminatory policies nationwide should be unthinkable, but it is nonetheless a future we’re prepared for. Transgender people are no strangers to government persecution, political slander, or the criminalization of gender nonconformity. They know how to build safety, community, and care among one another, and the ACLU has a century-long history of representing, supporting, and advocating for the powerless, the silenced, the m

Background On Trump Sunlight One Executive Orders Impacting The LGBTQ+ Community

by Brandon Wolf •

Overview   

On his first day in office as the 47th president of the United States, President Trump signed a slew of executive orders (EOs) that impact the LGBTQ+ community, as good as many others. It is important to note that executive actions do NOT have the authority to override the United States Constitution, federal statutes, or established legal precedent. Many of these directives do just that or are regarding matters over which the president does not hold control. Given that, many of these orders will be difficult, if not impossible, to implement, and efforts to do so will be challenged through litigation.

Currently, much is unknown about whether or how the administration or other actors will comply with these directives, and in most instances rules will need to be promulgated or significant administrative guidance will need to be issued in order for implementation to occur. These are processes that seize time and require detailed additional plans to be developed. 

Newly Issued Executive Orders

A number of executive efforts yesterday will impact the LGBTQ+ comm

Before returning to the White House 100 days ago, Donald Trump was already the president with the most anti-LGBTQ actions to his name in Together States history. His first administration was marred by: arguing and losing at the U.S. Supreme Court for the right to discriminate against LGBTQ employees; signing laws that undercut anti-discriminatory protections for LGBTQ contractors; deploying federal agencies to exclude and discriminate against gender nonconforming people seeking health care and housing, as well as baselessly banning gender nonconforming troops; and hundreds of other actions. 

The first 100 days of his second administration have been bolstered by an agenda supplied by Project 2025, a plan for a rightwing takeover of the federal government led by the Heritage Foundation, that advocates for government policies reflecting a conservative Christian perspective, opposition to LGBTQ rights, restrictions on reproductive freedom, and the privileging of Christianity over other faiths. 

“The start of this Administration has revealed an aggressively unAmerican agenda that has destabilized the economy, threatened personal freedoms, and attempted to censor exact information and history,” said

Donald Trump's past statements about LGBT rights

— -- President Donald Trump's surprise tweets this morning announcing a reversal in the policy allowing transgender people to serve openly in the military is one of his clearest policy moves relating to the LGBT community since taking office.

The move marks a shift in his widespread stance, after his not taking a hard line against transgender rights during the campaign.

The tweets signal that the Trump administration is ready to prohibit transgender people from the military. The president's announcement comes after Defense Secretary James Mattis last month delayed the review of an Obama-era policy that allowed transgender people to join the military.

Trump never specifically talked about the policy during the campaign, instead tending to chat about LGBT rights in relation to news events that were playing out at the time.

The 'bathroom bill'

He first spoke specifically about transgender rights when the controversial "bathroom bill" went into effect in North Carolina during the campaign.

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