Wh ls than two weeks left office, the admistratn of US Print Donald Tmp has falized yet another le rollg back nondiscrimatn protectns for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people seekg the servic of health and welfare programs fund by the US Department of Health and Human Servic.
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WHAT ARE TMP’S VIEWS ON THE LGBTQ MUNY AND GAY MARRIAGE?
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]The month of June was filled wh big moments for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr that monthlong stretch, the Supreme Court renred a sweepg cisn providg workplace protectns for gay and transgenr people. Tmp, who durg his 2016 printial mpaign ed gay people as a wedge agast Mlims, whom he pated broadly as extremists, followg the shootgs at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub by a Mlim man.
Tmp has signaled a willgns to publicly align himself wh some gay men and women, he selected a eply nservative nng mate Vice Print Mike Pence, and, as print, has systematilly dismantled protectns implemented by Print Barack Obama, pecially for transgenr over two months before Electn Day, Mr. Aln that had been expected June, blamg the lay on the now Tmp officials are turng to Richard Grenell, the openly gay former U. Grenell referred to his own appotment, as well as to the print’s acceptance of the Supreme Court’s lg of gay marriage as nstutnal and his efforts to ph untri that crimalize beg gay to end those practic.
DeSantis' mpaign shared a vio that attacked Tmp for his support of LGBTQ rights, promptg wispread backlash. Both ndidat have rolled back protectns for trans and gay people office. * lgbt and trump *
Grenell specifilly mentned gays and lbians, but not transgenr the night before Mr. ”Some admistratn officials have acknowledged that they see targetg transgenr rights as different om gay rights. Transmissns the untry by 2030, and sayg the print “lnched a global mpaign to crimalize homosexualy, standg solidary wh all L.
The Tmp jtice partment is phg to make legal to fire people for beg gay or transgenr * lgbt and trump *
Tmp’s mpaign to crimalize homosexualy has had any impact, or that ’s been substantially different than what Mr. Tmp had raised the btal anti-gay purg by the Chechen lear Ramzan Kadyrov wh Print Vladimir V. People has ually been nnectn wh celebry or support they have given Tmp allowed gay members to his Florida club Mar-a-Lago as long as they uld pay the exorbant membership fee; he broadst donatns to groups like the Gay Men’s Health Crisis when the AIDS epimic beme a celebry e; and he publicly embraced the civil unn between the sger Elton John, someone whose mic and fame Mr.
Tmp to say that the party did not agree wh him on a number of issu, cludg gay marriage, even though he’d never publicly supported after Mr.
The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal. * lgbt and trump *
”Christe Qun, the first openly gay speaker of the New York Cy Council, said Mr. Tmp’s embrace of iativ promotg relig eedom has been ed by people si and outsi his ernment to jtify discrimatn agast gay and transgenr Kelly/RtersOver many years, Mr. Tmp was qutned about whether he would nsir rcdg his ban on transgenr people enterg the ary by a reporter for The Washgton Bla, a gay Tmp gtured to his ch, appearg to signal the reporter’s mask was mufflg him.