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Background On Trump Afternoon 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 skillfully 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 grab time and require detailed additional plans to be developed.
Newly Issued Executive Orders
A number of executive efforts yesterday will impact the LGBTQ+ comm
100 Days Out: Trump v. Biden on LGBTQ Equality for Children and Families
by HRC Staff •
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HRC outlines Trump’s attacks on and Biden’s record and plans for LGBTQ equality for children and families.
Over the coming days, HRC will be stressing the key attacks from the Trump-Pence Administration and the commitments from the Biden administration to undo those attacks and build a better future for LGBTQ people. These are Trump’s attacks and Biden’s tape and plans for LGBTQ equality for children and families:
TRUMP’S ATTACKS
- Allowed foster take care programs to discriminate while accepting tax-payer funds: Trump-Pence Ivory House has proposed a federal ordinance that would strip away nondiscrimination requirements and permit a range of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grant recipients, notably adoption and foster care agencies, to discriminate against LGBTQ people, and in many circumstances religious minorities and women, and still get federal funding.
- Refused visas to partners of diplomats: The State Department began
Trump admin's adoption waiver 'intentionally harms' gays, report says
The House Ways and Means Committee issued a scathing, 34-page report this week accusing the Trump administration of “intentionally” harming LGBTQ Americans and violating a congressional mandate to perform in the best interest of children by permitting South Carolina’s government-funded adoption and foster care agencies to turn away homosexual prospective parents.
The report, “Children at Risk: The Trump Administration’s Waiver of Foster Care Nondiscrimination Requirements,” called on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), led by Trump appointee Alex Azar, to immediately rescind the 2019 waiver granted to South Carolina.
“As subsequent Trump Administration actions confirm, HHS is using the South Carolina waiver as a harmful precedent beyond child welfare, essentially using vulnerable foster youth as test cases for its discriminatory policies across all HHS services,” the report, released by the Democratic-led committee on Wednesday, states.
The Health and Human Services Department, which regulates child welfare agencies, issued the waiver to Miracle Hill Ministries in January 2019 after
If Trump wins the election, he could launch a ‘catastrophic’ rollback of Queer rights
One morning in February, 16-year-old Levi Hormuth took off school, his parents called out of perform, and the three began a five and a half hour drive.
The purpose of the 350-mile trip from their home in St Charles county, Missouri, to Chicago, Illinois, was a routine doctor’s appointment.
Levi, a transgender boy, now 17 and in his final year of tall school, had been a patient at the Washington University (WashU) Transgender Center since he was 13. The center, a brief drive from home, had helped Levi in his transition, providing counseling and eventually hormone treatments at age 15. The testosterone had profoundly positive impacts, Levi and his parents said, helping him overcome significant mental distress stemming from his gender dysphoria.
But in June 2023, Missouri’s Republican governor enacted a bill banning gender-affirming healthcare for youth under 18. The law had an exception for youth favor Levi who were already accessing the care, but WashU, fearing legal liability, stopped prescribing medications to all trans youth.
The finest alternative for Levi and his family was to cross sta
U.S. President Donald Trump has used his first six months in office to enact multiple policies impacting the lives of LGBTQ+ Americans in areas favor healthcare, legal recognition and education.
On July 17, the government ended the nation's specialised mental health services for Gay youth through the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, with the White Property describing it as a service where "children are encouraged to embrace revolutionary gender ideology".
The administration also filed a lawsuit against California this month over state policies that allow transgender female athletes to strive in girls' categories of school sports.
But rights groups are fighting back. Nine LGBTQ+ and HIV-related organisations have had more than $6 million in funding restored following a lawsuit against three of Trump's executive orders.
Here's everything you need to know:
What action has Trump taken on Queer rights?
Trump started his second term on Jan. 20 by signing an executive order stating the United States would only recognise two sexes - male and female - before scrapping the use of a gender-neutral "X" marker in passports.
He said federal funds would not be used to "promote gender ident