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<\/p>\nNew York Times Blasts Donald Trump\u2019s Fraudulent Support for the LGBT Community<\/b><\/p>\n
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The New York Times Editorial Board blasted Donald Trump for proclaiming to be a friend to LGBT people while peppering his administration with the LGBT community\u2019s most fervent opponents<\/a>:<\/p>\n At the Department of Justice, where former Attorney General Loretta Lynch last year delivered an impassioned speech<\/a> telling transgender Americans, \u201cWe see you; we stand with you,\u201d her successor, Jeff Sessions<\/a>, wasted no time reversing course. The Justice Department in February withdrew guidance issued to schools on the treatment of transgender students, signaling that it would no longer consider their rights to be protected under a 1972 civil rights law.<\/p>\n The Department of Health and Human Services, which worked to expand access to health care for gay<\/a> and transgender Americans, is now being led by Tom Price, who was a vocal opponent of gay<\/a> rights as a congressman. The agency\u2019s civil rights office, which oversaw regulatory changes that made it easier for transgender people to get insurance coverage for medical care, is now run by Roger Severino, an ultraconservative activist who last year accused the Obama administration of attempting to \u201ccoerce everyone, including children, into pledging allegiance to a radical new gender ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Obama\u2019s last secretary of the Army, Eric Fanning<\/a>, an openly gay<\/a> man<\/a>, was instrumental in nudging the Pentagon brass to allow transgender people to serve<\/a> openly. Mark Green, a Tennessee state senator nominated to replace him, last year called being transgender a \u201cdisease.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the full piece HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n The post New York Times Blasts Donald Trump\u2019s Fraudulent Support for the LGBT Community<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n