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GLAAD Calls on White House to Release Official Notes from Meeting with SCOTUS Spouse Ginni Thomas on Transgender Americans, Marriage Equality<\/b><\/p>\n

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GLAAD CEO: \u201cThe fact that President Trump is taking counsel from known anti-LGBTQ activists like Ginni Thomas regarding policies that could impact LGBTQ people should have Americans gravely concerned about the foundations of our government.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The\u00a0New York Times<\/a>\u00a0reports meeting included: \u201cmembers of the group denounced transgender people\u201d [\u2026] \u201csomeone said that gay<\/a> marriage was harming the fabric of the United States\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

NEW YORK<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 GLAAD, the world\u2019s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today called on the White House to release official bookkeeping notes from President Donald Trump\u2019s meeting with Ginni Thomas, the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and her anti-LGBTQ group Groundswell last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0news reports<\/a>, Ms. Thomas led a meeting with President Trump at the White House where participants denounced transgender Americans and claimed the historic, nationwide marriage equality ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court was \u201charming the fabric of the United States.\u201d The Supreme Court is expected to take up Trump\u2019s ban on transgender service members sometime in the near future, and Ms. Thomas\u2019s husband will vote on this critical case.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that President Trump is taking counsel from known anti-LGBTQ activists like Ginni Thomas regarding policies that could impact LGBTQ people and families should have Americans gravely concerned about the foundations of our government, and they deserve to see the official notes that came from that meeting,\u201d\u00a0said Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO at GLAAD<\/strong>. \u201cLGBTQ people know President Trump wants to roll back their hard-fought progress, but this clear display of coordination between the Executive Branch and the wife of a U.S. Supreme Court justice shows Americans the Trump Administration will do anything to push an agenda \u2013 even if it means shredding the checks and balances system. The White House has a responsibility to release official notes from the meeting and provide context in the violently anti-LGBTQ work that Thomas and her organization lead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today GLAAD added\u00a0Ginni Thomas<\/a>\u00a0to its Trump Accountability Project, a list of administration officials and related individuals with anti-LGBTQ activist records. According to GLAAD\u2019s\u00a0Trump Accountability Project (TAP)<\/a>, President Trump and his administration have been the most anti-LGBTQ in recent history, authorizing attacks on the LGBTQ community more than 92 times. For more about these, go to\u00a0www.glaad.org\/trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:\u00a0Ginni Thomas\u2019s Anti-LGBTQ Past<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n