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Ahead of Trump\u2019s Reelection Announcement, GLAAD Shines Spotlight on Administration\u2019s 114 Attacks Against LGBTQ Americans<\/b><\/p>\n

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SHOT<\/a>:<\/em>\u00a0Donald Trump in 2016 to LGBTQ community: I’m a ‘real friend’<\/em><\/p>\n

CHASER<\/a>: President Trump has issued 114 attacks against LGBTQ Americans, in policy and rhetoric, since 2017<\/em><\/p>\n

NEW YORK<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Ahead of President Trump\u2019s reelection announcement this evening, GLAAD, the world\u2019s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today slammed the President for his ongoing hypocrisy and attacks against LGBTQ Americans during his term in office, including more than 114 attacks in policy and rhetoric by his administration after initially claiming to be a \u201creal friend<\/a>\u201d toward the LGBTQ community during his 2016 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

However, President Trump\u2019s actions speak louder than his election-year words. From\u00a0ignoring the third-anniversary of the Pulse shooting<\/a>, in which 49 people were killed at Orlando\u2019s Pulse Nightclub, to cutting\u00a0HIV and AIDS research<\/a>, the President continues to show LGBTQ Americans during Pride Month that he\u2019s not a true ally.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the LGBTQ community was felt most vulnerable, Donald Trump tried to pull the ultimate con job by claiming he was our friend. But President Trump\u2019s actions make it obvious he will only offer small steps toward LGBTQ acceptance in exchange for votes,\u201d\u00a0said Zeke Stokes, Chief Programs Officer for GLAAD.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cLet\u2019s make one thing clear, Mr. President: GLAAD sees through your hypocritical games, and we\u2019ll make sure voters know your real record on LGBTQ issues before they go to the polls in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n

LGBTQ acceptance has been threatened by President Trump and his administration since the start of 2017. Not only did President Trump\u00a0ban transgender Americans<\/a>\u00a0from serving in the nation\u2019s armed forces, but his administration has also\u00a0opposed the Equality Act<\/a>, a bill which would provide across-the-board protections for LGBTQ Americans at home, at work, and in their communities. The entire list of the Trump Administration\u2019s anti-LGBTQ actions can be found below or by going to GLAAD\u2019s\u00a0Trump Accountability Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a006.12.19<\/a>\u00a0– After using the Pulse shooting as a campaign move\u00a0in 2016, President Donald Trump failed to recognize the third anniversary of the horrific shooting at Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub, which killed 49 LGBTQ people.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a006.07.19<\/a>\u00a0– The Trump Administration denies all U.S. Embassy buildings from flying the historic LGBTQ Pride Flag on embassy flagpoles in honor of June being National LGBTQ Pride Month.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a006.05.19<\/a>\u00a0– The Trump Administration announced they would cut federal funding for an HIV and AIDS research program being conducted by the University of California.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a006.05.19<\/a>\u00a0– During his visit to the United Kingdom, President Trump continued to use discredited information about transgender Americans — including categorizing trans<\/a> people as drug users — as a means to justify his ban on allowing transgender Americans from openly serving in the country’s armed forces.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a005.24.19<\/a>\u00a0– The Trump Administration announced a new policy stating transgender Americans would not be guaranteed health care protections under the Affordable Care Act, potentially harming 1.5 million trans<\/a> Americans.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a005.24.19<\/a>\u00a0– The Trump Administration announced plans to begin implementing a new policy which would allow adoption agencies to deny LGBTQ couples<\/a> the ability\u00a0to adopt based on so-called “religious exemptions.”
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a005.22.19<\/a>\u00a0– The Trump Administration announced plans to rescind Obama-era policy which asked homeless shelters receiving federal dollars to grant transgender Americans the ability to use facilities according to their gender identity.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a005.17.19<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0NewNowNext<\/em>\u00a0releases report highlighting the anti-LGBTQ record on media mogul Conrad Black, a convicted felon who was\u00a0pardoned by President Donald Trump this week.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a005.13.19<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump declares his opposition to the Equality Act, a direct flip flop from his previous stance on the issue more than a decade ago.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a005.02.19<\/a>\u00a0– The Trump Administration, via the Department of Health and Human Services, issued a new rule allowing doctors and physicians the opportunity to deny Americans health care services based off their so-called religious beliefs, including seeking a “religious exemption” to deny life-saving health care for LGBTQ Americans.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a004.17.19<\/a>\u00a0– The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the agency would no longer be collecting data on LGBTQ youth in foster care programs.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a004.12.19<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump and his administration implement its ban barring transgender Americans from openly serving in the country’s armed services.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a004.10.19<\/a>\u00a0– During a House Education Committee hearing, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos acknowledged that the administration’s choice to rescind the Obama-era bathroom guidance — which added protections for transgender students — exposed trans<\/a> students to additional harassment and discrimination in\u00a0schools across the nation.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a004.05.19<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump congratulates election of Brian Hagedorn, an anti-LGBTQ activist who wants to ban LGBTQ children from schools and believes in discredited attacks on LGBTQ Americans.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a004.04.19<\/a>\u00a0– Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson refused to reinstate housing protection guidelines\u00a0that would prevent LGBTQ Americans from experiencing discrimination while attaining a home, which include access to homeless shelters.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a003.27.19<\/a>\u00a0– Education Secretary Betsy DeVos refused to say on the record whether or not she opposed discrimination against LGBTQ people\u00a0at schools during a House subcommittee hearing on education appropriations.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a003.25.19<\/a>\u00a0– Trump Administration officials within the\u00a0Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE)\u00a0were\u00a0accused of performing abuse\u00a0– including harassment and denying health care services – to more than 12 immigrants who identify as LGBTQ.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a003.12.19<\/a>\u00a0– In a late-night decision, the Trump Administration announces plans to implement its ban on transgender service members from openly serving in the country’s armed forces according to their gender identity, impacting more than 13,000 service members currently who are enlisted.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a003.11.19<\/a>\u00a0– In its Fiscal\u00a0Year Budget for 2020,\u00a0the Trump Administration announced new plans to cut\u00a0$250 million from the Global Fund, slash $1.5 billion from PEPFAR, and \u201climit future spending\u201d on Medicaid \u2013 three components in the ongoing fight against HIV and AIDS.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a002.27.19<\/a>\u00a0– During a House Armed Services Subcommittee hearing on the administration\u2019s ban on transgender services members from serving openly in the armed forces, Trump Administration officials\u00a0used derogatory phrases such as \u201ca transgender,\u201d but they also called gender-confirmation surgery a \u201cdisqualifying surgery,\u201d comparing it to having cancer, heart disease, or diabetes.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a002.08.19<\/a>\u00a0– One day after defending a Michigan adoption agency during\u00a0the National Prayer Breakfast, the Trump Administration confirms they intended to grant\u00a0faith-based adoption agencies federal funds in its upcoming 2020 White House Budget. These faith-based adoption agencies actively use “religious exemptions” as an excuse to deny LGBTQ families the ability to adopt a child.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a002.07.19<\/a>\u00a0– At the annual National Prayer Breakfast, President Trump praised Second Lady Karen Pence for teaching at an anti-LGBTQ school and defended a Michigan\u00a0adoption agency for refusing to serve an LGBTQ family based on so-called “religious exemptions.”\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a001.28.19<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump meets with Ginni Thomas, wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and anti-LGBTQ group Groundswell at the White House. According to news reports, 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 on the verge of deciding whether to take up a case regarding Trump’s ban on allowing transgender service members from serving in the nation’s armed forces.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a001.23.19<\/a>\u00a0– The Trump Administration approved a waiver request by South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, which could give faith-based adoption agencies the ability\u00a0to deny LGBTQ couples<\/a> adoption rights based on so-called “religious exemptions”\u00a0— all while using\u00a0government tax dollars.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a001.11.19<\/a>\u00a0– More than 13,000 federal workers identifying as\u00a0LGBTQ do not receive a paycheck as President Trump’s government shutdown becomes the longest shut down in U.S. history.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a001.03.19<\/a>\u00a0– In a leaked memo by the Justice Department, the Trump Administration considers dissolving the “disparate impact” regulation, which grants marginalized communities (including LGBTQ Americans) legal protections from unintended discrimination in housing, education, and other ways of life.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a001.01.19<\/a>\u00a0– NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine invites Dmitry Rogozin,\u00a0Director General of Roscosmos, to visit the United States. Rogozin, a politician, is vehemently anti-LGBTQ and even compared the community to ISIS.\u00a0\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a012.21.18<\/a>\u00a0– The Department of Justice issued a “Statement of Interest” on a pending case involving the University of Iowa and an anti-LGBTQ student organization. The DOJ sided with the student group that indirectly bars an LGBTQ person from joining their organization. This indirect discrimination is known as a “disparate impact” form of discrimination.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a012.20.18<\/a>\u00a0– The Trump Administration tightens its regulations on access to food stamps, affecting about the 1 in 4 LGBTQ adults who apply for the SNAP program.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a012.19.18<\/a>\u00a0– The Trump Administration discharges two service members in the Air Force after disclosing their HIV-positive status to the Department of Defense.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a012.09.18<\/a>\u00a0– The Trump Administration quietly shuts down a HIV research facility in Montana after the administration objected to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its scientists using fetal tissue as a part of its research to find a cure for HIV and AIDS.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a011.30.18<\/a>\u00a0– The Trump Administration signs a trade agreement with Canada and Mexico\u00a0that makes it clear the United States doesn\u2019t have to proactively combat anti-LGBTQ discrimination in order to adhere to the agreement.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a011.23.18<\/a>\u00a0– The Trump Administration asks the United States Supreme Court to circumvent federal appeals courts and issue a ruling on transgender Americans\u2019 right to serve in the military.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a010.25.18<\/a>\u00a0– In an ongoing effort on the part of the Trump Administration to replace “gender” with a biological-essentialist definition of “sex<\/a>”, U.S. officials at the United Nations are seeking to replace mentions of “gender”, e.g. “gender-based violence”, with alternative terminology, like “violence against women<\/a>,” erasing all references to gender identity and the issues relating to trans<\/a> and gender non-conforming people.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a010.24.18<\/a>\u00a0– The Department of Justice writes in a brief to the Supreme Court that it is legal to discriminate against transgender employees based on their gender identity, saying that banning sex<\/a> discrimination under Title VII in the workplace does not extend to transgender workers.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a010.21.18<\/a>\u00a0– The Department of Health and Human Services proposes in a new memo to change the legal definition of sex<\/a> under Title IX, requiring individuals to identify according to their gender assigned at birth. This change in legal definition would remove nondiscrimination protections for transgender, nonbinary, and intersex individuals.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a010.01.18<\/a>\u00a0– The Trump Administration’s State Department announces a new policy that the same-sex<\/a>, unmarried partners of United Nations employees will not be granted visas to stay in the U.S., effective immediately. In doing so, diplomats in same-sex<\/a> partnerships who come from countries where same-sex<\/a> marriage is illegal will either be forced to marry in the U.S. and risk repercussions, including threats, harassment, and even incarceration back home; quit their jobs; or separate for the sake of one partner’s career.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a07.30.18<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions announces his new ‘Religious Liberty’ Task Force at the\u00a0Department of Justice\u2019s Religious Liberty Summit. As stated by Sessions, the group\u2019s purpose is to ensure that the Justice Department upholds the administration\u2019s guidance for religious exemptions, which he\u00a0released\u00a0in October.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a07.9.18<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump nominates Brett Kavanaugh for the U.S. Supreme Court\u00a0seat made vacant by the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy.\u00a0Kavanaugh has an\u00a0extremely conservative record and has\u00a0the\u00a0support of\u00a0Southern Poverty Law Center-designated anti-LGBTQ hate group Family Research\u00a0Council (FRC).
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a05.11.18<\/a>\u00a0– The Trump Administration rolls back protections for incarcerated transgender people that were intended to mitigate their exposure to sexual assault and abuse, allowing the Bureau of Prisons to \u201cuse biological sex<\/a> as the initial determination for designation\u201d when placing trans<\/a> people for housing, screening, and programs and services.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a05.3.18<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump signs an\u00a0executive order to create a new “White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative\u201d that will be tasked with working on so-called\u00a0\u201creligious liberty\u201d issues across federal agencies.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a04.18.18<\/a>\u00a0– Reporting reveals that President\u2019s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief gave a sizable\u00a0grant to the anti-LGBTQ group\u00a0Focus on\u00a0the Family\u00a0Africa on Sept. 18, 2017.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a04.10.18<\/a>\u00a0– Reporting\u00a0reveals that the White House is seeking to roll back vital data collection on LGBTQ youth by\u00a0raising the minimum age that LGBTQ people can be asked questions about their sexual orientation and gender identity in the\u00a0Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03.23.18<\/a>\u00a0– Reporting\u00a0in Slate reveals that the Trump Administration worked closely with Tony Perkins, head of the\u00a0anti-LGBTQ hate group Family Research Council<\/a>\u00a0to draft their latest policy to implement Trump’s ban transgender soldiers from openly serving in any capacity within the United States armed forces.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03.23.18<\/a>\u00a0– President\u00a0Trump announces a reworked attempt to ban all transgender people from serving in the military in response to the implementation of his original policy being frozen by four different federal courts who declared it likely to be unconstitutional.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03.20.18<\/a>\u00a0– The Department of Housing and Urban Development defends the Trump Administration’s decision to remove guidelines from its website intended to prevent anti-LGBTQ discrimination in homeless shelters by arguing that transgender women<\/a> accessing shelters make people\u00a0\u201cnot comfortable.”
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03.20.18<\/a>\u00a0– The Department\u00a0of Education once again states that it is the Trump Administration’s position to\u00a0refuse to protect transgender students denied access to bathrooms and lockers based on their gender identity, even when faced with court rulings reaffirming that transgender students are protected\u00a0under Title IX.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03.13.18<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump fires\u00a0Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and announces\u00a0plans to nominate anti-LGBTQ and anti-Muslim politician Mike Pompeo as his replacement.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03.8.18<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump hosts Brent Bozell, the anti-LGBTQ founder of the fringe right-wing\u00a0group Media Resource Center, at a White House roundtable.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03.5.18<\/a>\u00a0– The Department Housing and Urban Development Secretary moved to change its official\u00a0mission statement by removing promises of inclusive and discrimination-free communities.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02.28.18<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Following Billy Graham’s death, Trump overlooks his anti-LGBTQ record and praised the work of\u00a0Franklin Graham<\/a>\u00a0who has used the legacy of his father to advance extreme anti-LGBTQ messaging including attacking LGBTQ families and claiming that Satan is behind LGBTQ advocacy.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02.12.18<\/a>\u00a0– The\u00a0Department of Education officially confirms they will not investigate or take action on any complaints filed by transgender students who are banned from restrooms that match their gender identity.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01.19.18<\/a>\u00a0– Reporting reveals that\u00a0Trump administration appointee Carl Higbie had made extreme\u00a0racist, sexist, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBTQ comments on the radio. He was removed from his White House position but\u00a0then hired<\/a>\u00a0by “America First Policies,” a\u00a0nonprofit created by six of Trump’s top campaign aides to back the White House agenda.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01.18.18<\/a>\u00a0– The\u00a0Department of Health and Human Services created a new department that shields healthcare workers who refuse to treat LGBTQ patients or those living with HIV by calming moral or religious objections.\u00a0\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01.16.18<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump promotes anti-LGBTQ religious exemptions in his Religious Freedom Day proclamation.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a012.29.17<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump fires the entire White House Presidential Advisory Council on HIV\/AIDS.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a012.22.17<\/a>\u00a0– President\u00a0Trump sings the GOP tax bill, which targets\u00a0low-income and LGBTQ communities, into law.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a012.15.17<\/a>\u00a0– Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at were instructed not to use the \u201ctransgender,\u201d \u201cvulnerable,\u201d \u201centitlement,\u201d \u201cdiversity,\u201d \u201cfetus,\u201d \u201cevidence-based,\u201d and \u201cscience-based\u201d in official budget documents.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a012.5.17<\/a>\u00a0– White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tells reporters that President Trump backs the position that businesses owners should be able to put up signs saying they won\u2019t serve gays<\/a>.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a012.5.17<\/a>\u00a0– The Department of Justice argues in support of baker who denied service to a gay<\/a> couple<\/a> during the Supreme Court oral arguments for the case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a012.4.17<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump endorses Roy Moore, who has a violently anti-LGBTQ record and multiple well-documented accusations of sexual assault, abuse, and assessment, in the Alabama special Senate Election.\u00a0\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a012.1.17<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump leaves the LGBTQ community and people of color out of his World AIDS Day\u00a0Proclamation.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a010.17.17<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump delivers the keynote address at the anti-LGBTQ\u00a0Heritage Foundation President\u2019s Club annual meeting.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a010.16.17<\/a>\u00a0– In a\u00a0profile on Vice President Mike Pence<\/a>\u00a0that ran in the New Yorker, President Trump reportedly joked of Pence\u00a0when asked about LGBTQ rights:\u00a0\u201cDon\u2019t ask that guy<\/a>\u2014he wants to hang them all!\u201d
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a010.13.17<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump becomes the first sitting president to speak at the\u00a0Family Research Council<\/a>‘s Values\u00a0Voter Summit, a convening of fringe groups united around discrimination against\u00a0LGBTQ people.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a010.11.17<\/a>\u00a0– The Trump Administration’s\u00a0National Park Services withdrew its sponsorship of New York City’s first permanent Pride Flag, located outside of the historic Stonewall Inn, and dropped out of its pre-scheduled participation in the flag dedication ceremony.\u00a0 \u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a010.6.17<\/a>\u00a0– The Department of Justice\u00a0issues a sweeping\u00a0“religious exemptions” guidance which invites\u00a0taxpayer-funded federal agencies, government employees, and government contractors to legally discriminate against LGBTQ employees as long as they cite a religious belief as the reason for doing it.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a010.6.17<\/a>\u00a0– The Department of Health and Human Services rolls back the Affordable Care Act’s birth control benefit, allowing the use of “religious exemptions” to deny health care to women<\/a>, trans<\/a> men<\/a>, and gender non-conforming people who rely on the no-copay contraception benefit.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a010.5.17<\/a>\u00a0– In a Department of Justice memo, the Trump Administration reverses a policy that provided non-discrimination protections for transgender people in the workplace under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a010.3.17<\/a>\u00a0– The Department of Health and Human Services erases all mentions of the LGBTQ community and their health needs in its\u00a0strategic plan<\/a>\u00a0for the fiscal year 2018-2022.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a09.22.17<\/a>\u00a0– The Education Department rescinds the Obama Administration-era Title IX guidance on investigating campus sexual assault; LGBTQ students experience sexual harassment at\u00a0disproportionately high rates<\/a>.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a09.8.17<\/a>\u00a0– Reporting reveals\u00a0the CIA canceled a planned speech about\u00a0diversity and LGBTQ rights set to be given by\u00a0Judy and Dennis Shepard, founders of the\u00a0Matthew Shepard Foundation<\/a>.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a09.7.17<\/a>\u00a0– The Justice Department files an amicus brief in support files an amicus brief in support so-called \u201creligious exemptions\u201d to discriminate against LGBTQ Americans.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a09.7.17<\/a>\u00a0– The Education Department announces they will roll back Obama Administration-era Title IX guidelines which protected sexual assault survivors on college and university campuses.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a09.7.17<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump nominates Gregory Katsas, who worked behind the scenes to promote the implementation of the trans<\/a> military ban and revoke federal guidelines\u00a0that protect transgender students from discrimination, to the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals for the Circuit of D.C.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a09.7.17<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump nominates Jeff Mateer, who has an extensive anti-LGBTQ record including calling trans<\/a> children part of “Satan’s plan,”\u00a0to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a09.5.17<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump ends the DACA program, which protected an estimated 800,000 young undocumented immigrants,\u00a0including 36,000 LGBTQ DREAMers, from\u00a0detention and deportation.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a08.27.17<\/a>\u00a0– Reporting reveals the CIA consulted with Tony Perkins, president of the\u00a0Family Research Council<\/a>, an anti-LGBTQ hate group.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a08.25.17<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump officially directs the Pentagon to move forward with his ban on transgender service\u00a0members openly serving in the U.S. Military. The discriminatory policy is due to take effect take effect March 23, 2018.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a08.25.17<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump pardons former Arizona Sheriff\u00a0Joe Arpaio, a criminal known for terrorizing the\u00a0Latinx community with inmate abuses, unjustified arrests, and racial profiling.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a08.12.17<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump refused to condemn\u00a0white supremacists who chanted violently racist and anti-LGBTQ slogans during a rally in\u00a0Charlottesville, VA.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a08.3.17<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump nominates\u00a0L. Steven Grasz, who has close ties to the anti-LGBTQ group Focus on the Family, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a07.26.17<\/a>\u00a0– An official White House webpage directs readers to an article published by the anti-LGBTQ Heritage Foundation that calls<\/a> being transgender a “psychological disorder.” \u00a0\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a07.26.17\u00a0<\/a>– The Justice Department files a brief\u00a0opposing workplace nondiscrimination protections for the LGBTQ community under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the case\u00a0Zarda v. Altitude Express.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a07.26.17<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0President Trump bans transgender servicemembers from serving in “any capacity” in the U.S. military, threatening to fire 15,000 currently serving troops over Twitter. \u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a07.25.17<\/a>\u00a0– Reporting\u00a0reveals Vice President Mike Pence advocated for the removal of\u00a0healthcare\u00a0benefits for transgender\u00a0servicemembers\u00a0within the U.S. military behind closed doors.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a07.13.17<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump nominates Mark Norris, who supported legislation that allowed mental health counselors to discriminate against\u00a0LGBTQ clients during his time as a TN state senator, to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a07.12.17\u00a0<\/a>\u2013\u00a0President Trump grants a one-on-one interview\u00a0with Pat Robertson, a longtime anti-LGBTQ activist and Televangelist.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a07.10.17\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 In a closed-door and unannounced opportunity,\u00a0President Trump poses for a photograph with notorious anti-LGBTQ activists\u00a0who wish to promote so-called \u201creligious exemptions\u201d that would harm LGBTQ Americans across the nation.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a06.29.17\u00a0<\/a>– Reports revealed President Trump hired anti-transgender activist, Bethany Kozma, to the Office of Gender Equality and Women\u2019s Rights at the US Agency for International Development.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a06.28.17\u00a0<\/a>– The Department of Justice ejected reporters covering a DOJ Pride event\u00a0hosted by LGBTQ affinity groups for federal workers.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a06.27.17<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0The Trump Administration failed to mention the LGBTQ community in their\u00a0National HIV Testing Day statement.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a06.21.17<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Reporting reveals President Trump hired a lawyer who openly supported Russian President Vladimir Putin’s anti-LGBTQ law banning so-called “gay<\/a> propaganda” from Russia, a law that\u00a0Europe\u2019s top human rights court found to be\u00a0illegal<\/a>.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a06.17.17<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Six members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV\/AIDS resigned saying that President Trump “simply does not care” about combating the HIV\/AIDS epidemic.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a06.16.17<\/a>\u00a0– An\u00a0obtained internal memo from the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights reveals guidelines to dismiss complaints about bathroom access filed by transgender students.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a06.15.17<\/a>\u00a0– Department of Commerce removes sexual orientation and gender identity from the agency’s Equal Employment\u00a0Policy; LGBTQ protections have\u00a0been explicitly included since 2010.\u00a0Only after fierce opposition did Department of Commerce Secretary Ross\u00a0change it\u00a0back<\/a>.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a06.15.17<\/a>\u00a0– The Department of Education invites Focus on the Family\u00a0and the\u00a0Family Research Council, two anti-LGBTQ organizations,\u00a0to be speakers for a day-long conference on\u00a0engaging fathers in their children\u2019s education and welfare.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a06.15.17<\/a>\u00a0– The Department of Education\u00a0rolls\u00a0back the Office for Civil Rights’ expansive approach to investigating civil rights complaints that\u00a0to protect LGBTQ students, and other marginalized communities, from discrimination at school.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a06.7.17<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump nominates\u00a0Stephen S. Schwartz, who worked with North Carolina legislators in support of the anti-trans<\/a> legislation HB2, to the\u00a0U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a06.1.17<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0President Trump declines to issue a presidential proclamation designating June as LGBTQ Pride Month, breaking with an eight-year precedent set by President Barack Obama to honor and support LGBTQ Americans during Pride Month.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a05.23.17\u00a0<\/a>– The Trump Administration reveals their budget which includes proposed slashes to programs and departments critical to the LGBTQ community, including Medicaid, Planned Parenthood, and the Center for Disease Control\u2019s HIV and AIDS programs.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a05.22.17<\/a>\u00a0– The Trump Administration grants White House press credentials to a “reporter” from Infowars, a conspiracy\u00a0outlet that regularly\u00a0peddles dangerous, offensive and anti-LGBTQ content.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a05.8.17<\/a>\u00a0– Department of Agriculture issues new\u00a0so-called “religious freedom” policy statement, a move\u00a0praised<\/a>\u00a0by the anti-LGBTQ Family Research Council.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a05.4.17<\/a>\u00a0– President Trump signs a “religious liberty” executive order. Although this EO does not target LGBTQ Americans, it is the first step in what could be a more broader permission slip for discrimination against the overall LGBTQ community.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a04.14.17<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0The Trump Administration files to dismiss a lawsuit accusing North Carolina of discriminating against the LGBTQ community in response to HB2, despite the similarities of the HB142 replacement.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a04.10.17<\/a>:\u00a0A ProPublica investigation reveals the Trump Administration appointed James\u00a0Renne, a key staffer involved in the Bush-era anti-LGBTQ purge of gay<\/a> government employees, to a senior role at the Department of Agriculture.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03.28.17<\/a>: The Trump Administration cancels plans to add the LGBTQ community to its upcoming 2020 U.S. Census, a survey conducted every decade by the federal government to help collect data about living Americans and the United States of America.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03.28.17<\/a>: Under his proposed budget for the U.S. Congress, The Trump Administration offered to cut\u00a0HIV and AIDS research funding under the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03.24.17<\/a>: President Trump appointed anti-LGBTQ activist and former Heritage Foundation employee Roger Severino to lead the Health and Human Services Civil Rights Office, putting the LGBTQ community at risk of losing access to critical and affordable health care.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03.20.17<\/a>: Trump Administration erases the LGBTQ community\u00a0from The National Survey of Older Americans Act Participants and the Annual Program Performance Report for Centers for Independent Living, key surveys that are used to help provide care to American seniors \u2013 including disability, transportation, and caregiver support needs.
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02.22.17<\/a>\u00a0– With help of Attorney General Sessions, President Trump rescinded\u00a0Title IX protections for transgender students in our nation’s schools.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02.02.17<\/a>: ABC News reports that after previously committing to protecting LGBTQ Americans from discrimination, President Trump and his administration had drafted a “License to Discriminate” executive order which would usher in across-the-board\u00a0discrimination against the LGBTQ community.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01.27.17<\/a>: President Donald Trump issued an executive order to indefinitely ban Syrian refugees from entering the United States. This ban includes LGBTQ refugees fleeing the nation in fear of discrimination.\u00a0
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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01.20.17<\/a>: Minutes after Donald Trump was sworn into office, any mention of the LGBTQ community was erased from White House, Department of State, and Department of Labor websites.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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