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Related: About this forumA Second Trump Term Would Be Hell for LGBTQ People
A Second Trump Term Would Be Hell for LGBTQ People
The former president's allies laid out their plan in "Project 2025."
PARKER MOLLOY
FEB 14, 2024
Hello, all. Parker here.
Like a lot of LGBTQ people, Ive been a bit worried about what, exactly, a second Trump administration would mean for my basic rights and ability to live my life in peace. And while the Biden administration has let me down in a number of ways, the playbook being drawn up for a future Trump administration, called Project 2025, is outright terrifying for LGBTQ people.
The very first page of the 920-page Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership bemoans the toxic normalization of transgenderism, and a few pages later includes the phrase, Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology that has no claim to First Amendment protections. For one, being transgender is not an ideology, and information about trans people's existence is not pornography. Still, the Project 2025 document uses this definition before calling for the imprisonment of people who produce and distribute this "pornography.
The document outlines ways the government can effectively ignore the Supreme Courts landmark Bostock v. Clayton County ruling, which found that employers cant discriminate against someone simply for being homosexual or transgender. In another portion, it explains how Trump could essentially legalize medical discrimination against LGBTQ people. The list goes on and on.
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Block also tells me that part of the strategy will likely be for a second Trump Administration and its allies to go after cities and states with strong legal protections against LGBTQ discrimination and make the argument that those policies are preempted by federal law, which will be interpreted through the administration and conservative courts as being anti-LGBTQ. The result of this will be a country without safe states for LGBTQ people.
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A Second Trump Term Would Be Hell for LGBTQ People (Original Post)
LostOne4Ever
Feb 2024
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TexasDem69
(2,317 posts)1. This is a very critical reason for reelecting Joe Biden
LostOne4Ever
(9,603 posts)2. 100+ ∞% (nt)
jfz9580m
(15,544 posts)3. What absolute drivel
I was under the impression that one of Trumps very very very few non-negatives was that he was not quite as homophobic/transphobic as a lot of the GOP. But then again he doesnt have a shred of human empathy so this tracks..
This middle-aged, straight woman has always been an ally.