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Protecting rights for LGBTQIA+ individuals

What "the Most Anti-LGBTQ" Election in Decades Means for Trans People

From Mother Jones

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"Project 2025 contains numerous anti-LGBTQ+ provisions. But for queer Americans and their allies, the document’s danger is not just the specific proposals: it is its framing of LGBTQ+ identity as harmful to children. This child protection rhetoric is a proverbial bad penny, turning up again and again to impede queer people’s rights. But each time, the LGBTQ+ community has managed to defeat the argument—and has gained new rights in the process."


What Donald Trump's Election Means for LGBTQ+ Americans

From GCN News

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“Project 2025 is driven by a far-right desire to turn America back to the 1920s, or even further back,” says Bitecofe. “It’s quite clear the goal is a religious-based biblical argument of morality,” targeted against trans rights, the LGBTQ community, marriage equality, and the reproductive control of women."

"Despite Trump’s attempts to separate himself from Project 2025, the ACLU’s Gillian Branstetter describes his positions on LGBTQ rights and the relevant elements of the project as “kind of inseparable. There really isn’t any daylight between what Trump is saying and what 2025 is saying,” Branstetter says. The strongest confirmation of this comes from Trump’s own words."


What You Can Do:  ACLU's Protect Trans Care Now

Screenshot of ACLU website

Use the American Civil Liberty Union's form to contact your Congress person to urge them to protect trans people from discrimination.