Trump not knowing he banned being gay

The term "groomers," for example, is a historically anti-gay trope, and "gender ideology" originally demonized feminism. In Marsha P. Johnson's final interview before her death in , the activist later recognized as an icon of the movement that preceded LGBTQ rights in the United States explained why she, a transgender woman, championed a cause that often excluded her.

Many of his directives this term have closely mirrored Project , a conservative policy agenda that explicitly prioritizes eroding LGBTQ rights. He also has not recently supported overturning same-sex. While announcing leadership shifts at the Kennedy Center in February, the president penned a social media post that pledged, in capital letters, to ensure the arts forum would no longer host drag shows "or other anti-American propaganda.

Trump's past appointments of openly gay judges and officials such as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent , in addition to two initiatives during his first term to decriminalize homosexuality globally and end the HIV epidemic by , although his budget proposal would hamper that.

The National Center for Lesbian Rights urges that same-sex couples do not need to fear that their marriages will be invalidated during Trump's incoming administration. Their uncertain futures aside, LGBTQ advocacy and rights groups feel those policies and others have already reaped consequences on the community at large — "the predictable result," said Wolf, "of a divide and conquer campaign.

In the comments section of another, a TikTok user responded to a thread outlining the current administration's anti-LGBTQ actions by saying, "None of that has anything to do with us being gay. But that's become less true in recent years, as lawmakers in Tennessee, Texas and a number of other states repeatedly pushed legislation to restrict access to gender-affirming care , bathrooms and sports teams for transgender people.

The American people voted for a return to common sense, and the President is delivering on every campaign promise supported by 77 million voters and is ushering in our Golden Age. In addition to tangible policies, advocates say that attitudes toward LGBTQ people from the nation's highest office are contributing to higher incidences of violence against LGBTQ people and likely foreshadow harms still to come.

Titled "Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government," the wide-ranging order included instructions for the State Department to prohibit trans people from using gender markers that reflect their identities on official documents, like passports, and instead require that those markers align with the document holders' reproductive organs "at conception.

According to advocates and academics, the administration frequently relies on political strategies to marginalize trans people that have been used against other groups in the past. On Inauguration Day, Mr. Trump declared in his televised address to the American public that "only two genders," male and female, would be recognized going forward by the federal government.

On TikTok, a small but popular band of conservative gay influencers post videos to similarly defend Mr. Trump's record. Trump has not banned same-sex marriage in all 50 states, nor can he unilaterally do so when he takes office in January. Now in its sixth month, President Trump's administration has become the antithesis of progress, many LGBTQ Americans say.

Since then, social and political wins over time grew to encompass everyone represented by the acronym LGBTQ, which stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer. Like many of Mr. Trump's executive orders, that one has faced steep challenges in the courts , and legal experts say its long-term applicability is uncertain as some elements contradict the U.

Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. In response to Mr. Trump's directive to end "radical indoctrination in K schools," the Department of Defense banned books with themes involving gender identity, sexual orientation and race from its schools for children in military families, which receive federal funding, according to a separate lawsuit filed by the ACLU.

Meanwhile, corporations scrambling to comply with anti-DEI orders eliminated or scaled back their partnerships with Pride celebrations around the country after Mr. Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center in February forced WorldPride organizers to regroup because events were either canceled or relocated from the venue.

From health care bans , to sports bans , bathroom bans, a military ban and attempts to erase non-binary gender pronouns from the federal system, Mr. Trump has gained increasingly loud support from a faction of gay conservatives who disavow the "radical LGBT left" and insist his policies aren't at odds with their personal freedoms.

There were also notable moments of silence from the Trump administration, which did not acknowledge Pride Month , even as a global Pride festival took place for several weeks between May and June in Washington, D. LGBTQ people say that wasn't necessarily a surprise after watching their visibility decline in national forums this year, starting with mentions of "lesbian," "bisexual," "gay," "transgender," "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" being scrubbed from the White House website the day after Mr.

Trump's inauguration, in a flashback to his first term. The same conflict exists in Mr. Trump's orders to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, in which he instructed federal departments to "correct" what he called a "misapplication" of the Bostock ruling in their policies.

Since being sworn-in as the 47th president of the United States on 20 January, Donald Trump has enacted a series of anti-LGBTQ+ executive orders, many of which specifically target the trans community. He signed an executive order to enforce that within hours of being sworn in.