Trump’s earlier feedback on homosexual and trans rights make him a transparent risk to the LGBTQ+ group.
Former President Donald Trump has mentioned he will probably be a dictator on “day one.” He and his advisors and associates have publicly mentioned tons of of additional actions to be taken throughout a second Trump presidency that immediately threaten democracy, the rule of regulation, in addition to U.S. (and international) safety. We ignore leaders who promise dictatorship—and people who allow them—at our personal peril. The US, like many different functioning democracies, is hardly immune from backsliding and lurching towards autocracy.
On this three-part American Autocracy sequence, we observe Trump’s feedback on feminist points. This installment: threats to the LGBTQ+ group below a possible second Trump presidency. (Yesterday’s was all about the risk a Trump presidency poses for abortion; tomorrow’s will deal with persecuting his perceived enemies.)
The autocracy risk tracker was initially printed on Simply Safety, a web based discussion board for the rigorous evaluation of safety, democracy, overseas coverage and rights. The authors will proceed to replace that model of the tracker. Under is an excerpt.
Discriminating In opposition to LGBTQ+ Individuals
Trump believes gender transition amongst youth is “left wing gender madness” and mentioned he would go a invoice establishing that there are “solely two genders.” Particularly, he plans to make use of the powers of the federal authorities to scale back gender transition at any age and to ban the usage of hormone therapies and surgical procedures for gender transition amongst youth.
- June 2023: Talking on transgender individuals in sports activities, Trump mentioned, “These individuals are sick; they’re deranged.”
Trump plans to announce that medical amenities offering hormone therapies or surgical procedures for transition will probably be deemed non-compliant with federal well being and security rules, ensuing within the lack of federal funding, together with Medicaid and Medicare. Moreover, he goals to induce Congress to ban hormonal and surgical therapies for transgender minors throughout all 50 states.
- June 30, 2023, Mothers for Liberty Occasion: Trump mentioned, “On Day One, I’ll signal an government order instructing each federal company to stop the promotion of intercourse or gender transition at any age. They’re not gonna do it anymore. I’ll declare that any hospital or health-care supplier that participates within the chemical or bodily mutilation of minor youth now not meets federal well being and security requirements—they are going to be terminated from receiving federal funds efficient instantly.”
- Agenda47, Feb. 1, 2023: “I’ll declare that any hospital or health-care supplier that participates within the chemical or bodily mutilation of minor youth will now not meet federal well being and security requirements for Medicaid and Medicare and will probably be terminated from this system instantly.”
Trump intends to revoke gender-affirming care.
- Agenda47, Feb. 1, 2023: “The Left wing gender madness being pushed in our youngsters is an act of kid abuse. On day one, I’ll revoke Joe Biden’s merciless insurance policies on so-called gender affirming care. Ridiculous. A course of that features giving youngsters puberty blockers, mutating their bodily look and finally performing surgical procedure on minor kids. Are you able to imagine this? I’ll signal a brand new government order instructing each federal company to stop all applications that promote the idea of intercourse and gender transition at any age. I’ll then ask Congress to completely cease federal taxpayer {dollars} from getting used to advertise or pay for these procedures…No severe nation needs to be telling its kids that they had been born with the unsuitable gender, an idea that was by no means heard of in all of human historical past. No one’s ever heard of this. What’s occurring immediately. It was all when the unconventional left invented it only a few years in the past.”
Trump has known as for establishing that there are solely two genders by way of the Division of Training and laws.
- June 30, 2023, Mothers for Liberty Occasion: “I can even take historic motion to defeat the poisonous poison of gender ideology, to revive the timeless fact that God created two genders: female and male.”
- Agenda47, Feb. 1, 2023: “My Division of Training will inform states and faculty districts that if any trainer or faculty official recommend to a baby that they may very well be trapped within the unsuitable physique, they are going to be confronted with extreme penalties. I’ll ask Congress to go a invoice establishing that the one genders acknowledged by the USA authorities are female and male, and they’re assigned at start.” “The invoice can even clarify that Title 9 prohibits males from collaborating in girls’s sports activities.”
Trump refers to gender-affirming care as “baby sexual mutilation” and says he’ll impose a nationwide ban.
- Agenda47, Feb. 1, 2023: I’ll “go a regulation prohibiting baby sexual mutilation in all 50 states.”
- Agenda47, Feb. 1, 2023: “The left-wing gender madness being pushed at our youngsters is an act of kid abuse. Quite simple. Right here’s my plan to cease the chemical, bodily and emotional mutilation of our youth.”
Within the version of the tracker printed on Simply Safety, the authors recommend a number of bipartisan options to autocratic threats. Learn them right here.
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