{"id":1036140,"date":"2024-06-19T00:42:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T00:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1036140"},"modified":"2024-06-19T00:42:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T00:42:13","slug":"president-biden-is-working-to-protect-lgbtq-americans-civil-rights-from-trump-and-his-maga-minions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/president-biden-is-working-to-protect-lgbtq-americans-civil-rights-from-trump-and-his-maga-minions\/","title":{"rendered":"President Biden is Working to Protect LGBTQ+ Americans\u2019 Civil Rights From Trump and His MAGA Minions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In celebration of Pride Month, we\u2019re highlighting the wins that President Biden and Vice President Harris have secured for LGBTQ+ Americans \u2013 including protecting marriage equality and advocating for anti-discrimination laws. Meanwhile, Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are campaigning on blocking doctors from providing gender-affirming care, undermining civil rights protections for LGBTQ+ Americans, and threatening \u201csevere consequences\u201d for teachers who try to educate students on gender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DNC Director of Outreach Communications Tracy King released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPresident Biden is standing up against Trump and his MAGA minions\u2019 extreme anti-LGBTQ+ agenda. The Biden-Harris administration has reversed Trump\u2019s hateful executive actions that targeted the LGBTQ+ community. President Biden championed the Respect for Marriage Act, protecting marriage equality in federal law. He signed an executive order to protect LGBTQ+ Americans from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity on his first day in office, has continued to push Congress to pass the Equality Act, and became the first president to issue a proclamation recognizing Trans Day of Visibility. Meanwhile, Trump rolled back protections for LBGTQ+ Americans, appointed judges with anti-LGBTQ+ records, and banned transgender soldiers from serving in the military. President Biden is the most pro-LGBTQ+ president in history, and the only candidate in this race who will fight to make sure everyone has the right to be authentically themselves while having the freedom to love who they love.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Day One, President Biden moved to strengthen anti-discrimination rules and reverse Trump\u2019s record of failure, and he continues to fight for LGBTQ+ rights every single day.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Advocate<\/a>: \u201cOn his first day in office, January 20, 2021, Biden signed an executive order assuring that the federal government will not engage in workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, <\/strong>and that it is expected to stand against such discrimination in the private sector as well. The order builds on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, which held that the federal law banning sex discrimination also applied to bias based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Donald Trump’s administration had largely ignored the ruling and had argued before the court for a different outcome.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CBS News<\/a>: \u201cThe Respect for Marriage Act overturns the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which prohibited the federal government from recognizing marriages that were not between a man and a woman. It also requires states to recognize any valid marriage performed in other states, regardless of sex<\/strong>.\u201d

Human Rights Campaign, Press Release<\/a>: \u201cHISTORIC VICTORY: The Respect for Marriage Act is Law\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Advocate<\/a>: \u201cJoe Biden Makes History With Trans Day of Visibility Proclamation\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHere’s another first from President Joe Biden: a White House proclamation recognizing Transgender Day Of Visibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe proclamation, released Wednesday, honored the \u2018trailblazing work\u2019 of trans and nonbinary folks in fighting for equality in the arenas of education, sports, and the workplace. However, it also drew attention to the \u2018high rates of violence, harassment, and discrimination\u2019 faced by this community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump repeatedly said he didn\u2019t support same-sex marriages and now wants to appoint more judges like Clarence Thomas, who suggested <\/strong>Obergefell v. Hodges <\/em><\/strong>should be overturned<\/strong>.<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

O’Reilly<\/a>: \u201cAll right. Gay marriage, favor it?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n


Trump: \u201cI’m against it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O’Reilly: \u201cWhy?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump: \u201cI just don’t feel good about it. I don’t feel right about it. I’m against it and I take a lot of heat because I come from New York. You know, for New York it’s like, how can you be against gay marriage? But I’m opposed to gay marriage.<\/strong>\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201c\u2018I\u2019m not in favor of gay marriage,\u2019 Trump said in an interview that aired late Monday night on Fox News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAsked about his positions on social issues by Greta Van Susteren, Trump said he doesn\u2019t support abortion rights or gay marriage,<\/strong> insisting he\u2019s in favor of \u2018almost all conservative principles.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTrump entered into the gay marriage fray in 2009, when he defended Carrie Prejean\u2019s stated opposition to gay marriage.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maeve Reston, Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cTrump at @FaithandFreedom \u2018I will once again appoint rock-solid conservative judges in the mold of Justices Antonin Scalia and the great Clarence Thomas, who they are going after very unfairly.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cIn it, Thomas calls for not just revisiting Obergefell v. Hodges <\/strong>(same-sex marriage), Griswold and another contraception case, but overturning those precedents as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201c\u2018For that reason, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court\u2019s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence [v. Texas]\u2019 \u2014 a landmark case invalidating anti-sodomy laws \u2014 \u2018and Obergefell,\u2019 Thomas writes. \u2018Because any substantive due process decision is \u2018demonstrably erroneous,\u2019 we have a duty to \u2018correct the error\u2019 established in those precedents.\u2019\u201d
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Trump undermined anti-discrimination laws protecting LGBTQ+ employees. <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cJustice Department Says Rights Law Doesn\u2019t Protect Gays\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Justice Department has filed court papers arguing that a major federal civil rights law does not protect employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation,<\/strong> taking a stand against a decision reached under President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe department\u2019s move<\/strong> to insert itself into a federal case in New York was an unusual example of top officials in Washington intervening in court<\/strong> in what is an important but essentially private dispute between a worker and his boss over gay rights issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018The sole question here is whether, as a matter of law, Title VII reaches sexual orientation discrimination,\u2019 the Justice Department said in a friend-of-the-court brief, citing the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination in the workplace based on \u2018race, color, religion, sex or national origin.\u2019 \u2018It does not, as has been settled for decades. Any efforts to amend Title VII\u2019s scope should be directed to Congress rather than the courts.\u2019\u201d
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HuffPost<\/a>: \u201cTrump Signs Law Quietly Undercutting Obama’s Protections For LGBTQ Workers\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cPresident Donald Trump signed legislation Monday that makes it harder for the federal government to keep track of companies\u2019 labor violations when awarding contracts\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018The [LGBTQ] executive order still exists,\u2019 said Camilla Taylor, senior counsel with Lambda Legal. \u2018It\u2019s still the law that federal contractors are not permitted to discriminate. The problem is contracting officers are not going to be given disclosures about when they do. So the ability of federal contracting officials to deny contracts to bad actors has been gutted.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


<\/strong>Trump tried to remove the word \u201cgender\u201d from human rights documents, announced a ban restricting transgender people from serving in the military that surprised even his senior defense leaders, and now wants to reverse President Biden\u2019s LGBTQ+ protections and continue to push more anti-LGBTQ+ rights. <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian<\/a>: \u201cTrump administration wants to remove ‘gender’ from UN human rights documents\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUS officials at the United Nations are seeking to eliminate the word \u2018gender\u2019 from UN human rights documents, most often replacing it with \u2018woman\u2019, apparently as part of the Trump administration\u2019s campaign to define transgender people out of existence.\u201d<\/strong>
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<\/strong>Forbes<\/a>: \u201cFormer President Donald Trump on Friday said he would undo a new Biden administration policy that will offer protections for transgender students under the Title IX federal civil rights law\u2014his latest promise to restrict LGBTQ rights if elected to a second term\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn January, he released a video detailing a range of policies targeting gender-affirming care for minors, including pressing Congress to approve a federal ban and several measures to restrict federal funding when it came to trans issues\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the video, Trump laid out additional plans for extending the restrictions to schools, promising \u2018severe consequences,\u2019 including potential civil rights violations, for educators who \u2018suggest to a child they could be trapped in the wrong body.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


New York Times<\/a>: \u201cTrump Says Transgender People Will Not Be Allowed in the Military\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPresident Trump abruptly announced a ban on transgender people serving in the military on Wednesday, blindsiding his defense secretary and Republican congressional leaders with a snap decision<\/strong> that reversed a year-old policy reviled by social conservatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMr. Trump made the declaration on Twitter, saying that American forces could not afford the \u2018tremendous medical costs and disruption\u2019 of transgender service members. He said he had consulted generals and military experts, but Jim Mattis, the defense secretary, was given only a day\u2019s notice<\/strong> about the decision.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump appointed a slew of judges with long histories of anti-LGBTQ+ records and views.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cA third of Trump’s court nominees have anti-LGBTQ history, report finds\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cTrump stacked courts with judges ‘hostile’ toward gays, rights group says\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cNearly 40 percent of President Donald Trump’s confirmed federal appellate judges have demonstrated anti-LGBTQ bias,<\/strong> the organization claimed, from opposing same-sex marriage and protecting businesses’ rights to reject gay customers to helping implement the military’s transgender ban.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slate<\/a>: \u201cThe Trump administration\u2019s assault on LGBTQ rights scored a major victory on Thursday when the Senate confirmed John K. Bush to the powerful 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Bush, perhaps Trump\u2019s most controversial nominee to the lower courts, has a long history of making homophobic and sexist comments<\/strong> during his years as an anonymous blogger. Yet every Republican senator<\/strong> (except the absent John McCain) voted to confirm him. Bush, who is 52, will serve a lifetime appointment.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBush\u2019s record overflows with offensive, archaic, and bizarre comments, many directed toward women and sexual minorities. In 2005, he used the word \u2018f****t\u2019 in a speech to a private club,<\/strong> quoting Hunter S. Thompson.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cThe LGBT advocacy group said one-in-three, or 16 of the 59 nominees that Trump has put forth since taking office, have anti-LGBT records,<\/strong> including Leonard Steven Grasz who was recently confirmed to 8th Circuit Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGrasz was rated \u2018not qualified\u2019 by the American Bar Association<\/strong> out of concern that he would be unable to be an impartial judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLambda Legal said Grasz served as the board director of Nebraska Family Alliance, which opposed marriage equality, bans on conversion therapy and anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsweek<\/a>: \u201cTrump’s New Judicial Nominee Believes Gay Judges Shouldn’t Hear LGBT Cases\u201d<\/strong>
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\u201cA report by Alliance for Justice found that Howard Nielson was representing the plaintiffs in Hollingsworth v. Perry, a 2013 case that would have banned same-sex marriage in California. As the case played out, Nielson filed a motion saying chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Vaughn Walker \u2018had a duty to disclose not only the facts concerning his [same-sex] relationship, but also his marriage intentions.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSince the case was about same-sex marriage, Nielson argued that Walker, a Ronald Reagan appointee, could not be unbiased unless he did not intend to marry another man\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe motion was rejected by another judge, but Nielson continued his tirade against the LGBT community by arguing that sexual orientation is a choice, opposing the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling <\/strong>that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Houston Chronicle<\/a>: \u201cCivil rights groups are decrying the president\u2019s choice of several of the nominees, including that of Texas Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Vincent Brown, who once suggested publicly that the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s decision allowing gay marriage could be grounds for Texas to secede again. <\/strong>Brown was nominated to the Southern District of Texas in Houston.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump rolled back protections for LGBTQ+ Americans, allowing homeless shelters and medical providers to deny LGBTQ+ Americans services.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cThe Department of Housing and Urban Development is moving to roll back protections for homeless transgender people by enabling HUD-funded providers of shelters to consider a person\u2019s sex or gender identification in determining whether they can be admitted\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt would turn back requirements under an Obama-era rule that operators of single-sex shelters who receive HUD funding \u2018provide equal access to programs, benefits, services, and accommodations in accordance with an individual\u2019s gender identity.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n


NPR<\/a>: \u201cThe Trump administration on Friday finalized a rule that would remove nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people<\/strong> when it comes to health care and health insurance\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUnder the new rule, a transgender person could, for example, be refused care for a checkup at a doctor’s office,<\/strong> said Lindsey Dawson, associate director of HIV policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation. Other possible scenarios include a transgender man being denied treatment for ovarian cancer, or a hysterectomy not being covered by an insurer \u2014 or costing more when the procedure is related to someone’s gender transition.\u201d
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Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson has supported a seemingly endless list of anti-LGBTQ+ proposals: he\u2019s argued that anti-discrimination laws don\u2019t apply to LGBTQ+ Americans, supported a law that would ban same-sex couples from adopting children, and offered pro-bono legal services to people who oppose marriage equality.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cMike Johnson\u2019s America: Revisit landmark SCOTUS decisions and use government to \u2018restrain evil\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cJohnson argued anti-discrimination laws did not recognize a \u2018behavior\u2019 like homosexuality.<\/strong> \u2018There are laws on the books that prohibit discrimination against people for their immutable characteristics, their race and creed and that kind of thing,\u2019 Johnson said in a 2009 radio interview. \u2018There\u2019s a difference \u2013 and the law has recognized a difference \u2013 between that and homosexual behavior. As something that you do, not an immutable characteristic of what you are.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMike Johnson, the new speaker of the House, voiced support for revisiting Supreme Court decisions that struck down restrictions on the use of contraception, barred bans on gay sex and legalized same sex marriages.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cJohnson supported an Arkansas law against same-sex couples adopting children, citing it as \u2018good public policy\u2019<\/strong> in 2008. In 2013, he opposed President Barack Obama\u2019s appointment of an \u2018openly homosexual\u2019 ambassador, Wally Brewster, to the Dominican Republic, calling it a provocative move against the Catholic country.\u201d
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The Advocate<\/a>: \u201cHouse Bill 707, which Johnson has dubbed the \u201cMarriage and Conscience Act,\u201d would bar the state from punishing businesses and people for their views on same-sex marriage<\/strong> through denying or revoking state licenses, tax deductions or contracts, among other methods. Johnson has said the legislation would prevent backlash or retribution over someone\u2019s beliefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOpponents argue that it would mean doctors could deny treatment to same-sex couples, and contractors could refuse to work on a gay person\u2019s home.<\/strong>\u201d
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Times-Picayune<\/a>: \u201cIn a memo, the organization outlined how government officials can avoid assisting with same-sex marriages <\/strong>while carrying out their job functions and not running afoul of the law. For example, they said parish clerks who issued marriage licenses should appoint a deputy clerk to do so, should they feel uncomfortable serving same-sex couples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cState Rep. Mike Johnson<\/strong>, who works for Freedom Guard, wrote the memo and sent it to all Louisiana government officials Tuesday (July 28). He also offered his legal services to officials who oppose same-sex marriage for free.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MAGA minions across the country are introducing bans to censor LGBTQ+ stories in public schools<\/strong>.<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Los Angeles Times<\/a>: \u201cBook bans are on the rise in U.S. schools, fueled by new laws in Republican-led states\u201d
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\u201cForbidden books are largely by and about people of color and LGBTQ individuals, the group found. <\/strong>Of the books removed in the first half of this school year, 30% are about race, racism or include characters of color, and 26% have LGBTQ characters or themes <\/strong>\u2014 all at a time when library shelves are becoming more inclusive and representative of society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


CNN<\/a>: \u201cIn 2021 and 2022, the ALA reported record-breaking attempts to ban books and more than 30% of the titles challenged included LGBTQ themes. And in the first eight months of 2023, more than 47% of challenges targeted LGBTQ titles, preliminary data shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPulling these stories from shelves, book ban opponents argue, deprives readers of all ages of essential, affirming representation of the LGBTQ community\u2019s lives and history.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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