During his 2016 campaign, then-candidate and pathological liar Donald "Rump" Trump tried to convince the LGBTQ community that he was on their side in fighting discrimination. After nearly three years of his corrupt regime, he's done the opposite. As ProPublica is reporting, Trump has supported "religious" exemptions to civil rights laws that will make it far easier for religious bigots to discriminate against the LGBTQ community. Moreover, Trump has narrowed the regulations and laws against discrimination based on sex to exclude gays and lesbians. Trump has also barred transgender people from enlisting in the armed forces.
ProPublica documents 31 examples of Trump undoing gains by the LGBTQ community, including:
"On July 26, 2017, just months after taking office, the president tweeted that he planned to ban transgender people from military service."
"Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a memo that reversed the Justice Department’s position on whether the Civil Rights Act protects transgender people from workplace discrimination. "
"According to a 2019 report by the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, the Trump administration’s Department of Education has drastically scaled back civil rights enforcement for LBGTQ students."
"The Department of Health and Human Services proposed a rule that would eliminate Obama-era regulations explicitly prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex stereotyping..."
"HHS dropped proposed requirements for hospitals to establish policies that prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation in order to participate in Medicare and Medicaid."That just scratches the surface and doesn't measure the malign effects of Trump's permission slip for his thuggish Red Cap Cult to perpetrate hate crimes against minorities, including LGBTQ people. His close and cynical embrace of far-right evangelical bigots is another sign that he lied about his earlier commitment. In dealing with a pathological liar, expect him to lie and lie and lie.
