Trump talks inclusionof lgbtq community in acceptance speech
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07.29.2025 The new director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Jay Bhattacharya claimed: “Making America robust again involves deprioritizing explore that doesn’t have a chance of making America healthy, [such as] a lot of ideological analyze that I think served to create a awareness that the NIH is a political organization rather than the scientific group it actually is.” Nearly 500 NIH staffers signed a declaration noting how the Trump administration has forced the NIH “to politicize research by halting high-quality, peer reviewed grants and contracts” as skillfully as “censoring critical research” on subjects including health disparities, health effects of climate change, and gender identity. Director Bhattacharya made false claims about analyze supporting transgender health protect in supporting stopping future studies. Research from the New England Journal of Medicine and Stanford University finds that providing gender-affirming care significantly reduces incidence of depression, self-harm and attempts of suicide. “Eliminating research that further improves gender-affirming care is not protecting children,” a Johns Hopkins researcher noted, but is “sc
Trump Is First GOP Nominee to Mention LGBTQ Citizens in Acceptance Speech
— -- For the first hour in history, a Republican nominee has mentioned the LGBTQ community in a GOP nomination acceptance speech.
"Only weeks ago, in Orlando, Florida, 49 wonderful Americans were savagely murdered by an Islamicterrorist. This period, the terrorist targeted our LGBTQ community. No fine. We are going to stop it," said Donald Trump, the Republican Party's presidential nominee.
The massacre in Orlando, by gunman Omar Mateen, occurred at the popular gay club Pulse.
"As your President, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology, believe me," Trump added.
After pausing for applause from the audience, Trump went off his speech script to acknowledge the sustain of his statement from Republicans gathered in the arena.
"And I have to say as a Republican, it is so kind to hear you cheering for what I just said," he said. "Thank you."
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The Real List of Trump’s “Unprecedented Steps” for the LGBTQ Community
by HRC Staff •
Post submitted by Lucas Acosta (he/him), former Deputy Director of Communications, Politics
HRC lists Trump's persistent attacks against the LGBTQ community after the RNC claims he's taken "unprecedented steps" in support of the community.
HRC President Alphonso David: “The RNC is hallucinating and progressing misleading and disingenuous rhetoric. Yes, Trump has taken many ‘unprecedented’ steps, but those steps possess been to undermine and eliminate rights protecting LGBTQ people, not empower us. Appointing a little handful of same-sex attracted people out of thousands of nominations and making a very few -- and unfullfilled -- pledges can hardly qualify as accomplishments. Don’t gaslight us. The Trump-Pence administration is the most virulently anti-LGBTQ administration in decades -- the RNC cannot put lipstick on a pig.”
Here’s a list of attacks the Trump-Pence administration has levied against LGBTQ people:
For the full list of Trump’s attacks on LGBTQ people, check in HRC.org/Trump.
- Opposition to the Equality Act: Despite supp
Donald Trump's past statements about LGBT rights
— -- President Donald Trump's surprise tweets this morning announcing a reversal in the policy allowing transgender people to serve openly in the military is one of his clearest policy moves relating to the LGBT group since taking office.
The move marks a shift in his public stance, after his not taking a hard line against transgender rights during the campaign.
The tweets indicate that the Trump administration is ready to ban transgender people from the military. The president's announcement comes after Defense Secretary James Mattis last month delayed the review of an Obama-era policy that allowed transsexual people to participate the military.
Trump never specifically talked about the policy during the campaign, instead tending to discuss about LGBT rights in relation to news events that were playing out at the time.
The 'bathroom bill'
He first spoke specifically about transgender rights when the controversial "bathroom bill" went into effect in North Carolina during the campaign.
Though not committing either way, Trump called it a "very strong" maneuver to force people to use t
Trump on LGBTQ Rights
Conclusion
Across the country in recent years, transgender people and their families possess been targeted by a relentless assault on their rights, their safety, and their fundamental freedom to be themselves. States contain adopted laws criminalizing their health care, attempting to ban them from general life, and even threatening to remove transgender youth from families that value and affirm them. Throughout this political onslaught, the ACLU, our nationwide affiliate network, and our millions of members have remained stalwart in defense of the basic principle that all people deserve the freedom to be themselves and every state should be a safe place to raise every family.
Donald Trump’s promises to accept these discriminatory policies nationwide should be unthinkable, but it is nonetheless a future we’re prepared for. Transgender people are no strangers to government persecution, political slander, or the criminalization of gender nonconformity. They know how to build safety, community, and care among one another, and the ACLU has a century-long history of representing, supporting, and advocating for the powerless, the silenced, the m