List of anti-lgbtq trump

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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 improving misleading and  disingenuous rhetoric. Yes, Trump has taken many ‘unprecedented’ steps, but those steps acquire 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, stop by HRC.org/Trump.

1. Opposition to the Equality Act: Despite supp
   

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   07.29.2025 The new director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Jay Bhattacharya claimed: “Making America strong 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 consciousness that the NIH is a political organization rather than the scientific management 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 adv as “censoring critical research” on subjects including health disparities, health effects of climate change, and gender identity. Director Bhattacharya made false claims about study supporting transgender health nurture 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
   

   List of Anti-LGBTQ+ Actions by the Trump Administration

   List of Anti-LGBTQ+ Actions by the Trump Administration:

   https://transequality.org/the-discrimination-administration

   November 5, 2019: The Department of Labor proposed to exempt the TRICARE health care program for military dependents and retirees from requirements not to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. It is not immediately clear whether TRICARE intends to make any changes in its benefits policies. Currently, TRICARE covers hormone therapy and counseling for transsexual retirees and dependents, but DOD interprets the TRICARE statute to exclude transition-related surgery regardless of medical necessity.

   November 1, 2019: the Department of Health and Human Services announced it would not enforce, and planned to repeal, regulations prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation, and religion in all HHS grant programs. These include programs to deal with the HIV, opioid, and youth homelessness epidemics, as well as hundreds of billions of dollars in other health and human service programs.

   November 1, 2019: the Department of Awareness published final regulat
   

   This week, GLAAD’s Trump Accountability Tracker reached a milestone of 300 shameful anti-LGBTQ actions, statements, and policies against the community, from the start of the Trump administration’s first word until today. 

   The list includes approximately 77 anti-LGBTQ conduct since January 2025, when the administration began its second term.

   GLAAD is holding Trump and his administration accountable in the media for every piece of vile rhetoric and every hostile proposed or enacted policy seeking to impair or erase LGBTQ people and the issues that matter to us. Most recently and notably, the administration eliminated the 988 suicide and crisis hotline’s specialized services for LGBTQ youth, a federal program that provided services to approximately 1.5 million youth. Since 2022, the 988 Lifeline provided evidence-backed, specialized services to the country’s highest risk groups for suicide, including veterans and LGBTQ youth. As of July 17, 2025, the option to connect to specialized services for LGBTQ youth is no longer available. (LGBTQ youth in crisis can continue to access the Trevor Project’s crisis services line 24/7 at TheTrevorProject.org/Get-Help at any time.)

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   Look Back: Trump-Pence Administration Timeline

   This archived timeline examines the key moments of the Trump-Pence Administration. It highlights pivotal actions, policy changes, and milestones regarding LGBTQ+ rights and equality. 

   The HRC Foundation's Official report

   Trump's Administrative Maltreatment and the Diverse Community

   This announce highlights the Trump-Pence administration's highly extraordinary and abusive tries to quietly roll back critical protections, programs and services for the Diverse community by bypassing long standing administrative policies and customs for instituting such changes.

   Download the Report

   01/13/2021

   U.S. Dwelling of Representatives Upheld Rule of Rule by Impeaching Donald Trump for Second Time & Senate Must Vote to Convict

   The U.S. Dwelling of Representatives impeached Donald Trump for the second time.

   The House has done its job and it’s now period for the Senate to follow through. Donald Trump must be removed from office immediately.

   — Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) January 13, 2021

   Press Release

   01/08/2021

   The Trump-Pence White Home finalized an 11th-hour regulation that permits discrimination against Gay peopl