• Newsweek - Trump administration argues anti-LGBTQ ...

    2019/08/23 · The Trump administration has taken previous steps to remove protections and privileges for the LGBTQ community from both federal case law and departmental policy. In a high-profile LGBTQ ...

  • We Made A List Of All The Anti-LGBT Stuff Trump Has …

    2018/07/31 · The Trump administration’s filing was unusual in part because the Justice Department wasn’t a party in the case, and the department doesn’t typically weigh in on private employment lawsuits. Further, the Justice Department was fighting against a separate, autonomous federal agency that had supported a gay man's case.

  • Trump could allow doctors to discriminate against …

    2020/04/24 · The Trump administration is expected to finalize a rule redefining Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act that protected LGBTQ people from health care discrimination. Protesters block the street ...

  • Gay rights group blasts Trump administration over ...

    2020/01/06 · LGBTQ discrimination and the Trump administration: 'Disappointing but not a surprise' Senior Vice President of Communications at the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Chris Sgro talks to Fox News about ...

  • Under Trump, LGBTQ Progress Is Being Reversed in Plain ...

    2019/11/22 · Donald Trump promised he would fight for LGBTQ people. Instead, his administration has systematically undone recent gains in their rights and protections. Here are 31 examples. The day after Sessions was sworn in as ...

  • Trump administration dismantles LGBT-friendly policies ...

    2018/02/19 · Trump administration dismantles LGBT-friendly policies Despite Trump’s promise to defend LGBT rights, his health agency has blocked efforts to combat discrimination. By DAN DIAMOND 02/19/2018 07 ...

  • A critical point in history': how Trump's attack on LGBT …

    2019/09/03 · The Trump administration has attacked LGBT rights in healthcare, employment, housing, education, commerce, the military, prisons and sports. These efforts, it turns out, were just the beginning ...

  • Trump trend: LGBTQ mentions quietly axed from ...

    2020/01/06 · While the Trump administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the president's LGBTQ track record, one of the administration's spokesmen has touted Trump's pro-gay ...

  • Trump Administration Approves Anti-Gay Discrimination …

    2019/08/25 · W ith an amicus brief filed on Friday, the Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to essentially legalize anti-gay discrimination in the workplace. The brief, from Solicitor General Noel ...

  • Trump has declared war on LGBTQ rights. Here’s …

    2018/07/29 · But the pattern is clear: the Trump administration is engaged in willful destruction of LGBTQ rights on every possible front. The next time anyone tries to tell you otherwise, just remember this list.

  • In One Day, Trump Administration Lands 3 Punches …

    2017/07/28 · WASHINGTON — The Trump administration abruptly waded into the culture wars over gay rights this week, signaling in three separate actions that it will use the powers of the federal government to ...

  • How LGBTQ Legal Rights And Protections Have Shifted ...

    2020/03/02 · The Obama and Trump administrations have used their power to shape legal interpretations of "sex discrimination" in very different ways. Here's a rundown on what's changed for LGBTQ rights in the U.S.

  • Amid Pandemic, Trump Officials Target LGBTQ Health …

    2020/04/28 · The Trump administration is finalizing its rewrite of a provision in the Affordable Care Act that would harm LGBTQ people's access to health care, even in the middle of a pandemic. Section 1557 of the ACA prohibits health care discrimination based on sex and gender identity.

  • Trump administration argues civil rights law doesn't …

    2019/10/08 · The Trump administration urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to rule that LGBTQ people can be fired because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Where it stands: The administration's involvement in LGBTQ cases supplements a 2-year White House playbook to undo many protections the LGBTQ community secured …

  • Whiplash' Of LGBTQ Protections And Rights, From …

    2020/03/02 · The Obama and Trump administrations have used their power to shape legal interpretations of "sex discrimination" in very different ways. Here's a rundown on what's changed for LGBTQ rights in the U.S.

  • Trump administration prepares a rule civil rights groups …

    2019/04/24 · Trump administration officials are working on a new rule that civil rights organizations fear could essentially blow up the nondiscrimination protections of the Affordable Care Act for LGBTQ ...

  • The Discrimination Administration | National Center for ...

    2020/03/19 · Trump’s record of action against transgender peopleSince the day President Trump took office, his administration has waged a nonstop onslaught against the rights of LGBTQ people. In order to keep the administration accountable for its policies and help transgender people keep track of actions taken against us, here are the major changes implemented or attempted by the Trump administration:

  • Trump administration removed LGBTQ protections …

    2020/01/28 · Trump administration removed LGBTQ protections from Department of Interior guidelines The Department says that the protections aren't necessary... but that's not what other Trump administration ...

  • Trump’s first year was awful for LGBTQ rights - Vox

    2018/01/22 · From Trump’s nominations for courts that will decide the expanse of LGBTQ rights across the country to his administration dictating who has basic civil right protections, it’s an agenda that ...

  • Trump Administration Argues Against Protections for LGBTQ ...

    2019/08/30 · Home » Blog » Trump Administration Argues Against Protections for LGBTQ Workers Department of Justice lawyers argue that gay and transgender workers are not protected by the Civil Rights Act While sexual orientation and gender identity are not explicitly protected by federal civil rights law, in recent years, courts across the country have found that Title VII of the Civil Rights …

  • POLITICO - Trump rule to protect contractors who ...

    2019/08/14 · The Trump administration opened the door Wednesday to permitting government contractors to discriminate against LGBT employees with a proposed rule that frames the issue as protecting companies ...

  • Donald Trump’s War On LGBTQ Americans Is Ramping Up ...

    2019/08/21 · Through executive orders, agency rule-making and tweets, the Trump administration has been blasting away at the LGBTQ community from the start. Now, the administration is ratcheting up the stakes, filing a series of briefs ― one late last week and one expected this Friday ― in a critical LGBTQ rights case scheduled to come …

  • Gorsuch Plays Coy In LGBTQ Employment Case : NPR

    2019/10/09 · Gorsuch Plays Coy In LGBTQ Employment Case At issue is whether Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bars sex discrimination, covers gay and transgender workers. Justice Neil Gorsuch (left ...

  • Death by a thousand cuts': LGBT rights fading under Trump ...

    2018/07/05 · Gay rights advocates are sounding the alarm over what they say is a quiet campaign being waged by Donald Trump’s administration to chip away at hard-fought protections for LGBT Americans. While ...

  • Trump Administration Civil and Human Rights …

    2017 On January 27, Trump signed an executive order – the first version of his Muslim travel ban – that discriminated against Muslims and banned refugees. On January 31, under new Chairman Ajit Pai’s leadership, the Federal Communications Commission refused to defend critical components of its prison phone rate rules in federal court – …

  • Gay workers not covered by civil rights law, Trump admin ...

    2019/08/23 · The Trump administration Friday filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing that gay workers are not protected by federal civil rights law.The filing came exactly one week after the ...

  • Whiplash' Of LGBTQ Protections And Rights, From …

    2020/03/06 · The Trump administration does not just demonstrate "a resistance or passivity towards LGBTQ rights," Kreis says. "It's openly hostile in a way that I don't think anyone really quite could have predicted."

  • The Atlantic - Why Trump Is Rolling Back LGBTQ Health ...

    2019/05/24 · LGBTQ activists are concerned that rule changes from the Trump administration will affect their access to health care. Updated on May 24, 2019 at 5:29 p.m. EST On Friday, Donald Trump’s ...

  • Trump administration deletes apology to LGBT people …

    2017/01/24 · The Human Rights Campaign condemned the removal of the apology note and suggested that it was indicative of the Trump administration’s regressive approach to LGBTQ rights. “With each passing ...

  • HuffPost - Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court …

    2019/08/17 · The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to set a legal precedent that would make it OK for an employer to fire a person for being transgender. In a brief filed Friday , the Justice Department argued that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 only protects workers from discrimination based on their “biological sex.”

  • Whiplash' Of LGBTQ Protections And Rights, From …

    2020/03/06 · The Trump administration does not just demonstrate "a resistance or passivity towards LGBTQ rights," Kreis says. "It's openly hostile in a way that I don't think anyone really quite could have predicted."

  • Gay workers not covered by civil rights law, Trump admin ...

    2019/08/23 · The Trump administration Friday filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing that gay workers are not protected by federal civil rights law.The filing came exactly one week after the ...

  • Business Insider - The Trump administration declared …

    2017/07/27 · The Department of Justice has filed a brief saying that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Employment lawyer and partner at Constangy ...

  • The Atlantic - Trump's Battle Over LGBT Discrimination …

    2017/07/28 · The Trump administration steps into an on-going legal battle over civil rights—and steps on another agency’s turf. Enter the battling briefs. In June, the EEOC weighed in supporting Zarda ...

  • Americans' perception of LGBTQ rights under federal …

    2019/06/12 · In 30 U.S. states, LGBTQ people are at risk of being fired, evicted from their homes and denied services because of their sexual orientation and gender identity, according to the Human Rights ...

  • Human Rights Campaign - Trump Administration Votes ...

    2017/10/03 · WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, reacted to the Trump administration's vote against a United Nations resolution condemning the death penalty as a punishment for consensual same-sex …

  • Timeline of Trump administration's civil and human rights ...

    2018/01/30 · In its first year, the Trump administration has launched an across-the-board assault on our nation's civil and human rights. Today, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights issued a

  • Trump Administration and LGBTQ Rights | Ben & Jerry’s

    2017/09/06 · Well, President Donald Trump, it’s safe to say, has had a decidedly different take on the importance and sanctity of LGBTQ rights. Let’s take a look at 9 ways the Trump administration has proven that it doesn’t care

  • Trump Administration Civil and Human Rights …

    2017 On January 27, Trump signed an executive order – the first version of his Muslim travel ban – that discriminated against Muslims and banned refugees. On January 31, under new Chairman Ajit Pai’s leadership, the Federal Communications Commission refused to defend critical components of its prison phone rate rules in federal court – …

  • U.S. Supreme Court divided on LGBT employment …

    2019/10/09 · LGBTQ activists and supporters block the street outside the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears arguments in a major LGBT rights case on whether a federal anti-discrimination law that prohibits ...

  • Trump Proposal Targets LGBTQ Employee Rights – Gay ...

    2019/08/16 · In a move that advocacy groups say will breed discrimination against the LGBTQ community, religious minorities, and women, the Trump administration on August 14 proposed a new rule giving federal contractors wide berth to use religion to justify discrimination in employment. The administration’s proposal represents an …

  • How President Trump Has Affected LGBTQ RIghts | Time

    2018/01/16 · The administration’s anti-LGBTQ actions are as numerous as they are insidious. President Trump announced his attempt to ban transgender people from the military, the LGBTQ community was erased ...

  • Trump's Labor Rule Lets Businesses Discriminate On …

    2019/08/14 · Trump’s Latest Proposal Would Let Businesses Discriminate Based On LGBTQ Status, Race, Religion, And More The rule, which applies to many federal contractors, is Trump’s latest move to let religious people sidestep civil rights policies.

  • Trump's Support for LGBTQ Rights in U.N. Speech …

    2019/09/24 · GLAAD, though, noted that decriminalization efforts had begun during Obama’s presidency and that the Trump administration’s record provided evidence of its real approach to LGBTQ rights.

  • Biden says LGBTQ rights a priority, denounces Trump ...

    2019/06/02 · Biden denounced the Trump administration for attempting to roll back LGBTQ rights protection. He accused President Trump and the White House of having a "bully pulpit" to "callously" extend power over the most vulnerable, "implementing the most discriminatory policies like Muslim bans, turning away asylum seekers, putting children …

  • 26 Ways The Trump Administration Is Harming the LGBTQ ...

    2018/11/17 · However, civil rights groups and LGBTQ organizations swiftly denounced this move by the Trump administration as nothing more than a politically motivated action with dangerous, and potentially life-threatening consequences for

  • Donald Trump | GLAAD

    2020/04/09 · President of the United States Presidency 04.08.20 - President Trump appointed Kayleigh McEnany, who has a history of using the press to attack LGBTQ people, as Press Secretary. 04.03.20 - The Trump Adminsitration's Department of Justice filed a “statement of interest” in U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, which …

  • THE TRUMP-PENCE ADMINISTRATION’S CRUSADE ...

    extensive, explicit attacks on LGBTQ equality, the Trump-Pence Administration has targeted many of the most marginalized within our community — from banning Muslim refugees, to undermining voting rights, to putting the lives and livelihoods of 75,000 LGBTQ Dreamers at risk.

  • How the Trump Administration's Supreme Court Filing …

    2019/08/29 · This month, the Trump Administration opposed protections for LGBTQ workers in the U.S., arguing that existing laws should not cover discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual ...

  • Supreme Court Decisions May Impact LGBTQ Employment ...

    2020/05/08 · While LGBTQ people nervously await the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions regarding two major employment-discrimination cases, the Court also heard argume Trump administration seeks to restrict reproductive rights and …