Trump.

[Kirsten]

A friend of mine posted this on fb and it literally made me ill. Sure we all know what trump is doing, but this really puts it into perspective a little more clearly I think. Sorry it’s so long, but blame him. ?

 

I'd like to post a list of the horrible onslaught of attacks on LGBT rights (especially trans people) that the Trump administration has done. Be prepared, This is a LONG post.

Anti-Transgender and Anti-LGBTQ Actions
May 24, 2019: The Department of Health and Human Services published a proposed rule that would remove all recognition that federal law prohibits transgender patients from discrimination in health care. Courts across the nation have ruled otherwise.

May 22, 2019: The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a plan to gut regulations prohibiting discrimination against transgender people in HUD-funded homeless shelters.

May 14, 2019: President Trump announced his opposition to the Equality Act (H.R. 5), the federal legislation that would confirm and strengthen civil rights protections for LGBTQ Americans and others.

May 2, 2019: The Department of Health and Human Services published a final rule encouraging hospital officials, staff, and insurance companies to deny care to patients, including transgender patients, based on religious or moral beliefs. This vague and broad rule was immediately challenged in court.

April 12, 2019: The Department of Defense put President Trump’s ban on transgender service members into effect, putting service members at risk of discharge if they come out or are found out to be transgender.

March 13, 2019: The Department of Defense laid out its plans for implementing its ban on transgender troops, giving an official implementation date of April 12.

January 23, 2019: The Department of Health & Human Services' Office of Civil Rights granted an exemption to adoption and foster care agencies in South Carolina, allowing religiously-affiliated services to discriminate against current and aspiring LGBTQ caregivers.

November 23, 2018: The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) erased critical guidance that helped federal agency managers understand how to support transgender federal workers and respect their rights, replacing clear and specific guidance reflecting applicable law and regulations with vaguely worded guidance hostile to transgender workers. While this guidance change did not change the rights of transgender federal workers under applicable law, regulations, Executive Orders, and case law, it is likely to cause confusion and promote discrimination within the nation's largest employer.

August 10, 2018: The Department of Labor released a new directive for Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) staff encouraging them to grant broad religious exemptions to federal contractors with religious-based objections to complying with nondiscrimination laws. It also deleted material from an OFCCP FAQ on LGBT nondiscrimination protections that previously clarified the limited scope of allowable religious exemptions.

June 11, 2018: Attorney General Jeff Sessions ruled that the federal government would no longer recognized gang violence or domestic violence as grounds for asylum, adopting a legal interpretation that could lead to rejecting most LGBT asylum-seekers.

May 11, 2018: The Bureau of Prisons in the Department of Justice adopted an illegal policy of almost entirely housing transgender people in federal prison facilities that match their sex assigned at birth, rolling back existing protections.

March 23, 2018: The Trump Administration announced an implementation plan for its discriminatory ban on transgender military service members.

February 18, 2018: The Department of Education announced it will summarily dismiss complaints from transgender students involving exclusion from school facilities and other claims based solely on gender identity discrimination.

January 26, 2018: The Department of Health and Human Services proposed a rule that encourages medical providers to use religious grounds to deny treatment to transgender people, people who need reproductive care, and others.

January 18, 2018: The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Civil Rights opened a "Conscience and Religious Freedom Division" that will promote discrimination by health care providers who can cite religious or moral reasons for denying care.

December 14, 2017: Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were instructed not to use the words “transgender,” “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “fetus,” “evidence-based,” and “science-based” in official documents.

October 6, 2017: The Justice Department released a sweeping "license to discriminate" allowing federal agencies, government contractors, government grantees, and even private businesses to engage in illegal discrimination, as long as they can cite religious reasons for doing so.

October 5, 2017: The Justice Department released a memo instructing Department of Justice attorneys to take the legal position that federal law does not protect transgender workers from discrimination.

September 7, 2017: The Justice Department filed a legal brief on behalf of the United States in the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing for a constitutional right for businesses to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation and, implicitly, gender identity.

August 25, 2017: President Trump released a memo directing Defense Department to move forward with developing a plan to discharge transgender military service members and to maintain a ban on recruitment.

July 26, 2017: President Trump announced, via Twitter, that "the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military."

July 26, 2017: The Justice Department filed a legal brief on behalf of the United States in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, arguing that the 1964 Civil Rights Act does not prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or, implicitly, gender identity. 

June 14, 2017: The Department of Education withdrew its finding that an Ohio school district discriminated against a transgender girl. The Department gave no explanation for withdrawing the finding, which a federal judge upheld.

May 2, 2017: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a plan to roll back regulations interpreting the Affordable Care Act’s nondiscrimination provisions to protect transgender people.

April 14, 2017: The Justice Department abandoned its historic lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s anti-transgender law. It did so after North Carolina replaced HB2 with a different anti-transgender law known as “HB 2.0.”

April 4, 2017: The Departments of Justice and Labor cancelled quarterly conference calls with LGBT organizations; on these calls, which had happened for years, government attorneys shared information on employment laws and cases.

March 31, 2017: The Justice Department announced it would review (and likely seek to scale back) numerous civil rights settlement agreements with police departments. These settlements were put in places where police departments were determined to be engaging in discriminatory and abusive policing, including racial and other profiling. Many of these agreements include critical protections for LGBT people.

March 2017: The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) removed links to four key resource documents from its website, which informed emergency shelters on best practices for serving transgender people facing homelessness and complying with HUD regulations.

March 28, 2017: The Census Bureau retracted a proposal to collect demographic information on LGBT people in the 2020 Census.

March 24, 2017: The Justice Department cancelled a long-planned National Institute of Corrections broadcast on “Transgender Persons in Custody: The Legal Landscape.”

March 13, 2017: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that its national survey of older adults, and the services they need, would no longer collect information on LGBT participants. HHS initially falsely claimed in its Federal Register announcement that it was making “no changes” to the survey.

March 13, 2017: The State Department announced the official U.S. delegation to the UN’s 61st annual Commission on the Status of Women conference would include two outspoken anti-LGBT organizations, including a representative of the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM): an organization designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

March 10, 2017: The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced it would withdraw two important agency-proposed policies designed to protect LGBT people experiencing homelessness. One proposed policy would have required HUD-funded emergency shelters to put up a poster or "notice" to residents of their right to be free from anti-LGBT discrimination under HUD regulations. 

The other announced a survey to evaluate the impact of the LGBTQ Youth Homelessness Prevention Initiative, implemented by HUD and other agencies over the last three years. This multi-year project should be evaluated, and with this withdrawal, we may never learn what worked best in the project to help homeless LGBTQ youth.

March 8, 2017: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) removed demographic questions about LGBT people that Centers for Independent Living must fill out each year in their Annual Program Performance Report. This report helps HHS evaluate programs that serve people with disabilities.

March 2, 2017: The Department of Justice abandoned its request for a preliminary injunction against North Carolina’s anti-transgender House Bill 2, which prevented North Carolina from enforcing HB 2. This was an early sign that the Administration was giving up defending trans people (later, on April 14, it withdrew the lawsuit completely).

March 1, 2017: The Department of Justice took the highly unusual step of declining to appeal a nationwide preliminary court order temporarily halting enforcement of the Affordable Care Act’s nondiscrimination protections for transgender people. The injunction prevents HHS from taking any action to enforce transgender people's rights from health care discrimination.

February 22, 2017, 2017: The Departments of Justice and Education withdrew landmark 2016 guidance explaining how schools must protect transgender students under the federal Title IX law

[Susan R]

This is terrible!  To see all the erosion this one person has caused makes me sick to my stomach.  I once had 'politics' listed as one of my interests here on this site.  I at one time enjoyed a good debate with people on these topics.  I recently had to remove this interest because since Trump has been in control, it has been a topic I purposely avoid in everyday discussion.  It's sad how far it's gotten out of control.

 

Thanks for sharing this list @Kirsten.  It's fuel for me in case anyone attempts to convince me how this guy is going to make America great again.

 

Susan R?

[Kirsten]

Right?! I was in awe at the sheer length of this list! It’s truly disgusting that this is happening. If this was against just about any other minority people wouldn’t stand for it. Idk when we all changed from human rights for EVERYONE to human rights for people like me and screw the rest. 

[Carolyn Marie]

Mr. Trump and his minions in D.C. don't like trans people much, do they?  Or LGBT people in general.  That is who he is, and who they are.  But, hey, the economy is doing well, so all is well, right?

 

Carolyn Marie

[VickySGV]

It is the people  who hate on LGBT+ that are giving him the praise and adulation that he wants.  If actual sane and intelligent people were giving him the cheering and clapping that feeds him his notion of power, he could be on our side, the problem being that it would be a phoniness that people do not have a strong enough stomach for.

 

[Kris-Boston]

I work for the Federal Government in Boston  and this type of non-sense has allowed a mentally ill man to work in Boston for 50 plus years , he the entire LGBT , plus hits on women who are 40 plus years under than him thinking he may get a date .   Old CSRS pension and many years past the pension max out , working for about 3 bucks and hour and enjoys spreading hate and misery. Sorry both CIS and non CIS women  are not interested in a man with smokers cough , false teeth and other fine features . They refused to fire him for multiple disgraceful  continued  poor conduct  not one event but several an hour . But look at the demographics of this last hurrah of hate .  Good news may be a few years out but its going to happen . Was in Canada last month and a world of difference in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, on the CBC they were talking about expanding health care for prescriptions with a modest co-pay .   

[Cautiousness]

I'm glad to see that the 1st amendment of the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution is evidently quite strong in this forum.  An awful lot of message boards of different sorts don't permit political discussion, at all.  It gives me hope that my own political opinions & perspectives might be honored or respected (if not actually appreciated), should I ever have cause to express them.

 

It would be cowardly of me not to confess that I am one of those persons who's on the other side of the fence, politically speaking, from those whose posts I've read in this sub-forum.  I've voted for Republican candidates for a good number of years now. 

 

I note that mention has made of Log Cabin Republicans, but I also must confess that I've never knowingly met any.  In my locale & county most of our population identifies & votes as just plain Republican; we don't parse ourselves out by sexual orientation or much else.

[Charlize]

My family was quite republican.  My father, as a WW2 vet voted for Eisenhower.  I felt otherwise as i saw corporations making money supplying both sides in the Vietnam War.

At present i couldn't even consider any republican candidate but that's just my opinion.

We do allow political discussion here but if causes a "flame war" where tempers and dialog becomes out of control mods may well step in to the conversation. 

Please remember that this forum is here to help others and share experiences with gender issues.  We are not here to try to change others minds.  We are here to support each other not pull down anyone.

 

Hugs,

 

Charlize