Trumps attacks on lgbtq community

GLAAD has documented the anti-LGBTQ history of Donald Trump, including his policies and efforts to undermine common safety and bolster abhor groups. The full anti-LGBTQ record is available on GLAAD’s Trump Accountability Tracker. Public safety, amid rising anti-LGBTQ hate and extremism, is a top interest for LGBTQ voters this election season. 

Trump’s ties to violent extremism include: 

• Overtly supporting QAnon, a far-right conspiracy theory which claims that “Trump is waging a secret war against elite Satan-worshiping pedophiles in government, business, and the media.” QAnon adherents have been tied to many vicious acts, including the invade on Nancy Pelosi’s husband in 2023.
• Hosting a dinner for Libs of TikTok’s owner Chaya Raichik in January 2023. Libs of TikTok is an anti-LGBTQ extremist account whose send have preceded dozens of bomb threats and targeted harassment against drag shows, schools, healthcare facilities, and other LGBTQ-inclusive places.
• Telling the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” in the November 2020 presidential debate. The Haughty Boys are a far-right extremist group which acquire become increasingly involved in anti-LGBTQ activity such as showing up

  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 improving misleading and  disingenuous rhetoric. Yes, Trump has taken many ‘unprecedented’ steps, but those steps own been to undermine and eliminate rights protecting LGBTQ people, not empower us. Appointing a tiny handful of lgbtq+ 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 healthy again involves deprioritizing research that doesn’t have a chance of making America healthy, [such as] a lot of ideological explore that I deliberate served to produce a perception that the NIH is a political group rather than the scientific organization it actually is.” Nearly 500 NIH staffers signed a statement noting how the Trump administration has forced the NIH “to politicize analyze by halting high-quality, peer reviewed grants and contracts” as well as “censoring critical research” on subjects including health disparities, health effects of climate modify, and gender culture. Director Bhattacharya made false claims about research supporting trans health care 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
     

     U.S. President Donald Trump has used his first six months in office to enact multiple policies impacting the lives of Gay Americans in areas love healthcare, legal recognition and education.

     On July 17, the government ended the nation's specialised mental health services for LGBTQ+ youth through the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, with the White House describing it as a service where "children are encouraged to embrace radical gender ideology".

     The administration also filed a lawsuit against California this month over state policies that allow transgender female athletes to compete in girls' categories of institution sports.

     But rights groups are fighting back. Nine Gay and HIV-related organisations contain had more than $6 million in funding restored following a lawsuit against three of Trump's executive orders.

     Here's everything you require to know:

     What action has Trump taken on Homosexual rights?

     Trump started his second term on Jan. 20 by signing an executive order stating the Combined States would only recognise two sexes - male and female - before scrapping the use of a gender-neutral "X" marker in passports.

     He said federal funds would not be used to "promote gender ident