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Following Donald Trump’s landslide victory in the presidential election, many people may be looking to his campaign speeches to understand his position on major issues such as LGBTQ rights.
The Republican Party’s electoral promises in this area comprise cutting existing federal funding for gender-affirming care and restricting transgender students’ participation in sports.
Yet as a legal scholar who has written extensively on the history of LGBTQ rights, I possess seen that the clearest indication of how a politician will act once in office is not what they promise on the campaign trail. Instead, it is what they have done in the past.
Let’s examine the records of Trump and the vice president-elect, U.S. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio.
Trump restricted some LGBTQ rights
Trump and Vance are both relatively new to politics, so their records on LGBTQ rights issues are slim. That said, they have both done enough to qualify them as opponents of LGBTQ rights.
Trump enacted two policies restricting LGBTQ rights early in his one designation in office. The first was his executive order Promoting Free Sp
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The American LGBTQ Rights Movement: An Introduction is a peer-reviewed chronological survey of the LGBTQ fight for equal rights from the turn of the 20th century to the early 21st century. Illustrated with historical photographs, the book beautifully reveals the heroic people and key events that shaped the American LGBTQ rights movement. The book includes personal narratives to capture the lived experience from each era, as skillfully as details of crucial organizations, texts, and court cases that defined LGBTQ activism and advocacy.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has used his first six months in office to enact multiple policies impacting the lives of Diverse Americans in areas like healthcare, legal recognition and education.
On July 17, the government ended the nation's specialised mental health services for LGBTQ+ youth through the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, with the White House describing it as a service where "children are encouraged to embrace drastic 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 school sports.
But rights groups are fighting back. Nine LGBTQ+ and HIV-related organisations have had more than $6 million in funding restored following a lawsuit against three of Trump's executive orders.
Here's everything you need to know:
What action has Trump taken on LGBTQ+ rights?
Trump started his second term on Jan. 20 by signing an executive order stating the United States would only recognise two sexes - male and female - before scrapping the use of a gender-ne