Some gay Republicans celebrated Trump recently when it was announced that a 12-month celibacy requirement for gay and bisexual male blood donors was being dropped to three months instead – but Trump later revealed he had no idea it had even happened. Republican efforts to spin Trump’s track record on LGBT+ rights into something positive have largely not worked. The Proud Boys hashtag, which members of the far-right group have been using, was trending Sunday after gay men on Twitter hijacked it and flooded the feed with photos of their loved ones and. Republicans have tried to suggest that Trump is a champion of LGBT+ rights, but they’re wrong. Younger members of the LGBTQ+ community struggle the most with mental health concerns of all the age groups. The bisexual and transgender communities have the highest rates of mental health concerns within the LGBTQ+ population. So, bearing all of this in mind, Trump’s pick for the Presidential Medal of Freedom earlier this year was obvious: the notoriously anti-LGBT+ Rush Limbaugh, who once said gay weddings “normalise paedophilia”. Although being LGBTQ+ is absolutely not a mental illness, many LGBTQ+ people experience mental health struggles. His administration also considered ways to legally erase trans people, and has been linked to numerous anti-LGBT+ hate groups.Īmidst all of this, there is an epidemic of murders of trans people – particularly trans women of colour – but the Trump administration does not seem to care. Meanwhile, hate crime rates reached a decade high during Trump’s tenure as president, and his administration was accused of draining HIV/AIDS funding to pay for child migrant detention. But Trump later admitted that he knew nothing about it. One of the only good things to arise from Trump’s presidency was the recent decision to allow queer men to donate blood after abstaining from sex from three months, instead of 12 months. Last year, the Department of Justice filed briefs to the Supreme Court saying that it’s legal to fire trans people because of their gender identity.Ī later brief from the same department argued that it was legal to fire people based on their sexual orientation.
Hate crimes reached a decade high during Trump’s presidency. The report said the Trump administration has “repeatedly undermined important civil rights protections” through a patchwork of changes to pre-existing regulations.Īnd there are plenty more examples from the last few years of Trump’s presidency.