"As the second Trump administration passes the one-year mark, LGBTQ+ people across the United States are living through a profound and destabilizing shift. What has unfolded over the past year is a deliberate reorientation of federal power away from civil rights and toward state-sanctioned exclusion. According to advocates at the Human Rights Campaign, this moment is best understood not as a collection of disconnected policy fights, but as a coordinated effort to roll back decades of progress."
"President Trump immediately signed a barrage of anti-LGBTQ+ executive actions, including a reversal of federal nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people and the dismantling of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging initiatives across the federal government. According to prior estimates from the Williams Institute, nearly 14,000 transgender federal employees and more than 100,000 LGBTQ+ employees of federal contractors had previously benefited from these protections."
The second Trump administration reversed federal nondiscrimination protections and dismantled diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging initiatives, shifting federal power toward state-sanctioned exclusion. Nearly 14,000 transgender federal employees and more than 100,000 LGBTQ+ employees of federal contractors previously benefited from those protections, and their removal created immediate uncertainty in workplaces where discrimination was already underreported. Human Rights Campaign advocates characterize the pattern as a coordinated effort to roll back decades of progress. LGBTQ+ federal contractors report chilling effects on reporting, fearing retaliation or being targeted, and workplace protections have become less reliable.
Read at LGBTQ Nation
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]