"In 2025, LGBTQ+ people watched hard-won progress unravel in real time. Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs were dismantled with startling speed, often under the false banner of "fairness." Queer people, particularly trans Americans, were targeted in the military and elsewhere, once again treated as liabilities rather than patriots. LGBTQ+ history was scrubbed from government websites, our contributions quietly erased from history as if they were inconveniences rather than facts."
"Trans people and trans youth bore the brunt of it. Health care bans expanded. School policies treated their existence as controversial. Legislators spoke about them not as children, neighbors, family members, or human beings, but as an issue, a problem to be solved, fears to be exploited, and unfamiliarity as danger. Pride itself was under extreme duress. Funding for Pride marches and LGBTQ+ initiatives disappeared."
Growing older brings perspective and recognition of past misunderstandings and survival of previous hardships. The year 2025 inflicted severe setbacks on LGBTQ+ communities, accelerating dismantling of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs under claims of "fairness." Queer people, especially trans Americans, faced targeting in the military and other institutions and experienced erasure as LGBTQ+ history was scrubbed from government websites. Trans people and youth encountered expanded health care bans and exclusionary school policies as legislators framed them as problems. Pride events and symbols lost funding and visibility, while hate crimes rose amid rhetoric that cast queer existence as threatening.
Read at Advocate.com
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