How a second Trump presidency could impact the LGBTQ+ community

How does that progress? During the election campaign, Trump has been talking about what he plans to do if he is elected in November. Laura Perrone López joins us now. What has Trump said he wants to do regarding LGBT rights? Since the launch of his campaign, he has focused on

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people, transgender people, gender-affirming care, and the ability of transgender youth to play sports. On day one, I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school that pushes critical race theory, transgender madness, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children.

That promise you just heard has become a staple of former President Donald Trump's campaign rallies. William: How much of that is campaign rhetoric? We know that that type of language excites a certain part of your face. How much of that is he talking about compared to what he plans to do? It's not just campaign rhetoric, and his allies have drafted a wide-ranging document titled Project 2025. It's led by conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation to detail a plan for a

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Trump term, specifically on restricting LGBTQ rights. . What it details is the reinstatement of a transgender military band, limiting workplace protections;

Currently, according to the law, sexual identity is protected. It would rescind health care for transgender people and urge Congress to define gender as male and female. Trump has repeatedly said that he would include gender-affirming child care and this manual makes it quite clear that his plan is also trying to stop all recognition and acceptance of gender and LGBTQ identity at one point. There is some pretty surprising language in this plan that says government officials should only recognize marriage between a man and a woman and that a man and a woman are the ideal and natural family structure.

On top of that, Trump outlines a series of policies that essentially help minority groups and would be on the chopping block. When it comes to projecting cuts to diversity by 2025, what the plan would do is remove diversity, equity and inclusion from every piece of legislation, eliminate those offices from federal agencies, restrict teaching about race and racism and urge Congress to prohibit federal cuts. funds for training in critical race theory, has essentially promised during the election campaign to end all DTI programs. William: Are all of those things that he listed within the president's purview? Can he legally go ahead and do those things?

Technically, this depends on Trump enacting a legal concept known as unitary executive theory. This is outlined in Project 2025 and suggests that Trump

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essentially bypass or ignore congressional oversight. We spoke with the University of Baltimore professor about Trump's ability to carry out the 2025 project. With Donald Trump, the question is not so much what the law authorizes, it is whether he has an army of employees who are willing to be loyal to what he wants and putting into practice what he orders, will there be a backlash from Congress, the courts, and voters? If there is no responsibility or resistance, the answer to the question is yes and these things can happen because there is nothing to stop it.

The professor said that this plan depends on loyalists being installed in all areas so that he can carry it out. William: As you and others have reported, these proposed

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changes are quite broad, but the 2025 project has a lot of other things. It's heritage, but who else is behind this project? This draft playbook was created by about 100 right-wing organizations led by the Heritage Foundation, and several of these authors are actually people who worked in the Trump administration when he was president, including Peter Navarro, a former Trump administration official. White House, Roger Severino. of health and human services, and Ken cuccinelli of homeland security.

Everyone has contributed to its writing. They are candidates for a future cabin and if they win re-election. It is a sort of 180-day manual outlining former President Trump's ability to consolidate power under the

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. I spoke to Professor Thomas, who studies authoritarian regimes, and he explained that Trump

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n't necessarily institute this in 2017 because he didn't have the number of loyalists that he plans to have across the board. With these new loyalists, he can promote a white Christian evangelical ideal of American society. This will not be the

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part of the Trump

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. This is quantitatively something different.

He opposes egalitarian democracy because he fundamentally disagrees that all people are equal or deserve to be treated as equal citizens, only those who belong to the "real America" ​​deserve it. So everyone else needs to be eliminated from the nation or at least accept their inferior place in society. The professors added that that type of purge has its roots in McCarthyism of the early 1950s, where they were essentially trying to sweep away anyone in American society who deviated from perceived norms. William: What an important report, thank you very much. Thank you.