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President Trump’s Executive Orders Will Cost LGBTQ Immigrant Lives
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New York, NY (January 22, 2025) — Obeying President Trump’s inauguration on Monday, he issued a slate of executive orders, some of which goal immigrants and their families and effectively block all pathways to safety in the United States for LGBTQ people fleeing persecution worldwide. (More information below.)
Aaron C. Morris, Immigration Equality’s Executive Director, issued the following statement:
“President Trump’s agenda to detain, deport, and dehumanize people is an affront to fundamental American values. The executive orders will cost lives, separate families, and trap gender non-conforming people in places of extreme danger. They are an overt, illegal influence grab with mortal consequences for LGBTQ people searching safety in the Together States. Instead of scapegoating minorities for political acquire, the United States must remain a nation where all LGBTQ people can openly express themselves without the fear of charge or reprisal. We cannot allow the President to implement these radica
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Across the country in recent years, trans people and their families have been targeted by a relentless assault on their rights, their safety, and their fundamental freedom to be themselves. States have adopted laws criminalizing their health care, attempting to ban them from public life, and even threatening to remove transgender youth from families that love and affirm them. Throughout this political onslaught, the ACLU, our nationwide affiliate network, and our millions of members have remained stalwart in defense of the basic principle that all people deserve the freedom to be themselves and every state should be a safe place to raise every family.
Donald Trump’s promises to take these discriminatory policies nationwide should be unthinkable, but it is nonetheless a future we’re prepared for. Transgender people are no strangers to government persecution, political slander, or the criminalization of gender nonconformity. They realize how to develop safety, community, and care among one another, and the ACLU has a century-long history of representing, supporting, and advocating for the powerless, the silenced, the m
Understanding Executive Orders and What They Mean for the LGBTQ+ Community
by Sarah Warbelow •
The first days of the unused Trump administration have seen a slew of Executive Orders (EOs) from the President, many which victim the LGBTQ+ community. From attacks on nondiscrimination protections in the workplace to attempts to limit the health care access of transgender, non-binary, and intersex individuals to bans on transgender individuals serving in the military, these executive actions attempt to undermine our hard-fought progress.
What Are Executive Orders, and How Do They Work?
But while these orders generate a ton of headlines, confusion, and chaos, they cannot override the United States Constitution, federal laws, and established legal precedent. The President may believe that with a wave of his sharpie, he can rip away our freedoms, but he does not, in fact, have the power to do this unilaterally. Understanding Executive Orders, how they are implemented, and how they legally operate can help us navigate these changes and fight back against them.
U.S. Presidents have long used Executive Orders as a tool to shape policy and direct federal agencies to implement
Background On Trump Time One Executive Orders Impacting The LGBTQ+ Community
by Brandon Wolf •
Overview
On his first day in office as the 47th president of the United States, President Trump signed a slew of executive orders (EOs) that impact the LGBTQ+ community, as successfully as many others. It is important to note that executive actions do NOT have the authority to override the United States Constitution, federal statutes, or established legal precedent. Many of these directives do just that or are regarding matters over which the president does not own control. Given that, many of these orders will be difficult, if not impossible, to implement, and efforts to do so will be challenged through litigation.
Currently, much is unknown about whether or how the administration or other actors will comply with these directives, and in most instances rules will need to be promulgated or significant administrative guidance will need to be issued in order for implementation to occur. These are processes that get time and require detailed additional plans to be developed.
Newly Issued Executive Orders
A number of executive conduct yesterday will impact the LGBTQ+ comm
New executive order removes workplace protections for more than 114,000 transgender federal employees and LGBTQ employees of federal contractors
On January 21, President Trump issued an executive order revoking federal civil rights protections and DEI initiatives. The request reverses protections for transgender federal employees and LGBTQ employees of federal contractors established by President Obama in 2014. The order also eliminates non-discrimination protections for employees of federal contractors based on race, national origin, sex, and religion dating help to the Johnson administration.
A new little by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Statute finds that the order will take away workplace protections for nearly 14,000 trans federal employees and over 100,000 LGBTQ employees of federal contractors, along with many more employees of federal subcontractors.
“Transgender federal employees and LGBTQ employees of federal contractors are protected from employment discrimination by Title VII of the Civil Rights Execute of 1964,” said study author Brad Sears, Distinguished Senior Scholar of Regulation and Policy at the Williams Institute. “However, executive orders provide a dispel sta