LGBTQ Rights Groups ask the Democratic Party to “do more” to protect the rights of gay and transgender Americans to facilitate the rising division of the party on issues such as Trump administration threats and transgender athletes in school games.
“With increasing frequency and intensity, the LGBTQ+ community campaign, state legislatures, Congress and Trump administration are being targeted significantly and rhetorically. A letter To the Democratic National Committee.
The uproar of the executive order signed after President Trump returned to the post in January will clearly target the transgender people, in which the transgender identity has been completely denied. Other orders, which federal agencies, have since proceeded to implement, are to serve people openly in the military, to participate in blocked trans-athletes, to ban accurate identity documents, to ban the access to the sexes, and the federal support for youth’s gender-visual care.
References to transgender people and historical hymns since January have been scrubbed from government websites, including web pages for Stonov ALL L National Monument in New York. It Associated press report The Anola gay aircraft, which released a nuclear bomb on Japan last week, was flagged to remove the removal of the defense department’s websites, mostly because its name includes the word “gay”.
At the state level, this year legislators have already introduced more than 450 bills that threaten to return the LGBTQ rights, According to the ACLU. Last month, Iowa became the first state to create anti -discrimination defense for transgender people from its civil rights code, and many GOP -led states are considering resolutions to re -visit the Supreme Court on its landmark 2015 verdict on the equality of marriage.
“Elected Democratic officials have pushed back, voted, used their Veto Authority, and standing as champions for LGBTQ+ people and especially the transgender community,” a Human Rights Campaign, including Transa Equality, and GLAs, GL. “We know and appreciate those efforts. But party leaders should do more. “
They added, “Some people have suggested a strategy of satisfaction: compromising a little discrimination against our community’s particular misunderstanding and powerless field can satisfy opponent opponents.” “We have fought against the same opponents in decades, in the houses of the state, in Congress, and in the ballet b AT. And we can clearly say that this strategy will not work.”
Some Democrats Grapi with widespread support of the party For transgender rights after the November elections, and efforts to ban transgender athletes from girls and women’s games, an overdose has appeared to be more open – an issue at the forefront of Trump and Republican’s 2024 campaign.
Democratic reps. Tom Suozy (NY) and Seth Mai OUL Lton (Mass) broke from their party on the issue in the days after the election, in which the New York Times said in a separate interview that trans athletes should not be allowed to compete on female sports teams. In January, Reps. Vicent Gonzalez and Henry Queeler, the only Democrats of Texas, were to vote with the Republicans, who passed the law to ban trans-student-athletes from girls and women games.
The defense of women and girls in the Bill, the Sports Act, eventually failed by the Democrats in the Senate.
In his first episode of his podcast last week, California Governor Gavin Newsum (D), a potential contender for the nomination of the Democratic President in 2028, said that he was inappropriate with the conservative activist and critic Charlie Kirk.
FebruaryNew York Times/Ipsos PaulIt was found that the perception perception percentage of the survey believes that trans -athletes should not be allowed to participate in women’s games, and recent PW Research Center Survey It was learned that Americans have supported the overall restricted policies of the trans rights.
However, in the same survey, more than half of Americans said they support policies that protect the transgender people from discrimination in jobs, housing and public spaces.
“We can admit that goodwill Americans, including our political leaders, have not always been fully understood about different people, and the LGBTQ is not exempt from the LGBTQ community,” LGBTQ leaders wrote in a Monday letter. “With good intentions, those who do not have all the answers, it’s okay to be a person – and we are here to support political leaders and people come to a conversation in which they want to understand our community better. But it represents millions of Americans across the country-to cover anti-LGBTQ+ arguments-it represents millions of Americans across the country. “
They wrote, “The future of the Democratic Party should be the one who believes in civil rights and freedom of all, and it shows for communities who are aimed at the wrong information, hatred and bullying of extremist actors.”
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