Oppose Efforts to Dehumanize Transgender and LGBTQ+ People (UPDATED 6/19)
Update
June 19, 2025: The Trump administration has announced they will shut down the national LGBTQ youth suicide lifeline effective July 17th. The hotline has helped more than 1.3 million LGBTQ+ youth since its launch in 2022. Meanwhile, congressional Republicans have proposed budget bills that would block Medicaid and Affordable Care Act plans from covering lifesaving gender-affirming care.
May 8, 2025: In keeping with a Trump executive order, the Pentagon is slated to begin removing transgender service members from the military starting in June. A lawsuit is currently pending to block this hateful attack on transgender people who have literally put their lives on the line to serve the United States.
On the first day of his administration, Trump signed Executive Order 14168, “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government”. This order seeks to erase trans and nonbinary people, asserting that males and females “are not changeable.” This viewpoint ignores extensive scientific evidence. Subsequently, Trump signed additional anti-trans/LGBTQ+ executive orders:
- “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness” not only bans transgender people from serving in the military but also insults and denies their existence entirely.
- “Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation” bans gender-affirming medical care, including puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and surgeries, for “children” under 19 (ignoring that 18-year-olds are legally adults). The prescription of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors is rare, and surgery is even rarer. However, these treatments have life-saving effects.
- “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling” withholds federal funds from schools that teach “gender ideology,” “equity ideology,” or support trans and nonbinary students in social transition (such as by using their name and pronouns correctly).
Furthermore, a list of priorities published to the official White House website asserts Trump plans to “bring back American values” by “establish[ing] male and female as biological reality and protect[ing] women from radical gender ideology.”
These egregious attempts to demonize and erase transgender people must be resisted.
Contacts for this topic:
Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [CITY, ZIP].
I’m calling to demand [REP/SEN NAME] stand up for the rights and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people by:
[Choose 1-3 options]
- Proposing or cosponsoring rights-affirming legislation to prevent denial of legal identification like passports; (and)
- Demanding the reinstatement of the dedicated LGBTQ+ suicide helpline; (and)
- Opposing budget provisions that defund lifesaving gender-affirming care for Medicaid and Affordable Care Act beneficiaries; (and)
- Condemning the Trump administration’s hateful attempts to demonize transgender and nonbinary people; (and)
- Demanding the reversal of hateful executive orders that allow institutions like the VA to discriminate against people based on their gender identity.
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