Since Donald Trump took office, LGBTQ citizens and advocates have braced themselves for an onslaught of policy changes and legislation designed to take away hard-won rights, remove protections against discriminations, and otherwise relegate them back to second-class citizenhood. These policy changes have continued through Trump’s second year in office. Here’s a month-by-month guide to all the discriminatory and damaging policy and legislation brought by the Trump administration.
January
The Department of Health and Human Services created a new department called the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division as part of the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). It was created to shield health care workers who discriminate against LGBTQ patients or people living with HIV due to moral or religious objections. Two days prior, Trump declared Jan. 16 Religious Freedom Day and called activism to securing LGBTQ protections “incursions” against core religious beliefs and stated that “No American—whether a nun, nurse, baker or business owner—should be forced to choose between the tenets of faith or adherence to the law.” The Conscience and Religious Freedom Division is intended to “restore federal enforcement of our nation’s laws that protect the fundamental and unalienable rights of conscience and religious freedom.” The division is now working to guarantee that health care professionals with a moral or religious objection to LGBTQ people are legally able to leave them sick and dying.
February
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