Module 2: Anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry

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Trump’s Administration has sought to divide the country against LGBTQ+ Americans, to legitimize discrimination against LGBTQ+ Americans on the false pretext of “religious liberty”, to withdraw protections of law and government from LGBTQ+ wherever a rationalization of any sort can be lashed together from the barest set of facts and stolen principles available.

• HHS issued a proposed rule to legalize discrimination by adoption and foster agencies against LGBTQ+ Americans seeking to become parents: https://www.sfchronicle.com/nation/article/Proposed-rule-could-allow-adoption-groups-to-14806136.php 

• HHS issued a proposed rule to revoke anti-discrimination protections from the Affordable Care Act from protecting transgender Americans from discrimination by doctors: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qv7zax/doctors-may-soon-be-legally-able-to-refuse-to-treat-trans-people 

• Appointed Roger Severino, an attorney noted for advocacy in favor of discrimination against transgender people, to a position as a civil rights attorney in HHS: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9k9bza/lawyer-who-called-trans-women-biological-men-to-oversee-civil-rights-for-hhs 

• Banned transgender Americans from serving in the US military: Trump to reinstate US military ban on transgender people