Trump on lgbtq marriage
A protester carries a sign as acctivists demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., December 5, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
What’s the context?
Ten years after same-sex marriage was legalised, gay and lesbian couples are uneasy under Trump.
- Decade since Supreme Court legalised same-sex marriage
- At least six states call for ruling to be revisited
- Couples celebrate anniversary with concerns for future
LONDON - When Zach Bolen proposed to his partner Derrick Dobson in 2017, he chose a place that meant a lot to them; the hiking mark where the couple had first met, with a view over their entire home city of Boise, Idaho.
"I drove him to the top, claiming it would be a fun last-minute adventure as we had not been there in a while. I proposed with all of our friends and family behind us to surprise him after," Bolen, 33, told Context.
Now the couple's long-awaited wedding plans are uncertain.
In January, lawmakers in Idaho passed a resolution urging the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the ruling that legalised same-sex marriage across the Combined States.
On June 26, the United States will mark 10 years since that lan
Background On Trump Sunlight 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 skillfully 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 acquire 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 accept time and require detailed additional plans to be developed.
Newly Issued Executive Orders
A number of executive deeds yesterday will impact the LGBTQ+ comm
Trump on LGBTQ Rights
Conclusion
Across the country in recent years, transgender people and their families possess been targeted by a relentless assault on their rights, their safety, and their fundamental freedom to be themselves. States possess adopted laws criminalizing their health care, attempting to ban them from universal life, and even threatening to remove transgender youth from families that cherish 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 accept 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 know how to build 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
Gay couples rush to wed and have children before Trump inauguration
But some male lover couples say they shrink from that after it overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, unraveling half a century of legal precedent, the Supreme Court will rescind their right to marry next.
Those concerns were stoked in 2020 when Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito issued blistering rebukes of Obergefell and signaled that they would be open to reversing it. Thomas again expressed an interest in overturning Obergefell in his concurring opinion in the conclusion to overturn Roe.
Mary Bonauto, who argued on behalf of same-sex couples in Obergefell and now serves as the civil rights project director at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, or GLAD, dismissed the idea that the gay marriage ruling will be overturned.
“I understand that there are things about these times that introduce a lot of uncertainty in people’s lives. I know that,” she added. “But right now, and certainly for the foreseeable future, marriage equality is not one of the things that would change.”
While apprehension among some gay and lesbian couples is true, it’s unclear if the incoming Trump administration has the appetite to roll back the
U.S. President Donald Trump has used his first six months in office to enact multiple policies impacting the lives of LGBTQ+ Americans in areas enjoy healthcare, legal recognition and education.
On July 17, the government ended the nation's specialised mental health services for Homosexual youth through the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, with the White Home describing it as a service where "children are encouraged to embrace revolutionary gender ideology".
The administration also filed a lawsuit against California this month over state policies that allow transgender female athletes to contest in girls' categories of school sports.
But rights groups are fighting back. Nine LGBTQ+ and HIV-related organisations have had more than $6 million in funding restored following a lawsuit against three of Trump's executive orders.
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What action has Trump taken on Homosexual rights?
Trump started his second term on Jan. 20 by signing an executive order stating the United States would only recognise two sexes - male and female - before scrapping the use of a gender-neutral "X" marker in passports.
He said federal funds would not be used to "promote gender ident