The administration can assert that federal civil rights laws don’t cover anti-LGBTQ discrimination. This would strip LGBTQ people from the protections against losing housing, insurance, medical care, education, and a range of other federal programs. Thousands of LGBTQ people would lose the right to live freely without fear. The extreme push for these policies has the potential to even criminalize gender nonconformity, by equating transgender people with being obscene. Mr. Trump has already vehemently opposed the Equality Act, which ensured that existing civil rights protections cover sexual orientation and gender identity in the way that they do for race, disability, veteran status, and more. The Trump administration also blocked job protections for LGBTQ people, insisting that employers should be free to fire workers for their sexual orientation or gender identity. I believe whether you agree with someone's life's choices; they are not for someone else to take away.
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Kelley Benson
Southeast side
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