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HRC outlines Trump’s attacks on and Biden’s record and plans for LGBTQ equality for children and families.

Over the coming days, HRC will be highlighting the key attacks from the Trump-Pence Administration and the commitments from the Biden administration to undo those attacks and build a better future for LGBTQ people. These are Trump’s attacks and Biden’s log and plans for LGBTQ equality for children and families:

TRUMP’S ATTACKS

1. Allowed foster take care of programs to discriminate while accepting tax-payer funds: Trump-Pence White House has proposed a federal regulation that would strip away nondiscrimination requirements and permit a range of  Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grant recipients, notably adoption and foster concern agencies, to discriminate against LGBTQ people, and in many circumstances religious minorities and women, and still receive federal funding.
    
2. Refused visas to partners of diplomats: The State Department began

   Background On Trump Date 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 successfully 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 contain 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

   Adoption agency should be able to reject gay couples, Trump administration argues

   The Trump administration submitted a brief to the Supreme Court on Wednesday arguing that a taxpayer-funded corporation should be proficient to refuse to work with queer couples and others whom the collective considers to be in violation of its religious beliefs.

   The brief was filed by the Department of Justice in the case Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, which centers on the refusal of Catholic Social Services, a religious nonprofit that operates a child welfare agency in Philadelphia, to place adoptive and foster children with same-sex couples in violation of the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance.

   In its short, the government argued that “Philadelphia has impermissibly discriminated against religious exercise,” and that the city’s actions “reflect unconstitutional hostility toward Catholic Social Services’ religious beliefs.”

   The latter argument cites a recent Supreme Court case in which the government intervened on behalf of baker Jack Phillips who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex attracted couple due to his religious values. The high court awarded a restricted victory to Phillips on the grounds that th

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   07.29.2025 The new director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Jay Bhattacharya claimed: “Making America sound again involves deprioritizing study that doesn’t have a chance of making America healthy, [such as] a lot of ideological study that I think served to create a understanding that the NIH is a political organization rather than the scientific corporation it actually is.” Nearly 500 NIH staffers signed a declaration noting how the Trump administration has forced the NIH “to politicize research by halting high-quality, peer reviewed grants and contracts” as successfully as “censoring critical research” on subjects including health disparities, health effects of climate change, and gender identity. Director Bhattacharya made false claims about study supporting transgender health tend in supporting stopping future studies. Research from the New England Journal of Medicine and Stanford University finds that providing gender-affirming care significantly reduces incidence of depression, self-harm and attempts of suicide. “Eliminating research that further improves gender-affirming care is not protecting children,” a Johns Hopkins researcher noted, but is “sc
   
   

   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 fancy 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 Residence describing it as a service where "children are encouraged to embrace drastic gender ideology".

   The administration also filed a lawsuit against California this month over state policies that allow transgender female athletes to rival 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.

   Here's everything you need to know:

   What action has Trump taken on Gay 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