The #TrevorProject sees 33% jump in #crisisline volume on #inaugurationday and even more the next.
"The #political #targeting of #LGBTQ+ #youth — and #transgender and #nonbinary #youthin particular — must stop," says #TrevorProject #CEO #JaymesBlack.
https://www.advocate.com/news/trevor-project-crisis-calls-trump
#DonaldTrump Comes Out In Favor Of #Prison #Rape.
Least surprising endorsement ever. One of the planks of Trump’s campaign was #bashing #trans #people. And he wasted no time delivering on his #vow to inflict #maximum #harm on #minorities.
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/01/trump-comes-out-in-favor-of-prison-rape/
#Lawyers and #advocacy #groups advise #members of the #LGBTQ+ #community to take #precautions under #Trump’s #executiveorder
For anyone experiencing #discrimination based on their #genderidentity, #advocacy groups such as #LambdaLegal or the #ACLU, can provide support.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/health/lgbtq-rights-trump-executive-order-wellness/
#Resources for people #worried about #Trump's #antiLGBTQ #executiveorders
#Advocates are #alarmed by the orders, but are #takingaction. Here's what to know.
https://mashable.com/article/trump-transgender-executive-order-resources
#Trump #repeals #rule allowing #transgender #troops to #serve in #military.
The #executiveorder clears the way for a new #TransMilitaryBan.
How to #Stop #Trump in One Stupid #Chart
Make line go from low to high.
Here’s an idea, tell people about the bad shit Trump is doing, right now. Pushing Trump to -18 approval is the #Democrats’ #job. Their entire job. In fact, I’m not sure that anything else they do over the next year even matters.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-stop-trump-in-one-stupid-chart
A #Pastor's #Powerful #Plea For '#Mercy' Drew #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump's Ire — And #Faith #Leaders Have Something To Say.
#Bishop #MariannEdgarBudde spoke directly to Trump while delivering an #impassioned #sermon sharing #concern for #immigrant and #LGBTQ #communities. Two #Christian #leaders weigh in.
#ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump slams #church #service after #bishop begs him to 'show #mercy to #scared #TransKids'.
His expression did not change as #BishopofWashington Mariann Edgar Budde asked the President to #protect #LGBTQ #kids.
https://www.the-express.com/news/politics/161184/donald-trump-immigrants-trans-service
The Most #Remarkable Part of the #Video of a #Bishop #Confronting the #Trump #Family.
Noting how he had told the #nation during his #swearingin that he had “felt the providential hand of a loving #God,” by virtue of his #surviving two #assassination #attempts, Budde invoked the #compassion and #mercy of God as she called on Trump “to have mercy upon the people in our country who are #scared now.”
https://slate.com/life/2025/01/donald-trump-melania-jd-usha-vance-prayer-video.html
#Trump calls #bishop who bravely asked him to #showmercy to #LGBTQ+ #children and #immigrants ‘#nasty’
#Bishop #MariannEdgarBudde fearlessly #callsout #Trump and #ShadyVance to their faces. This is #heroic.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/22/bishop-mariann-edgar-budde/
Trump’s #angry #response to a #viral #sermon should #worry all #Christians.
#Bishop #MariannEdgarBudde's #words reflect the #values held by a majority of #American #Christians — a fact that Trump’s #divisive #rhetoric seeks to #obscure.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-bishop-budde-sermon-truth-social-rcna188764
#Livid #DonaldTrump #demands #apology over #bishop's 'nasty' #NationalPrayerService #sermon.
He called Bishop #MariannEdgarBudde’s sermon “#nasty in #tone," said she wasn’t good at her #job, and #claimed that “she and her #church owe the #public an #apology.”
https://www.advocate.com/news/trump-demands-apology-bishop-sermon
[Video] #Bishop #MariannEdgarBudde #breakssilence after #challenging #DonaldTrump during #prayer #service.
She pleaded with #DonaldTrump to show #Christian #mercy to #immigrants and members of the #LGBT+ #community.
https://www.the-independent.com/tv/news/trump-bishop-mariann-budde-cnn-interview-b2684116.html
#WhiteSupremacist #President #DonaldTrump #Revokes #Workplace #Discrimination #Rules Enacted By #LBJ In #1965
#ExecutiveOrder11246, #forbade #federal #contractors from #discriminating on the basis of #race, #color, #religion, #nationalorigin, #sex, #sexualorientation or #genderidentity.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-revokes-workplace-discrimination-rules-203613947.html
Trump’s dismantling of #EEOC and #CivilRightsAct #enforcement will have #chillingeffects for #Black #workers.
"These are all things meant to put #Black people and other #peopleofcolor back into a #racial #castesystem where #discrimination against them was #legal," Dr. #AlvinTillery tells #theGrio.
Multiple #government #websites #purged of #LGBTQ+ #content following #Trump’s #inauguration
#GLAAD reported that mentions of words such as “#lesbian”, “#bisexual”, “#gay”, “#transgender” and “#sexualorientation” are no longer accessible on the official #WhiteHouse #website, while “#LGBTQ+” brings up zero results.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/22/donald-trump-white-house-resources-lgbtq-hiv/
The #WhiteHouse removes #Spanish #language #page from its #website and adds ‘#gohome’ #button
The new president has started off his presidency by taking aim at #immigration and the #LGBTQ+ #community after he signed a raft of #executiveorders, one of which proclaimed there are “only two #sexes”.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/22/the-white-house-website-removes-spanish-page/
@Susan_Larson_TN Just of the last two days:
"Trump puts all US government diversity staff on paid leave, effective 'immediately'"
"Trump administration halts NIH grant-making process, sending shockwaves into scientific research"
"Federal workers warned to report efforts to "disguise" DEI"
(all by cnn.com)
