Claim: “If Donald Trump wins in November, he will again implement policies that target the LGBTQ+ community.”
Verdict: Mostly false. Trump has promoted LGBTQ+ rights and drawn boundaries on transgender issues.
Vice President Kamala Harris has stoked fears by telling supporters that President Trump will “target” the LGBTQ+ community.
Log Cabin Republicans, an established gay rights group within the conservative movement, responded:
Kamala Harris is stoking fear to win the LGBT vote.
❌ Trump has not taken away protections for LGBT workers or patients.
Trump did not ban transgender people from the military.
✅ Trump certainly boosted the economy and secured the border, but Kamala doesn’t want to talk about it. https://t.co/XmNWxw95Si
— Log Cabin Republican (@LogCabinGOP) August 12, 2024
Trump is indeed a supporter of gay rights, appointing Acting Director of National Intelligence Rick Grenell as the first openly gay Cabinet-level official. launch The first U.S. global effort to decriminalize homosexuality.
The only way Trump would act against the most radical elements of the LGBTQ+ community is if he Openly Transgender soldiers cannot serve. People who identify as transgender — that is, people who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria — can still serve in the military as long as they serve in their biological sex and have not undergone a gender transition. (The military bars people with all other medical conditions.)
The governor allowed states to set their own policies regarding transgender bathrooms, reversing previous policies that imposed a uniform California-style policy on the entire country, but gave liberal states the freedom to implement them as they pleased.
Trump may not necessarily be an advocate for “TQ+” people, but he could be said to have been an advocate for “LGB”. Harris lumps all of this together to claim that Trump is against gay rights in general, which is demonstrably false. Transgender issues, and the broader issue of “queer” identity, are controversial. While gays, lesbians, and bisexuals are widely accepted, many pro-transgender policies are unpopular and the phenomenon is poorly understood.
Harris could plausibly argue that Trump doesn’t advance a transgender agenda, or that she would advance it better than Trump does, a fact few Trump supporters would dispute.
It is precisely because the transgender agenda is so unpopular that Harris has to use the “LGBTQ+” label across the board, thereby distorting Trump’s actual record on issues that concern the majority of people within the movement.
Joel B. Pollack is executive editor of Breitbart News. Breitbart News Sunday The show airs Sunday nights from 7 to 10 p.m. (4 to 7 p.m. ET) on SiriusXM Patriot. He is the author of “Agenda: What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days,” which is available for preorder on Amazon. He also wrote,Trumpian virtue: The lessons and legacy of Donald Trump’s presidency” is available on Audible. He is the 2018 recipient of the Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter. Joel Pollack.
