Donald Trump’s “Agenda 47” is just as bad for LGBTQ+ people as Project 2025

As public awareness of Project 2025 has increased in recent weeks, Donald Trump has tried to distance himself from the troubling set of policy plans for a potential second term crafted by the far-right, anti-LGBTQ+ Heritage Foundation. In a July 6 post on his social media platform, Truth Social, the former president claimed to “know nothing about” Project 2025, writing that he disagrees with “some of” the plan’s proposals while he considers others “absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.”

Of course, by now we’re all well aware of Trump’s propensity for telling lies and spreading misinformation, so it’s hard to imagine anyone seriously believing his claims about Project 2025, which, among its many proposed regulations and executive orders aimed at radically reshaping the federal government in its far-right, Christian nationalist authors’ image, also aims to dismantle federal protections for LGBTQ+ people.

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Biden recently condemned the plan, which has deep connections to several former Trump officials

But even if one were to take Trump at his word, his own proposed agenda for a second term is just as troubling for LGBTQ+ Americans.

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The Trump campaign has posted many of its own anti-LGBTQ+ plans and proposals on its website, in a section called “Agenda 47,” featuring videos of the former president outlining his plans and pledges.

On one page, Trump promises to pass a federal law banning what he characterizes as “child sexual mutilation” — despite the fact that gender-affirming surgeries are almost never performed on minors — and to “ask Congress to permanently stop federal taxpayer dollars from being used to promote or pay for these procedures.”

He also pledges to “ask Congress to pass a bill establishing that the only genders recognized by the United States government are male and female — and they are assigned at birth,” and says he will direct the Department of Education “to inform states and school districts that if any teacher or school official suggests to a child that they could be trapped in the wrong body, they will be faced with severe consequences, including, potential Civil Rights violations for sex discrimination, and the elimination of federal funding.”

On another page, Trump promises to end federal DEI programs, which he mischaracterizes as imposing “racist and woke sexual ideology across the federal government.”

Trump’s “Plan to Save American Education and Give Power Back to Parents” promises to “cut federal funding for any school or program pushing Critical Race Theory, gender ideology, or other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children,” adopt a “Parental Bill of Rights that includes complete curriculum transparency,” and to “keep men out of women’s sports.”  

Of course, this is all just the tip of the iceberg. As many have already noted, Trump would be going into a second term far more prepared to enact his far-right, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-democratic agenda than he was in 2016. Whether that agenda encompasses Project 2025 or Agenda 47 or both, the results would be disastrous.

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