oral AMC how does the lgbt community cope with Trump policies ?

« Since the dawn of time, the LGBT community has been a controversial topic that provokes hatred in some people but also strong support in others.

And we can particularly see it through the relationship between the American LGBT community and the American government. While the Obama administration had established significant protections, the Trump administration, particularly during his second term, has systematically dismantled these rights.

We can therefore ask ourselves how does the American LGBT community cope with Donald Trump‘s policies.

We will answer this question with the help of the corpus under study that is composed of 3 articles respectively entitled “Lawyers and advocacy groups advise members of the LGBTQ+ community to take precautions under Trump's executive order.”, “ I'm proud to be gay. Trump's hate-filled first 100 days won't take that from me.”, “Protesters rally as supreme court considers gender-affirming care: 'This is about human beings'.”, and written by Julianna Bragg on January 23, 2025, by Sara Pequeño on April 28, 2025 and by Joseph Gedeon on Dec 4, 2024, of a podcast transcript made by Selena Simmons-Duffin on March 2, 2020 and of two pictures each published by Kevin Dietsch on December 04, 2024 and by Eduardo Munoz on February 10, 2026.

We will see in a first part, the current situation under the Trump administration, including all the measures it has taken.

We will then see how the LGBT community responds and resists through various strategies. Since coming to power, Trump and his administration have slowly taken down, one by one, the rights of the LGBT community.

It started only 1 month after he took office for his first term in the White House, in January 2016, by resigning the transgender student’s guidance which is contrary to the civil right of gender equality that had been previously extended to transgender people by Obama.

Then, it continued with the creation of an executive order which recognised only the biological sex. As highlighted in Document 2, this executive order aimed to prohibit the promotion of "gender ideology" by making all federal agencies treat biological men and women as distinct sexes, erasing non-binary identities from public records.

Furthermore, the administration decided that transgender students in public schools could no longer use restrooms that align with their gender identity and that they had to use the one that matches their biological sex.

Which, according to Sasha Buchert, a senior attorney at Lambda Legal and director of the Non-Binary and Transgender Right Project, could really harm the student’s mental and body health. Moreover, the administration targeted gender-affirming healthcare, which is often a "matter of survival" for trans youth as Lisa Guffey, a demonstrator, says.

Indeed, an executive action mandated the Bureau of Prisons to revise policies so that federal funds could not be used to finance medical procedures intended to alter an inmate's appearance to make them resemble that of the opposite sex.

This has led many states to question the ethics of gender-affirming care, particularly for children and adolescents, and by December 2024, 26 states such as Tennessee had already enacted bans on this specific type of healthcare. More recently, in March 2025, Trump dismantled the DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) policies even if 53% of the American was against it and declared during a joint session of Congress, that his administration had "ended the tyranny" of DEI policies, proclaiming that the country would be "woke no.... »