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Donald Trump has enacted a raft of anti-LGBTQ+ executive orders, many of which specifically target the trans community, just a week in. Following the implementation of several new gender and minority-based executive orders, Donald Trump has also put into place a ban on both LGBTQ+ community flags and flags representing the Black Lives Matter movement at embassies and consulates around the world.

Seven states also limit or ban discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools, and four more restrict whether and how same-sex activity can be discussed in schools. Some states have also sought to exclude transgender girls from participating in sports, including some imposing blanket bans.

That could mean that comprehensive sexuality education may not be offered to LGBT, or any, kids through schools, so it will fall on community organizations and families to provide that education. And having sex and gender defined federally as just that assigned at birth will likely exacerbate problems LGBT people already have in finding affordable, accessible care.

Over the next couple months, before the new administration takes office, people who feel they might be at risk should get their paperwork or documentation in order. Many organizations are recommending that people shore up anything that bolsters legal recognition of their marriages, such as additional estate planning and powers of attorney.

These laws are passed to prevent children from learning about diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, with little regard for the harmful effects that isolation and invisibility can have on young people who do or will identify as LGBT or have LGBT family members.

Advocates and LGBT people have to be nimble and responsive to threats as they come up. Trump and other Republican Party candidates also targeted transgender people during the campaign, running anti-trans attack ads in various states and making absurd claims about schools performing gender surgeries on children.

Trump Admits He Would Remove Pride Flags If the 1st Amendment Didn't Stop Him Sitting in the Oval Office, he announced he “would have no problem” implementing such a ban. The next Trump administration could roll some of that back.

Some Republicans in Congress have already introduced legislation that would make providing gender-affirming care a crime in the US or that would prohibit transgender girls from playing sports nationwide. Presidential actions were widely expected Trump made anti-transgender attacks a central plank of his campaign reelection message as he called on Congress to pass a bill stating there are “only two genders” and pledged to ban hormonal and surgical intervention for transgender minors.

We talked about threats to gender-affirming care, but I think broader attacks on health care for LGBT people are likely to be a constant concern over the next four years. He signed an executive order doing so in January. More than half of US states also prohibit transgender children from obtaining often life-saving, gender-affirming medical care.

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Trump also said during the campaign that he would roll back federal policies prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. And as books about LGBT people and issues may be removed from school and public libraries, donating resources or otherwise helping to fund and support community organizations that help marginalized LGBT communities might be helpful in the coming years.

The move falls under a new policy. During his first term, his administration weakened some of these protections.

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That said, I think one of the lessons from the first Trump administration is that there will be things that nobody expected. What’s behind the shift?. The Biden administration went much farther, for example by promoting non-discrimination through State Department programming.

Lawmakers at the national level have proposed limiting federal funding for organizations that work on sexual and reproductive rights issues, including trans health and rights. He previously stacked his administration and the judiciary with people who are overtly hostile to LGBT rights.

How could this kind of discrimination and erasure play out on the national stage under the next Trump administration? That could be legal recognition of parentage or other family documentation. Banning trans people from the military was one of those.

This is also problematic for trans people generally, as it lays the groundwork for laws and policies that Congress could pass. Many of the changes proposed by lawmakers and Trump would exclude transgender students from Title IX protectionsa federal law banning sex discrimination in federally funded educational institutions.

Some of the worst trends involve denying trans children access to sportsbarring them from appropriate bathroom facilitiesand outing them to family members. Major medical associations consider this type of care best practice for many transgender children, as it can alleviate a lot of the mental health stressors of gender dysphoria they can experience as they grow and their bodies change.

The president’s previous support is at odds with his anti-trans hostility now.