‘A direct assault on LGBTQ+ Americans’: Trump’s ‘cruel’ anti-trans executive order condemned

Queer groups and charities have condemned Donald Trump’s anti-trans executive order, branding it a “direct assault on LGBTQ+ Americans”. 

Trump began his second term in the White House by signing a number of executive orders, including an anti-trans measure proclaiming that the US will recognise only “male” and “female” and that these are “unchangeable”, Reuters reported.

During his inaugural address on Monday (20 January), Trump said there were only two genders, adding that he will end “the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life”.

‘A direct assault on LGBTQ+ Americans’

Jeremy Comeau, the president of the National Federation of Stonewall Democrats, said: “These actions and words are a direct assault on LGBTQ+ Americans. Leadership should unite, not erase, us.

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