BY: Ashley Blackwell
Published 3 months ago
Following the election results, more folx in the LGBTQIA+ community are asking one popular question: What is Project 2025? As you may know, on Tuesday, Nov. 5, Donald Trump became the 47th president of the United States of America.
If you haven’t heard, Project 2025 is a conservative blueprint spearheaded by The Heritage Foundation. The political initiative outlines economic and social policy proposals for the next Republican president.
Whispers surrounding the think tank’s controversial strategy heightened when Trump, who also served as No. 45, took the debate stand on Sept. 10 against his then-opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, and denied any association with the governmental map.
“This was a group of people that got together, [and] they came up with some ideas,” he said before Harris, per ABC News. “I guess some good, some bad, but it makes no difference. I have nothing to do [with it].”
Although it allegedly wasn’t endorsed by Trump (directly), allies (and even former officials) of the ex-U.S. leader were reportedly involved in organizing and publishing their 900-page “Mandate For Leadership” document. Additionally, several New Yorker’s worldviews reflect those in Project 2025. Their “wish list” is to promote the expansion of presidential control and aggressively restructure societal issues in favor of the White House’s right wing.
“The actions of liberal politicians in Washington have created a desperate need and unique opportunity for conservatives to start undoing the damage the Left has wrought and build a better country for all Americans in 2025,” the official website reads. “It is not enough for conservatives to win elections. Suppose we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left. In that case, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on day one of the next conservative administration.”
Noted as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, the contentious layout has wreaked havoc in the media. Its multi-part plans (including personnel, training, and a 180-day playbook) are riddled with federal suggestions that the public fears could negatively impact numerous Americans.
More specifically, most have deemed it a hate campaign toward sexual minorities. Now that Trump is officially back in the top seat, most fear that the anticipation for Project 2025 will become the “Land of the Not-So-Free’s” harsh, new reality and likely affect LGBTQIA+ people in multiple ways.
What Is Project 2025’s Stance on the LGBTQIA+ Community?
Within Project 2025’s million-dollar mission lies regulations to abolish the Department of Education, cut healthcare funding for low-income individuals, undo climate work, crack down on abortion/reproductive services for women, and more.
As if those areas alone don’t put the nation in a state of emergency enough, the potential laws regarding queer people are even more alarming. Project 2025 seeks to implement executive orders that are expected to put the safety and freedom of LGBTQIA+ citizens in jeopardy. If signed off on, various rainbow groups are afraid that their protective rights will be stripped away.
Here’s a short list of some key points of what Project 2025 wants to be enacted:
- A call for LGBTQIA+ minors not to be allowed to be addressed by pronouns (outside of their biological sex) at school unless their parents/guardians provide written permission.
- Not requiring educators to use pronouns if they contradict their moral/religious beliefs when referring to LGBTQIA+ students.
- Enforcing that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will “promulgate its 2016 decision that CMS could not issue a National Coverage Determination (NCD) regarding ‘gender reassignment surgery’ for Medicare beneficiaries.”
- Redefining the inclusive Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (which prohibits the discrimination of individuals based on sex, race, or identity in specific health or financial assistance programs), as it’s said to be “unscientific,” “ideological,” and an act of “coercion.”
On Nov. 7, political commentator Rachel Maddow briefly broke down how Project 2025 will harm those under the alphabet umbrellas. Take a look below.
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To read more of Project 2025’s policies, click here.
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