If the Family Research Council gets its way, the first 100 days of Donald Trump‘s presidency will be a parade of assaults against the LGBTQ community.
At an event last week at FRC‘s Washington, D.C., offices, representatives from both the FRC and anti-abortion group March for Life groups laid out their priorities for the next administration, including eliminating LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections for federal contractors, repealing the Affordable Care Act, restricting aid to international organization that provide abortion services, and halting reimbursements to Planned Parenthood from Medicaid.
The Family Resource Council is an anti-LGBTQ organization that has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Right Wing Watch reports that FRC’s Mandi Ancalle emphasized the group’s hope that Trump would reverse President Barack Obama‘s executive orders advancing LGBTQ equality, specifically those extending LGBTQ protections to federal contractors and those protecting transgender students.
She claimed that the employment protections violate employers’ religious liberties and that the student protections attempt to redefine sex and gender.
Ancalle called out the Department of Education and Department of Justice’s guidance on transgender students in public schools, accusing the Obama administration of “attempting to force schools to jeopardize, again, the privacy and safety of these young girls.” She went on to argue that what transgender students really need is (“conversion”) therapy.
“And that’s especially true when a lot of these students just need counseling,” she said, “they need somebody to affirm their actual sex and that their gender identity should be congruent with their sex.”
Ancalle further asserted that president-elect Trump could formalize his own definitions of sex and gender.
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