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Cross post from LGBT:Stonewall after Skrmetti: Transgender people refuse to be erased
Roughly 70K LGBTQ kids in crisis sought specialized services from the national suicide hotline every month, their director tells me.
— Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) 2025-06-28T18:00:34.466Z
Trump wants to cut those servicea off on July 17.
Today, on the 56th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, the transgender community is fighting back against the Trump administration’s attempts to write them out of the national story.
Just before noon on Feb. 13, 2025, the Stonewall National Monument’s official government website still celebrated “LGBTQ+” history. Sometime before 7:15 p.m. Eastern Time, Trump administration censors chopped off the “T” and the “+” from that acronym. By 9:45 p.m. ET, only the letters “LGB” were left standing.
That symbolic act of erasure has been emblematic of Donald Trump’s attacks on transgender people in his second term. On Day 1, Trump issued an executive order prohibiting so-called “gender ideology,” a phrase that seemed to refer to the existence of transgender and gender nonconforming people.
Trump’s anti-transgender onslaught ramped up from there in every area of public life within his reach: the military, prisons, passports, classrooms, healthcare and even crisis centers. The day before the Supreme Court’s opinion upheld Tennessee’s ban on transgender care for minors, Trump announced that he would end specialized LGBTQ care on the national suicide hotline on July 17.
Just before noon on Feb. 13, 2025, the Stonewall National Monument’s official government website still celebrated “LGBTQ+” history. Sometime before 7:15 p.m. Eastern Time, Trump administration censors chopped off the “T” and the “+” from that acronym. By 9:45 p.m. ET, only the letters “LGB” were left standing.
That symbolic act of erasure has been emblematic of Donald Trump’s attacks on transgender people in his second term. On Day 1, Trump issued an executive order prohibiting so-called “gender ideology,” a phrase that seemed to refer to the existence of transgender and gender nonconforming people.
Trump’s anti-transgender onslaught ramped up from there in every area of public life within his reach: the military, prisons, passports, classrooms, healthcare and even crisis centers. The day before the Supreme Court’s opinion upheld Tennessee’s ban on transgender care for minors, Trump announced that he would end specialized LGBTQ care on the national suicide hotline on July 17.
https://www.allrisenews.com/p/stonewall-after-skrmetti-transgender
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We will not back down. We will resist. We will prevail!
If you think about all the different fronts everyone faces in battle against this administration, just imagine how much more difficult it is for those of us (LGBTQ+) who live on alert, every second of every day, from the threat of having our human rights taken from us. We battle so many fronts constantly that most never have to worry about.
Thank you for sharing this important information!
Reis
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