The White House announced new measures Thursday aimed at protecting queer and transgender people from increasingly harsh attacks launched by conservative media figures and Republican politicians.
The modest measures arrive as Pride celebrations continue across the country — but also as the culture wars over questions of gender and sexuality grow ever more intense ahead of next year’s presidential election.
, which would have banned discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity under federal law.“I’m not giving up on this,” Biden said on Thursday.create an interagency task force on LGBTQ safety that will “provide critical safety resources to ensure [community] organizations can remain safe spaces for the community.”
create a new position at the federal Department of Education “to address the growing threat that book bans pose for the civil rights of students.”Led by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Republican legislators and governors across the country have moved to prevent discussion of sexuality in the classroom, purge libraries of books on LGBTQ issues and heavily restrict access to therapies required to transition between genders.
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