Only a year ago,candidate Trump presented himself as a social liberal seeking to tear the Republican Party left on gay, lesbian, and bisexual and transgender rights. “People are people to me,and everyone should be protected,” he told The Washington Post in a May 2016 interview. But circumstances acquire been changing since Trump entered the White House.
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The President announced on Wednesday that openly transgender members of the military would not be able to serve in any capacity.
Trump’s tweets on the issue delivered yet another a victory to the political right — including many House Republicans whose support he needs for his policy agenda — while surprising many Republican LGBT activists who had hoped he would terminate the culture war within the party.
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‘It’s not my thing’: A history of Trump’s shifting relationship with the LGBT community
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