Executive Action to Protect LGBTQ+ People

Despite the progress we’ve made, members of the LGBTQ+ community are denied lives free of fear or discrimination. President Trump’s administration has made it their mission to roll back protections for the LGBTQ+ community, particularly transgender Americans, defying their constitutional guarantee of Equal Protection. Beto will take immediate executive action to end the assault on LGBTQ+ rights and enact policies that conform to our laws and values. As President, Beto will:

Reverse the Trump Administration’s discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community, by:

-Overturning Trump’s discriminatory transgender troop ban, including all resulting discharges.

-Overturning “Deploy or Get Out” policy and ban the practice of discharging HIV+ servicemembers.

-Reversing Trump’s efforts to block access to healthcare for LGBTQ+ people and enforce protections for LGBTQ+ individuals under the
Affordable Care Act.

-Invigorating the Presidential HIV/AIDS Advisory Council.

-Reinstating Department of Education guidance and enforcement efforts designed to protect LGBTQ+ students in public schools.

-Enforcing of the Equal Access Rule, including requiring HUD-funded entities to inform LGBTQ+ individuals of their rights.

-Reverse Trump’s efforts to allow federally funded adoption and foster care agencies to reject same-sex families.

-Reversing the Administration’s attempt to expand religious exemptions in order to enable discrimination or harm others. Freedom of
religion is a fundamental right, but it should not be used to discriminate.

-Ending the Administration’s exclusion of sexual orientation and gender identity as protected under sex discrimination under Title VII
and Title IX, in particular to redress the discrimination against LGBTQ+ women and people of color in employment and other
settings.

Protect transgender individuals, in particular transgender women of color, from violence by:

-Directing the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the crimes against transgender people, specifically transgender women of
color.

-Ensuring law enforcement agencies receive training related to implicit bias, use of force, and accurately reporting the gender of
victims.

-Reinstate the Bureau of Prisons’ “Transgender Offender Manual” to ensure safe housing for transgender people in BOP custody, in
particular to address the violence directed at transgender women of color.

-Modernize laws to allow transgender individuals to update their name and gender on identity documents.

-Include LGBTQ+ individuals fleeing persecution as a “vulnerable population” for purposes of immigration enforcement by clarifying
that fleeing persecution based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity means that LGBT+ individuals have access to the asylum
process and take action to prevent and end sexual violence impacting LGBTQ+ immigrants in detention.

And affirm that same-sex couples with one US citizen partner and one non-citizen partner are entitled to the same benefits of
marriage regarding paths to residency and citizenship.

-Protect LGBTQ+ youth from conversion therapy by tasking the FTC to tackle false advertising or other unfair business practices that
promote the discredited practice of conversion therapy.

-Prioritize the research necessary to modernize the outdated blood donation requirements including the current 1-year bar for gay
and bisexual donors.

-Create an Interagency Task Force on LGBTQ+ Nondiscrimination with the goal of ending discrimination in federal programs and
actions.

-Ensure LGBTQ+ Americans are included in federal data collection efforts, by:

-Adding sexual orientation and gender identity measures to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey and other large-scale
population surveys like the Current Population Survey.

-Including criminal victimization data related to LGBTQ+ youth in the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

-Directing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other federal agencies to collect data on and prioritize the
enforcement of laws, such as non-discrimination laws, involving LGBTQ+ individuals — in particular LGBTQ+ people of color and
people with HIV.

-Appoint judges and executive-branch officials, including openly LGBTQ+ appointees, who have a demonstrated record of supporting
the full civil rights of every single person.