Trump’s refusal to support the Equality Act, which would ensure that existing civil rights protections cover sexual orientation and gender identity in the way that they already do for race, disability, veteran status, and more. The Equality Act is supported by a broad coalition of dozens of groups, including civil rights organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch, businesses like Apple, Google, and Netflix, religious groups like The United Church of Christ, and many more. Nevertheless, a White House official said that protecting queer Americans would AND I QUOTE: “undermine parental and conscience rights.” Calling it a AND I QUOTE “a poison pill,” spokesperson Judd Deere said that Trump opposed discrimination, but would not sign the bill. If Trump had specific objections to the bill, they were not made apparent. Just in the last year, those appointees have included Steven Menashi, who opposed marriage equality; Lawrence Van Dyke, who said that allowing same-sex couples to marry would AND I QUOTE "harm children" and Chad Readler, who was involved in numerous homophobic initiatives at the Department of Justice under Mike Pence. Many of those judges are associated with the homophobic Federalist Society, which compares same-sex marriage to polygamy.The Trump administration has poured considerable resources into blocking basic job protections for queer people, saying that employers should be free to fire workers for even suspecting that they might be LGBTQ+. Under Trump, the administration filed briefs in the landmark Bostock case before the Supreme Court, arguing that existing civil rights laws should AND I QUOTE "not be interpreted to cover sexual orientation and gender identity." The Trump administration also pushed a policy change that would allow federal contractors to discriminate against LGBTQ+ employees. Under Donald Trump, the Department of Health and Human Services wiped out medical protections for queer people established under Obama’s Affordable Care Act. The rule change ends a policy that protected queer people from discrimination in health care settings, gutting a portion of the ACA known as “Section 1557.” Implemented in the summer of 2020, the change came amidst a deadly pandemic that has been shown to have disproportionate health risks for LGBTQ+ people. The administration has also been working to dismantle the Affordable Care Act overall, which would be devastating to queer people.