The White House’s LGBT rights page has disappeared
And so the transition of power begins. First up is the WhiteHouse.gov site where several pages are now changing or altogether disappearing — including a page on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights.
It’s just been over an hour since Trump took office and whitehouse.gov/lgbt has now been replaced by a Trump “transitionsplash” page.
Update: There’s no longer a transition page. The White House LGBT link is gone altogether.
The Obama administration introduced the White House LGBT page to highlight major legislative achievements, historic court victories and important policy changes for gay and transgender people. The page also shined a spotlight on certain campaigns for gay rights such as the “It Gets Better” campaign to help those in the LGBT community struggling with thoughts of suicide.
That campaign, as of this writing, still redirects to an archived “Strengthening Civil Rights”page. But, of course, all of that is subject to change. However, any mention of LGBT is now gone.
Is this just part of the transition and will we see a new page with Trump’s stamp of approval? Who knows. Trump has been praised by the Republican group the Log Cabin Republicans as the “most pro-LGBT nominee in the history of the Republican party.” Though those same Log Cabin Republicans also refused to endorse him as a candidate.
The LGBT community has expressed concern over a Trump presidency, especially given Vice President Pence, in his role as Indiana governor, opposed laws protecting the LGBT community.
In related news, it appears all mentions of climate change have also been erased throughout the site.
You can read more about the Obama administration’s work on gay and transgender rights in this archived press release here. We’ve reached out to Trump’s transition team for information but have not heard back. In the meantime, we will be sure to keep you in the loop if we do happen to see a new page pop up
Regarding the women's march, and their demand for 'human rights'.
ReplyDeleteThe joke is 'human rights' are a figment of our imaginations, there is no such thing as human rights. Humans have the same rights as cockroaches which in the grand scheme of things is zero.
And with the environment fast approaching 410 ppm CO2, humans are very soon going to be extinct, humans have done in 100 years what last time took over 10,000 years – we have taken the atmosphere from about 280 ppm CO2 to 405+, last time this happened something like 96% of life went extinct, AND all the CO2 we have released via fossil fuels was happily sequestered below ground, … last time, this time round humans have filled the atmosphere with several periods worth of previous global warming gasses that had been removed from the environment, so this time around it is going to be a bloody sight worse than maybe any previous period of warming.
And it will not matter who is running this show, quite simply there is nothing we can do to reverse what is in play, the climate is moving at its own speed, humans can’t slow it down OR speed it up, about the only thing we can do is nuke ourselves, which might be better than starving to death?
Human rights = bullshit