Will project 2025 take away gay rights

We will continue to challenge efforts to allow the use of religion to discriminate in government programs wherever possible, recognizing that the current Supreme Court has been hostile to our arguments. As argued above, a second Trump administration would go beyond policies that make discrimination legal and would also mandate discrimination against LGBTQ people by the federal government.

How Project 2025 Tries to Demonize LGBTQI+ People—and Why It’ll Fail

Learn more about this initiative and its perilous implications for our civil rights and civil liberties below — as well as how the ACLU will use all of the tools at its disposal — from advocacy to litigation to community organizing — to defend our democracy. Fight back against bigotry, injustice and inequality.

We are clear-eyed about the challenging road we face in turning to the federal courts to stop these planned attacks on the LGBTQ community. Four years of the first Trump presidency had an enormous impact on the courts, including the Supreme Court. Getting courts to understand the experience of transgender people and the impact of discriminatory policies on their lives was difficult even before Trump reshaped the judiciary.