Being LGBTQIA+ in America Right Now

By Mickey Few

America has been a tough place for the LGBTQIA+ community in recent years. Although the country is already slowed in the advancement of positive LGBTQIA+ legislation, America saw the progressive clock turning backwards as Trump came to power.

As plentiful as they were sinister, Trump's administration encouraged many regressive LGBTQIA+ changes during Trump’s time in power. Within their first year, Trump’s administration quickly attempted a ban on Transgender people in the military, removed LGBTQIA+ questions from an elderly survey that had been long fought for, proposed funding for life-saving H.I.V and AIDS research to be cut, and repealed guidelines on how to protect transgender children in schools.

These proposals lay foundations for what LGBTQIA+ Americans could expect from the Trump administration. Thus, propelling the LGBTQIA+ community into a state of fear and anxiety. Not only did the proposals of Trump’s administration create apprehension and a feeling of displacement for LGBTQIA+ Americans, but these proposals also encouraged an atmosphere of discrimination and prejudice against the LGBTQIA+ community.