The results of this year’s Presidential election spell potential disaster for the LGBT+ community. President-Elect Trump ran a reactionary campaign threatening the rights of LGBT+ people. This coincides with increased right-wing demagoguery claiming their anti-LGBT+ views are to “protect the children.”
On the campaign trail, Trump levied many threats to strip away the rights of trans people including instituting a Presidential order on “Day one” repealing Title IX protections that cover discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. He stated, “On day one, I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing Critical Race Theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content onto our children.”
The Peoples LGBT+ United Society (PLUS) stands in resolute solidarity with all LGBT+ people against government repression. The path forward is for working-class LGBT+ people to work to help build the labor-led anti-monopoly coalition. We need to join forces with other working-class and progressive organizations to end LGBT+ oppression, which is based in monopoly capital.
In unity,
Peoples LGBT+ United Society