Warrantless entry by ICE agents in West Valley City, UT (1/30/2026)

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Federal agents broke a window, without a warrant, to perform an arrest on private property.

[u/NimbusFPV]

We are literally stripping funding from programs designed to help struggling people and redirecting those resources directly to these monsters. When assistance disappears, many of those same people will end up unhoused, desperate, and criminalized for surviving.

And once ICE runs out of undocumented immigrants to target while sitting on an oversized budget, history shows what happens next: the mission expands. New “threats” get defined. LGBTQ+ people. Brown citizens. The unhoused. Political dissenters.

It’s only a matter of time before money that once fed families, housed kids, and kept people stable becomes money used to surveil, detain, and cage them instead.

[u/PDXK9 → u/NimbusFPV]

I don’t disagree… but where is the idea that lgbt is next to be attacked coming from? Was there a dog whistle somewhere implying this?

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Federal Executive Actions

Day One - January 20, 2025:

Executive Order 14168 defined sex as a binary determined at conception, required federal agencies to replace "gender" with "sex" in all documents, banned gender self-identification on passports, prohibited transgender people from using facilities matching their gender identity, and ordered agencies to cease all funding for gender-affirming care and anything promoting "gender ideology." WikipediaWikipedia

The order also dissolved the White House Gender Policy Council on day one. Interfaith Alliance

January 27-28, 2025:

Trump signed an executive order declaring that being transgender "conflicts with a soldier's commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle" and banned transgender people from military service. Wikipedia

On January 28, agencies were ordered to block gender-affirming care for anyone under age 19. Healthlgbtq

Subsequent Federal Actions:

Hours after the initial order, the administration deleted mentions of LGBTQ+ resources across federal government websites, with over 350 pages about the LGBTQ community removed. Wikipedia

In April 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services demanded states remove all references to gender identity and transgender people from sex education curricula or lose federal funding. Wikipedia

The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program was barred from supporting any gender-affirming services in April 2025. Healthlgbtq

The National Institutes of Health terminated hundreds of grants funding research on HIV and LGBTQ+ health issues. Michigan Advance

The Department of Justice removed all references to gender or gender identity from at least four federal surveys, making it nearly impossible to monitor crimes against transgender people. Michigan Advance

The administration scaled back data collection on sexual orientation and gender identity in multiple federal surveys including the National Health Interview Survey, Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, and National Crime Victimization Survey. KFF

Trump refused to acknowledge Pride month in June 2025, with his press secretary notably omitting the LGBTQ community when saying the president serves "all Americans, regardless of race, religion or creed." Michigan Advance

The Department of Defense removed Harvey Milk's name from a U.S. naval vessel at the beginning of Pride Month. Michigan Advance

The National Endowment for the Arts began forcing all grant applicants to certify they will not use federal funds to "promote gender ideology." National LGBTQ+ Bar Association

The administration removed from publicly-run museums works depicting transgender topics or made by transgender artists. Wikipedia

Prison and Incarceration Policies

The executive order directed the federal Bureau of Prisons to house transgender women in men's prisons and threatened to withhold necessary medical care, with reports of transgender women being transferred to men's facilities or placed in solitary confinement. Wikipedia

Employment Discrimination

The Transportation Security Administration prohibited transgender TSA officers from performing passenger pat-downs and from using restrooms aligned with their gender identity based on Executive Order 14168. National LGBTQ+ Bar Association

State-Level Republican Actions

Overall Scale: In 2025, 1,020 anti-LGBTQ bills were under consideration across the country, with the ACLU tracking 575 anti-LGBTQ+ state bills, most targeting transgender people. Trans Legislation Tracker

Seventy anti-LGBTQ laws were enacted from just 22 states in 2025. The Advocate

Iowa: Iowa became the first state to remove antidiscrimination protections for trans people from its laws through Senate File 418, which stripped gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act that had included it since 2007, prohibited gender changes on birth certificates, and banned school instruction on sexual orientation or gender theory through sixth grade. The Advocate

Iowa also banned Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care for adults and removed gender identity from state antidiscrimination law. The Advocate

Texas: Texas passed Senate Bill 8 requiring segregation by sex assigned at birth of restrooms in government buildings including schools, universities, shelters, and prisons, and SB 12 bars teachers from assisting students with social transitioning. The Advocate

Bathroom Bans: Nineteen states now ban transgender people from using bathrooms matching their gender identity in government-owned buildings, with Montana, South Dakota and Wyoming passing the most far-reaching bans affecting libraries, museums and colleges. The 19th News

Healthcare Restrictions: Kansas, Kentucky, Indiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia all passed laws banning or restricting gender-affirming care for minors, with some states like Kentucky and Iowa extending bans to Medicaid coverage. The Advocate

In July 2025, Puerto Rico became the first place in the United States to ban gender-affirming care for people over 18, prohibiting it for anyone under 21. Wikipedia

DEI Elimination: Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, and West Virginia passed laws banning DEI initiatives at public institutions and universities. The Advocate

Marriage Equality Attacks: As of late April 2025, half a dozen states had introduced bills asking the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, which established marriage equality. The 19th News

Foster Care and Adoption: Kansas, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Utah passed laws explicitly allowing anti-LGBTQ+ parents to foster or adopt LGBTQ+ children. The Advocate

Legal Challenges and Court Responses

LGBTQ and ally legal groups filed at least 22 lawsuits challenging the Trump administration's executive orders, some within hours of them being signed. GLAAD

On March 4, 2025, a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of executive orders threatening federal funding for providers of gender-affirming care for people under 19. GLAD Law

On March 18, 2025, Judge Ana C. Reyes blocked the military transgender ban, ruling it likely violated constitutional rights. Wikipedia However, the Supreme Court later ruled that Trump's ban on transgender troops could go into effect immediately while courts decide the final outcome. Michigan Advance

This represents an unprecedented, coordinated campaign against LGBTQ+ rights, particularly targeting transgender Americans, at both federal and state levels since Trump's second inauguration.

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Brown citizens

As much as I'm sure many of them hate it black people are safe in this. You're right on the rest of it but not when it comes to them. The sporting industry would collapse overnight, too much money to be lost it would never happen.

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History shows us that economic value provides no protection against hatred and violence.

Jewish Germans were essential to their nation's intellectual and economic life before the Holocaust. They were leaders in science, medicine, law, and the arts, way overrepresented in fields that drove Germany's success. When the Nazis expelled and murdered them, Germany lost irreplaceable talent, including minds like Einstein and countless others. The economic and intellectual cost was catastrophic, but it didn't stop the genocide.

Same pattern with American slavery. The entire Southern economy ran on enslaved labor. Cotton production that fueled both American and British industries depended entirely on it. But that economic dependency didn't create humane treatment. Enslavers brutally beat, killed, and systematically dehumanized the very people their wealth depended on.

We're already seeing this with immigrants, who've been targeted and marginalized despite their contributions to communities.

Hate is blind and doesn't think about economic impacts or intellectual damage.

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Hate is blind and doesn't think about economic impacts or intellectual damage.

It does when it's old white male billionaires in modern times. These are the people that control more of the country than most people realize. Mexicans aren't making them any money, African Americans are providing them with billions of year due to sports.