Question about project 2025

How will it affect LGBQT+ people?

Answer

The platform calls for an increased use of religious exemptions. This could give a way for organizations, including the Department of Health and Human Services and those in foster care to potentially discriminate against them, specifically LGBTQ+ youth, and prevent them from seeking needed services such as health care and shelter, which they often struggle with as many experience being disowned from their families and facing a lot of hostility. The platform could make it easier for those to be subjected to physical or emotional harm while receiving government aid, and increase the difficulty in obtaining such support. This could put these children and adolescents at risk. There are some examples given within the text which shows attempts to create a roadmap for a plan that specifically works to exclude these young people from accessing support and protections by making it possible to allow the use of religious exemptions when discriminating against them.