Pro-family activists call on Trump to undo Obama transgender ‘guidance’
A leading pro-natural marriage advocate called
on President-elect Donald Trump to reverse outgoing President Obama’s
pro-homosexual and pro-transgender Executive Orders while the ACLU threatens to
sue Trump to stop him from implementing his campaign promises.
Ryan Anderson, a senior research fellow at the
Heritage Foundation, tweeted:
"Because so much of the bad that [Barack Obama] did came through executive
action, [Donald Trump] can get rid of it all.” And he added: “With one
stroke of a pen @realDonaldTrump can
get rid of the DOE [Department of Education]/DOJ [Department of Justice]
Transgender Agenda and allow local schools to find win-win solutions.”
Back in May, in an interview with The
Washington Post, Trump promised to revoke Obama’s
highly-controversial “transgender” student directive — which pushes schools to
allow gender-confused students to use the opposite-sex restrooms of their
perceived “gender identity,” under the threat of a federal civil rights
lawsuit.
As LifeSiteNews reported, the Obama transgender policy
could force schools to allow “transgender” girls (biological boys who want to
live as “girls”) to use the girls’ restrooms, stay in hotel rooms with real
girl students on field trips, or to be assigned as college roommates with
biological female students. A federal
district judge has
blocked the “transgender” policy through a preliminary injunction.
Pro-family advocate Linda Harvey of Mission America told
LifeSiteNews that it was a “no brainer” for Trump to reverse Obama’s “extreme
transgender agenda” — most of it enacted without congressional approval.
"Will Trump halt the ‘transgender’
embrace set to go forward in the American military without
congressional authorization?" she asked. "Will he invalidate the
illegitimate transgender bathroom mandate, misusing Title IX? It is my prayer
that he will do so, as well as pledge to never sign the
falsely-named ‘Equality Act’ if it should come to his desk."
The “Equality
Act” –
renamed as the “Criminalizing Christianity Act” by pro-family critics — would
federalize “civil rights” based on homosexuality and transgenderism — thus
accelerating the forced opening of bathrooms to people of the opposite sex in
the name of “civil rights.” It also would override the Restoration
of Freedom of Religion Act, which reinforces
Americans’ First Amendment liberties.
“I expect that Trump may be tempted to
accommodate some of the endless ‘LGBTQ’ demands,” Harvey said. “But my hope is
that he will be persuaded about the harm this agenda is doing to children,
marriage, families, and to religious freedom.”
Trump favors states
rights
Trump has wavered on LGBT issues but criticized Obama’s
“transgender” executive order and said the matter should be left to the states.
His record on LGBT issues is all over the map — he proposed in an interview
with a “gay” magazine in 2000 that homosexuality
be added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act. He also
campaigned this year on a promise to repeal the Supreme Court’s Obergefell
same-sex “marriage” ruling (after having said months earlier that the issue of
homosexual “marriage” is over politically).
After Bruce Jenner’s gender “transition” to
“Caitlyn Jenner” broke in the news, Trump invited Jenner to use any restroom in
Trump Tower that he wanted. Jenner obliged by using the female restroom.