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LGBTQ+ Rights Under Fire

The Trump Administration has been attacking LGBTQ+ rights ever since it took office, it’s time that came to end.
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Taila Lee
The rainbow flag representing LGBTQ+ pride originally had 8 colors, but the more modern version has 6.

The LGBTQ+ rights that we’ve battled for numerous years will be tested if the current administration remains in office. Countless individuals will be harmed on the off chance that we lose the right to marry. My companions, an additional 7 million individuals identify as LGBTQ+. According to the Williams School of Law, this administration is trying to pass a bill that specialists can decline clinical assistance towards transitioning individuals.

This would strip transgender individuals of their rights, placing hindrance on the method of LGBTQ+ individuals’ attendance to medical care, and assigning judges authorities. “I shiver to consider what could occur if my girl needs to go to an emergency clinic where a Christian specialist may have ethical issues with her,” said Karla, a mother of a transgender kid in Massachusetts. They’re likewise attempting to take away numerous things from LGBTQ+ people. We have to vote against the current administration to keep our friends’ and family’s rights.

The administration deleted a web site page on lesbian and discriminant ladies’ well-being with transgender individuals’ medical services and stripped all LGBTQ+ references in the Health and human for your virtual arrangement. In another proposed rule, the organization would change the administration’s translation of the Affordable Care Act or ACA non-segregation arrangement. The ACA is a non-segregation agreement that denies separation based on race, identity, shading, sex; public beginning, inability status, and age before the Trump administration came into control.

The National Government decipher this law in a manner that shields individuals from the separation and depends on sexual orientation character and more commercial center plans, other medical care programs and run trades proposed rule the law and rolling back insurance protections for transgender individuals, among others.

In conclusion, over 7 million people will be hurt if we let this administration continue on its path.

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Robert Freeman
Robert Freeman, Staff Writer
Robert Freeman is a freshman, who is interested in writing about sports and the media. In the future, he hopes to be a journalist. In his free time, he enjoys being on call with his friends and playing videogames.
Taila Lee
Taila Lee, Coeditor in Chief
Taila Lee is the second-year coeditor in chief and a third-year reporter for The Paw Print. Along with winning regional and national awards from Journalism Education Association (JEA), SNO, and the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Lee is a member of KQED's Youth Advisory Board for 2019-2020. She has been featured on KQED’s Bay Curious podcast and 2019 Youth Takeover, and she co-taught a student press law workshop at the National JEA Convention in Washington D.C. in November. Lee plans to major in media studies and minor in journalism at UC Berkeley to empower youth and inspire change with journalism.

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