WASHINGTON — Today, HRC’s Equality Votes PAC launched a new website – DismantleProject2025.com – that details how Project 2025, the blueprint for an unprecedented government takeover by a Trump-Vance administration, would threaten the rights and freedoms of the LGBTQ+ community, sending the country’s march toward full equality back decades. The website breaks down how the Trump-Vance Project 2025 agenda harms LGBTQ+ people in every area of our lives–from marriage, to building a family, to healthcare, to education and the workplace. The website will be supported by a digital campaign on HRC’s social media channels, in addition to videos where HRC’s Senior Director of Legal Policy Cathryn Oakley answers questions on Project 2025 posed by members of HRC’s online community. Watch the first video here.

In recent weeks, seeing how unpopular their agenda is with the American public, the Trump-Vance campaign has tried to distance itself from Project 2025. Their feeble protests bely the fact that the blueprint was written by more than 140 former Trump officials, including six former cabinet officials, that the project has been diligently collecting resumes of loyalists to serve in a Trump-Vance administration, and that its 900+ pages are an extension of the policy priorities Trump and Vance speak to on the campaign trail.

“As harmful as the first Trump presidency was for LGBTQ+ Americans, the Trump-Vance Project 2025 agenda makes it seem quaint,” said Cathryn Oakley, HRC’s Senior Director of Legal Policy. “It would give Trump unprecedented powers to dismantle our rights and undo many of the protections the LGBTQ+ community have spent decades fighting to gain. No part of our lives would be off limits–not the doctor’s office, our classrooms, our workplaces, or our families. And it would be even worse for those who sit at the intersection of multiply marginalized communities. That’s why no matter how much Donald Trump and JD Vance try to distance themselves from this toxic, anti-American agenda, HRC Equality Votes PAC will keep talking to voters from now until Election Day about Project 2025 and reminding them what’s at stake.”

While some of the proposals in Project 2025 may seem too wild to believe, HRC Equality Votes PAC’s new website cites each dangerous idea within its pages, allowing visitors to see for themselves how a Trump-Vance administration would roll back their rights. Among the many ways the Trump-Vance Project 2025 attacks LGBTQ+ Americans, it:

• Promotes discrimination against LGBTQ+ people in every arena, from health care to education to the workplace;
• Undermines and attacks marriage equality by privileging different-sex marriage in defiance of Obergefell v. Hodges; this includes allowing federally funded adoption and foster care providers to refuse to work with same-sex couples or LGBTQ+ people;
• Restores the Trump administration’s discriminatory ban on transgender people serving in the military;
• Permits religious employees to refuse to work with LGBTQ+ colleagues and to refuse to serve LGBTQ+ customers and clients;
• Proposes adopting a federal "Don't Say Trans" law or policy - meaning that districts and educators who recognize and respect a student’s gender identity by, for example, using their name and pronouns, would be denied federal education funding;
• Criminalizes–and potentially jails–teachers or school librarians who allow students access to books, movies, and other materials on LGBTQ+ people, classifying the librarians or teachers as sex offenders because of the false claim that any depiction of LGBTQ+ people is inherently pornography;
• Allows K-12 schools to refuse free breakfast and lunch services to LGBTQ+ students from low-income families; and
• Withdraws financial support for medically necessary health care for transgender Americans through multiple funding streams, impacting HIV/AIDS programs, public health research, health benefits for servicemembers and their families, and more.

Find out more at DismantleProject2025.com.