Gillibrand outlines priorities regarding gay and transgender Americans
The only Democratic candidate for president who has campaigned at a drag club, is now the first candidate to present an agenda to protect the rights of gay and transgender Americans. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced Saturday — the first day of Gay Pride Month — her plan to help enforce LGBTQ rights.
Gillibrand’s plan sorts priorities into four categories: equal rights, families and children, health care, and safety.
To safeguard equal rights, Gillibrand would call on two federal agencies to fight LGBTQ discrimination. Upon being elected, she would overturn the Trump administration’s ban on transgender men and women serving in the military, and direct the Department of Defense to ban restrictive policies affecting HIV-positive members of the military.
Gillibrand would also use the Department of Justice to classify LGBT individuals as a “protected class” and direct specific attorneys in the department to focus on the abolition of LGBT discrimination.
Gillibrand specifically noted decreasing the murder rate of transgender people as a Justice Department objective.
