Beto O’Rourke Reveals Major Plan For LGBTQ Rights
Beto O’Rourke released a plan to protect LGBTQ rights and secure comprehensive legal protection.
As stated in a press release, the proposal would leverage executive power and call for congressional action that ensures that LGBTQ people have full equality and opportunity.
The presidential hopeful’s plan not only includes actions to immediately reverse the Trump Administration’s discriminatory policies, but also calls for action to ensure equal treatment for LGBTQ people. Additionally, the plan prioritizes America’s role in protecting queer people around the world.
Read the full plan HERE! In a nutshell, it comes down to three points:
* Protect the LGBTQ community by using executive authority to reverse the Trump Administration’s discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community, protect transgender individuals — in particular transgender women of color — from violence, include LGBTQ immigrants fleeing persecution as a “vulnerable population” for purposes of immigration enforcement, protect LGBTQ youth from conversion therapy, and appoint judges and executive-branch officials, including openly LGBTQ appointees, who believe in the full civil rights of every single person.
* Ensure full equality by working with Congress to enact legislation such as the Equality Act to make sure LGBTQ Americans have full equality and opportunity in all 50 states, ensure that LGBTQ people have equal access to health insurance and health care, including critical treatments like PrEP, and reform our criminal justice system.
* Strengthen global safeguards for the LGBTQ+ community by working with allies to improve the process for LGBTQ refugees and asylum seekers, secure a global treaty explicitly protecting LGBTQ individuals from persecution, invest in the Global Equality Fund, and establish a Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTQ+ people.
“LGBTQ Americans have made incredible progress over the past decade, thanks in large part to the tireless efforts of activists and advocates—but too many LGBTQ+ people still lack protection under many states’ laws and the current Administration is encouraging rather than stamping out discrimination,” Beto said. “We must ensure all Americans are treated equally no matter who they are or who they love.”