Biden Order to Advance LGBT Initiatives

President
Joe Biden
will sign a sweeping executive order this afternoon that his
administration
says will champion the rights of
LGBT
people, thereby “accelerating the march towards full equality” through a series of actions affecting several federal agencies.

Biden will urge
Congress
to pass the Equality Act, but his executive order also aims to curtail the practice of so-called conversion therapy, prevent youth suicide, and allow the homeless to seek shelters consistent with their gender identity. Biden also took credit for creating an “X” gender option on U.S. passports and reversing the ban on transgender service members, among other actions.

“President Biden always stands up to bullies,” a senior administration official said on a background call with reporters Wednesday morning. “These are important new actions that will improve the health, safety, and wellbeing of countless families across the country. They will send a powerful signal from the president to LGBTQI+ kids across the country who are feeling scared.”

According to a fact sheet released to reporters Wednesday, more than 300 anti-LGBT laws have been introduced in state legislatures over the last 12 months, and “many of them specifically target tran …

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