As Donald Trump prepares for his second term in the White House, Sarah Austin, staff attorney with GLAD Law, spoke with Luis Hernandez about possible threats to LGBTQ rights, and what members of the local LGBTQ community can do to prepare.
Interview highlights:
On possible threats to LGBTQ rights:
Sarah Austin:
I think it’s very clear that the incoming administration is going to target LGBTQ+ people and our rights, especially when it comes to transgender health care, transgender military service, and non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ students.
We do anticipate that the incoming administration is going to try to restrict access to transgender health care and try to restrict insurance coverage of that health care. The way that that’s likely to happen is through conditions on federal funding to major health care providers and also to states.
This interview was conducted by The Public’s Radio. You can read the entire story here.
