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If Trump wins the election, he could launch a ‘catastrophic’ rollback of LGBTQ+ rights

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Donald Trump has promised aggressive attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, with a focus on trans youth, who have been a central target of the GOP ’s culture war.

The stakes of the presidential election are enormous for people like Levi Hormuth and the broader LGBTQ+ community.

If elected, Trump is expected to weaponize the US government to authorize, encourage and mandate widespread anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination.

A second term could be “much more dangerous” than his first term, LGBTQ+ advocates say.

Project 2025 equates trans-inclusive reading materials to “pornography” and suggests teachers and librarians should be imprisoned as sex offenders if they promote “transgender ideology” A Trump spokesperson declined to comment.

Levi Hormuths had to cross into Illinois again weeks after his first visit to do bloodwork, required to be done within the state.

Losing access to testosterone was n’t an option, Levi said, his eyes welling with tears: “After all of this holding myself together, that would probably be the thing that breaks me”.

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