GLAAD STATEMENT AND RESOURCES ON 2025 PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION AND INCOMING ADMINISTRATION

(January 18, 2025 — New York, NY) — GLAAD is releasing a statement and resources for reporters and the LGBTQ community ahead of the 2025 presidential inauguration ceremony on Monday, January 20, and first 100 days of the incoming Trump administration.

GLAAD’s Trump Accountability Tracker is documenting the incoming president’s anti-LGBTQ policies and rhetoric, here.

GLAAD’s Biden Accountability Tracker documented more than 350 statements, appointments and policies to include and protect LGBTQ Americans, including appointing a record number of out LGBTQ federal judges. The Biden tracker is here.

Donald Trump’s inauguration will feature an invocation from Franklin Graham, who has spoken out against LGBTQ people and perpetuated lies about the community. Graham’s LGBTQ record is available here.

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to sign a number of executive orders targeting the equality of people of color and of LGBTQ Americans, including and especially transgender people, in his first days in office. 

Pres-elect Trump claimed during his campaign to “know nothing about” Project 2025’s plans to erase and dismantle resources for LGBTQ Americans, yet he nominated Project 2025’s Russell Vought as Director of the Office of Management and Budget, among other opponents of LGBTQ equality to other posts.

GLAAD’s President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis (she/her) released the following statement:

“LGBTQ people are in all states, communities, families and workplaces, and leaders should include and protect us with the fundamental freedoms all Americans enjoy. On the day of the inauguration – which coincides with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a celebration of one of our country’s most relentless civil rights heroes – we seek comfort in the long history of the fight for liberty and justice in America. We urge every reporter and all Americans to elevate everyone’s right to be themselves and be safe. Together we must hold the incoming administration to the promise of equal justice under law, and resist threats to our basic American right to live freely and with dignity.”

Additional resources:

LGBTQ records of Trump cabinet nominations here.

LGBTQ records of activist groups with deep ties and influence in the first and upcoming Trump administrations include Heritage, Alliance Defending Freedom, and lesser influencers (though well-known) so-called Moms for Liberty. Additional groups and profiles of 200+ people are available on the GLAAD Accountability Project.

GLAAD Media Reference Guide: updated terminology, context, and info on 20+ LGBTQ-inclusive topic areas

– 30+ statements from major medical associations in support of health care for transgender people, across the patient lifespan and multiple specialties

– Facts about Bans on Transgender People in Sports

– Terms to avoid (e.g. “gender ideology” and “transgenderism“)

– Americans and military personnel support open transgender military service: 66% of troops and 71% of the public

-The U.S. Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of bans against health care for transgender youth, care that is available to cisgender (non-transgender) youth without restriction, a violation of the 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause. Details from oral argument in the U.S. v. Skrmetti case, here. The Court is expected to issue a ruling by June 2025.

Last month, GLAAD published a new resource with important, commonsense tips for LGBTQ people concerned about their rights. The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) has published a resource addressing frequently asked questions about same-sex couples’ legal marriages and parentage. NCLR, Family Equality, GLAD Law, Movement Advancement Project and COLAGE also recently collaborated on a resource for LGBTQ families.