Does trump have a gay man in his administration team
2025
07.29.2025 The new director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Jay Bhattacharya claimed: “Making America well again involves deprioritizing study that doesn’t have a chance of making America healthy, [such as] a lot of ideological explore that I think served to create a understanding that the NIH is a political organization rather than the scientific group it actually is.” Nearly 500 NIH staffers signed a declaration noting how the Trump administration has forced the NIH “to politicize research by halting high-quality, peer reviewed grants and contracts” as good as “censoring critical research” on subjects including health disparities, health effects of climate change, and gender identity. Director Bhattacharya made false claims about explore supporting transgender health protect in supporting stopping future studies. Research from the New England Journal of Medicine and Stanford University finds that providing gender-affirming care significantly reduces incidence of depression, self-harm and attempts of suicide. “Eliminating research that further improves gender-affirming care is not protecting children,” a Johns Hopkins researcher noted, but is “sc
Trump Is Assembling the Most Modern, Pro-LGBT Republican Presidential Cabinet In History
In just under a week, Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States. He’ll have a unified Republican Residence and Senate behind him to serve him shake up Washington, enact the America First agenda, and restore American leadership and prosperity.
President Trump’s most strong asset, however, will be one he didn’t fully own last time: a power-house presidential cabinet committed to carrying out his policies and ready to hit the earth running.
President Trump’s strong-willed, experienced, and talented nominees reflect not just his bold agenda, but the political diversity of the coalition that elected him. Appreciate Trump himself, none of them are wallflowers; they are all coming to Washington energized and on a no-fail mission to set power back in the hands of the people.
It’s also the youngest, most modern & pro-LGBT Republican presidential cabinet in history, with LGBT Americans and allies elevated to the highest levels of leadership favor never before seen in a Republican Administration. Contrary to what you notice from liberal activists and the media, it’s yet
President-elect Donald Trump and his team are swiftly uncovering important Cabinet, White Home, and other key nominations for his second designation.
Trump’s LGBTQ record is documented on the GLAAD Accountability Tracker and includes a history of deploying policies across federal agencies to target LGBTQ people.
The LGBTQ records of his nominees includes:
Marco Rubio—Secretary of State
- Attacked the Biden administration’s new guidance around Title IX protections in a letter to the Secretary of Education that includes the baseless assertion: “Equally disturbing is the likelihood that your department will weaponize Title IX to force a radical gender ideology in K-12 classrooms.” The letter misgendered gender non-conforming students.
- Attacked a drag painter and used her likeness, without permission, in a baseless campaign ad. The drag queen responded here.
- Targeted drag at military bases, falsely claiming it exposed children to “sexually charged content,” causing the cancellation of Drag Queen Story Hour at a library on a U.S. Breeze Force base in Germany.
- Ran advertisements across Florida with anti-trans rhetoric in his U.S. Senate campaign in 2022.
- Called the Respect for Marriage Act
Trump replaces openly gay army secretary with anti-LGBTQ declare senator
Last week, President Trump selected Mark Green, an anti-LGBTQ state senator from Tennessee, for Secretary of the Army. Green will replace Eric Fanning, the first openly LGBTQ chief of any military service. Many fear his appointment could result in a dramatic shift away from the military’s LGBTQ-inclusion actions, which began during the last administration.
The confirmation of Eric Fanning was a milestone for the military – nominated just five years after Don’t Demand Don’t Tell was repealed. In his role, Fanning helped lift restrictions on transgender people serving, and lifted other barriers for religious minorities. Fanning had previously served as Deputy Under Secretary of the Navy, Under Secretary and Acting Secretary of the Air Force, and Head of Staff to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter.
Mark Lush is a vicious opponent of LGBTQ rights. This year alone, Green pushed for three discriminatory policies, including a “bathroom bill” in the style of North Carolina’s HB2. At an event last year, Green even claimed that identifying as transgender is a disease.
Unfortunately, his appointment isn’t surprising. Pre
Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Treasury, is set to make history as the nation's highest-ever ranking LGBTQ+ official, but his nomination isn't being cheered on by progressives concerned about Trump's record on Homosexual rights.
Why It Matters
If confirmed by the Senate, Bessent would become the highest-ranking LGBTQ+ official ever. Only four openly LGBTQ+ people possess ever served in a presidential cabinet—Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell and former Acting U.S. Trade Exemplary Demetrios Marantis.
His nomination comes as acceptance of LGBTQ+ rights backslid in 2024, according to a Gallup poll, which found 69 percent of Americans feel same-sex marriages should be valid, a slight decrease from in 2023 when that number was 71 percent.
What to Know
Bessent, who previously supported Democrats but has become a vocal supporter of the president-elect, including his calls for tariffs on imported goods, would be fifth in line for the presidency if confirmed by the Senate.
He is openly gay and married to lawyer John Freeman; they have two children together. He is a co