For Immediate Release: August 2, 2024
Contact: Ciora Thomas, ciora.thomas@sisterspgh.org, 412-297-0548
A Letter to the Community on Project 2025
We at SisTers PGH know that part of our role is to educate our community about policies that affect our lives. Over the past few weeks, you likely have heard something about “Project 2025.” We believe it is vital to inform folks on how this heinous document could impact Trans people if a Trump administration gets another chance in the White House.
Project 2025 is a 922-page framework crafted by the notorious Heritage Foundation, an extreme right-wing Christian thinktank. The document’s purpose is to serve as a blueprint for the next conservative president of the United States.
Many goals outlined in Project 2025 aim to eradicate TLGBQIA+ people from existence. For example, it equates pornography with gender diversity and favors heterosexual families by granting government funding to agencies “who affirm that marriage is between not just any two adults, but one man and one unrelated woman.”
Project 2025 also seeks to do away with the executive office’s Gender Policy Council, which “was established by President Biden to advance gender equity and equality in both domestic and foreign policy development and implementation.
Trump has attempted to distance himself from Project 2025, but his own Agenda 47 lays out policies, including passing legislation establishing that male and female are the only genders recognized by the U.S. and are assigned at birth.
Regardless of how you feel about the current state of politics, this is something every Trans person in the country needs to keep in mind as we head to the polls this November.
Policy ideas ripple outward, spreading to school boards and churches and state legislatures. We must fight back against this violent rhetoric and fight for legislators who refuse to cower to bigotry and hatred.
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SisTers PGH is a Black- and Trans-led 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that serves Trans and nonbinary people within Southwestern Pennsylvania. Learn more at www.sisterspgh.org.