But this time, critics immediately seized on the president’s comments, saying the administration had undermined civil rights at home. Since Trump’s election, the administration has delivered a series of policy decisions that LGBT advocates consider dangerous to their civil rights. In 2017, Trump announced on Twitter that transgender people would be banned from serving in the military. “You want to define transgender people out of existence,” a Twitter account for the Democratic National Committee wrote to Trump. “He’s the first president to start as president for approving of gay marriage,” Conway said of her boss.

Source: bd News24 June 02, 2019 06:56 UTC