The mainstream media has been ignoring Trump's attacks on LGBTQ rights for weeks
The major news networks spent less than 11 minutes combined talking about Trump's plan to allow homeless shelters, adoption agencies, and healthcare providers to discriminate against LGBTQ people.
By Alex Bollinger Tuesday, June 4, 2019
A Media Matters investigation found that major news networks have been largely ignoring the Trump administration’s attacks on LGBTQ rights.
While several new anti-LGBTQ initiatives were announced in the past few weeks, four of the major broadcast and cable news networks did not cover them at all, while the other two spent less than 11 minutes in total covering the initiatives over a 10-day period.
Media Matters cited three attacks on LGBTQ rights from this past month. First, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) proposed a rule that would allow homeless shelters that receive federal funding to turn away homeless people on religious grounds and allow those shelters to house transgender people with their sex assigned at birth.
Second, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on May 24 a proposal to overturn an Obama administration rule that banned health care professionals from discriminating against transgender people. Under the proposal, health care providers could cite their religious beliefs as a reason to turn away transgender patients.
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