Sam Jay: Taking Aim - Metro Weekly, August 6, 2020

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12 AUGUST 6, 2020 • METROWEEKLY.COM
Among the specific promises made in the platform are that the party will enact protections for LGBTQ+ youth who find themselves homeless, reverse the Trump administration’s transgender military ban and its attempts to discharge service members living with HIV, and provide coverage for HIV/AIDS treatment and HIV-prevention medications, including pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis. With respect to health care, Democrats have vowed to reverse a Trump administration rule that allows medical providers to refuse to provide certain types of care or treatment to LGBTQ people or others based on the provider’s personal religious beliefs. The party has promised to reinstate a provision of the Affordable Care Act prohibiting discrimination based on sex — including gender identity — by insurance companies and medical providers, and ensure that transgender people receive any care, including hormone therapy or gender confirmation surgery, that their doctors have classified as medically necessary to treat gender dysphoria. In keeping with positions embraced by its presumptive nomtheFeed IDA MAE ASTUTE FOR ABS Democratic National Convention 2016 Equality Pledge Democrats’ 2020 platform pledges to advance LGBTQ equality, undo Trump’s attacks. By John Riley A DRAFT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY’S 2020 PLATform solidifies the party’s stalwart commitment to advancing equality, and offers one of the most pro- LGBTQ party platforms ever. Shared by the Democratic National Convention, which is set to take place virtually from August 17-20, the platform draft checks off several key policies that LGBTQ people have either been trying to push through Congress for years, or that reverse harmful policies enacted by the Trump administration. In the platform’s preamble, the party vows that it will “give hate no safe harbor,” whether in the form of “bigotry, racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, or white supremacy.” “Democrats will protect and promote the equal rights of all our citizens — women, LGBTQ+ people, religious minorities, people with disabilities, Native Americans, and all who have been discriminated against in too many ways and for too many generations,” the preamble reads. “We commit ourselves to the vision articulated by Frederick Douglass of ‘a Government founded upon justice, and recognizing the equal rights of all.'” AUGUST 6, 2020 • METROWEEKLY.COM 13
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