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ICYMI: How JD Vance Betrayed His Transgender Companion for the Sake of His Political Ambition
by Cullen Peele •
Recently unearthed emails and text messages from JD Vance in his law school years portray a man very different from the MAGA bully today, a male who will turn against his own LGBTQ+ friends to score points with the MAGA fringe
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a piece published by the Unused York Times over the weekend, Sofia Nelson, a former Yale Law Educational facility classmate of JD Vance, shared details of how Donald Trump’s running mate was once a shut friend who empathized with marginalized Americans, including Diverse people, and Nelson’s have transgender identity. Nelson, who is now a universal defender living in Detroit, provided text messages and emails from Vance that not only quote the Ohio senator’s previous disdain for Trump, but even his participation in Lgbtq+ fest celebrations and his worry about police brutality and racial equity.
These revelations are more proof of who JD Vance really is: a bully and a coward, whose only allegiance is to power and ambition, and who will betray those closest to him in order to be accepted as a MAGA clone,” said Human Rights Campaign pr
What has VP pick JD Vance said about LGBTQ issues?
Donald Trump selected JD Vance as his vice-presidential running mate for 2024 on Monday, hoping to benefit from his popularity with conservatives. But the decision swiftly drew condemnation from prominent LGBTQ advocacy groups who argue the legislation he supports is detrimental to the lesbian, gay, bisexual person, transgender and queer community.
Both the Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest LGBTQ rights organization, and GLAAD, a national LGBTQ media advocacy group, highlighted controversial bills written or sponsored by the senator from Ohio, including a prohibition on “X” gender markers on U.S. passports, an option that the State Department rolled out in April 2022.
Vance also proposed a forbid on gender-affirming care for minors, identical to a bill brought up in the House by Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
“Under no circumstances should doctors be allowed to accomplish these gruesome, irreversible operations on underage children,” Vance said in a remark at the time.
Before assuming office, Vance opposed the federal protection for homosexual and interracial marriages, stating that the efforts were a “bizarre dis
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Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance applaud on Time 2 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 16, 2024. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
What’s the context?
LGBTQ+ rights groups contain criticised U.S. vice presidential candidate Vance, highlighting his legislative record and past comments
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LONDON - Donald Trump's ruling to name J.D. Vance as his running mate for November's U.S. election has been criticised by LGBTQ+ activism groups, who state the Ohio senator has a history of working against the progression of gay and gender nonconforming rights.
Vance, a best-selling author who was elected to the Senate in 2022, was announced as the Republican Party's nominee for vice president on Monday.
The decision was swiftly condemned by American rights groups, who highlighted anti-LGBTQ+ policies introduced and supported by Vance,
Hate on the Ticket: Trump Chooses Anti-LGBTQ+ MAGA Acolyte JD Vance for VP Slot
by Brandon Wolf •
America Faced With Two Starkly Different Visions for the Future
WASHINGTON — Today, Donald Trump selected JD Vance as his running mate, making clear that a second Trump Administration would build on its legacy of being the most anti-LGBTQ+ in American history.
“Donald Trump has been a bully for years – and his pick of MAGA clone JD Vance is a reminder that nothing has changed. This is anything but a unity ticket,” said Kelley Robinson, Human Rights Campaign President. “We are not simply choosing between two campaigns. We are choosing between two fundamentally other visions of America. One, with Trump and MAGA ‘yes man’ JD Vance at the helm, where our rights and freedoms are under siege. And the other, with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris head the way, where we are progressing toward freedom and equality for all. Everything is at stake and the contrast could not be clearer. We must defeat Trump, Vance, and their brand of chaos and division, and send Joe Biden and Kamala Harris back to the White House.”MAGA author and US Senator JD Vance has a history of spewin
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—Said Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election. “…Did Donald Trump lose the election? Not by the words that I would use.” In a related resurfaced expression, Vance said, “Yeah, I do,” when asked if he believed the 2020 election was stolen. The election was not stolen. Trump lost the election.
—Endorseda 2017 report by the Heritage Foundation that proposed a sweeping conservative agenda to restrict sexual and reproductive freedoms and remake American families. The series of essays opposed opposed fertility treatments and applauded abortion bans. He wrote the introduction and venerated the volume as “admirable.”
—Wrote the foreword to a forthcoming book by the head of Project 2025, the vast rightwing, authoritarian presidential transition plan which Vance’s running mate Donald Trump has tried to disavow. Project 2025 is spearheaded and organized by the far-right the Heritage Foundation, and with 100 coalition partner organizations, many of which are well-known for pushing anti-LGBTQ policy, legal efforts, and harmful rhetoric, accompanied by Christian nationalism. In advance publicity materials Vance says of Kevin Roberts, president of the H