Today (March 13, 2018) president Trump announced the appointment Mike Pompeo for Secretary of State replacing Rex Tillerson. Although Mr. Pompeo has to go through a confirmation process, he is almost assured to be confirmed. This has the activist in the transgender community calling out for a call to action, blocking Pompeo’s appointment.
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Pompeo has a long history of anti-LGBT views and has been linked to The Family Research Council which has been labeled a hate group by The Southern Poverty Law Center. According to a statement by FRC, Tony Perkins said: “It is hard to identify another federal agency that is in more need of change than the State Department, which has historically and consistently been at cross purposes with American values and principles.”
The United States Department of State has already shown, under trump to be silent about tragedies to the LGBT community around the world. The silence has transgender activist concerned that Pompeo will overturn the June 2010 policy of allowing transgender people change their gender marker on their passport. A policy change in this order is frightening to the transgender community.
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the T.R.A.N.S network Strongly Opposes the Appointment of Mike Pompeo to Secretary of State
The Human Rights Campaign has given Pompeo a score of 30, 0, and 0 during his three terms run in U.S. House of Representatives. In the House, cosponsored the State Marriage Defense Act, which attempted to slow the spread of marriage equality, and the Marriage and Religious Freedom Act, a precursor to the current First Amendment Defense Act, which is essentially a “license to discriminate” legislation.
When the domestic law’s language was expanded to expressly include same-sex couples in the Violence Against Women Act, Pompeo vetoed it. Pompeo consulted with Family Research Council, an anti-LGBTQ hate group that supports Uganda’s efforts to punish and execute LGBTQ people. This type of extremism has the transgender community fearful. There should be no place for this in the United States Department of State.
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the T.R.A.N.S network Strongly Opposes the Appointment of Mike Pompeo to Secretary of State
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