Committee on Health and Human Relations Chicago City Council Meeting June 17, 2020
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The City Council ofthe City of Chicago has supported and advanced over 200 pieces of legislation pertaining to the health, safety and inclusion of the LGBTQIA+ community within the City of Chicago and beyond; and,
WHEREAS, The President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, has worked at unprecedented levels to scale-down and completely roll back gains made by the community; and,
WHEREAS, According to the Human Right Campaign, the largest LGBTQIA+ civil rights organization in the nation, has identified at least thirty-three specific attacks on the community at the federal level; and,
WHEREAS, President Trump has shown his aggression towards this community in the workplace by supporting employment discrimination against LGBTQIA+, banned transgender military members, stopped enforcement of workplace discrimination, allowed religious exemptions for termination, removed military members based on HIV status, and created a hostile federal work environment towards self-identifying employees; and,
WHEREAS, President Trump has shown his aggression towards this community's healthcare by undermining and removing protections for LGBTQIA+ under Section 1557 Rule allowing discrimination based on sexual orientation, allowed doctors in religious hospitals to refuse patients based on sexual orientation, and cut $1.3 Billion from PEPFAR AIDS global reduction programs; and,
WHEREAS, President Trump has shown his aggression towards this community's housing issues by allowing emergency shelters to discriminate based on sexual orientation, and permitting the Federal Bureau of Prisons to ignore self-identified gender of inmates; and,
WHEREAS, President Trump has shown his aggression towards this community's families by refusing to fund any agency or grant recipient that maintains nondiscrimination policies based on sexual orientation, has refused issuing State Department visa...
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