Anti-LGBT Leaders Reportedly Tapped for Trump Transition Team

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Officials from the Human Rights Campaign are expressing concern over an anti-gay extremist who has been tapped to lead domestic issues transition to the Trump administration.

According, to AP, Ken Blackwell will be in charge of the Trump "action team" examining the departments of energy, environmental protection, labor, transportation, health and human services, housing and urban development, interior and agriculture.

Blackwell is a senior fellow with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)-designated anti-LGBT hate group Family Research Council.

Also of concern is the rumor that former Attorney General Ed Meese will have a key role in the Trump Administration. Meese is a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, an organization that asserts that laws protecting LGBTQ people are not "necessary" and "weaken the marriage culture and the freedom of citizens and their associations to affirm their religious or moral convictions..."

"Ken Blackwell is a man who has spent his entire career going after LGBTQ Americans. Blackwell's leadership role in President-Elect Trump's transition team should be a major wake up call for anybody who ever had any doubt that LGBTQ people are at risk," said Human Rights Campaign Senior Vice President for Policy and Political Affairs JoDee Winterhof. "Ed Mess and Kay Cole James, who are also reported to have key roles, have been vocal opponents of equality and other issues we care deeply about. The people President-Elect Trump picks to serve in his administration will have a huge impact on the policies he pursues. We should all be alarmed at who he's appointing to key posts on his transition team."



H/T HRC