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Last March, during the Democratic presidential primary race, Joe Biden released an ambitious plan to advance LGBTQ+ rights, but at the time it was unclear what he would realistically be able to accomplish if elected with a Republican-controlled Senate. But now that Democrats will narrowly control Congress and the White House for the first time since 2011<\/a>, many of Biden\u2019s LGBTQ proposals appear much more achievable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May 2019, the Democrat-controlled House passed the Equality Act<\/a>, a sweeping bill that would grant LGBTQ people federal protections<\/a> from discrimination in employment, housing, credit, education, public space, public funding and jury service. The legislation, however, was never given a vote in the Republican-led Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith Mitch McConnell in charge of the Senate, there was no chance we would ever get a vote on any of our stuff,\u201d Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Trans Equality, said of pro-LGBTQ legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With McConnell, R-Ky., in a minority leader role, the bill faces fewer barriers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe opportunity that we have to pass the Equality Act is better now than it’s ever been before,\u201d said Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the country\u2019s largest LGBTQ advocacy group. \u201cThis should be a part of our civil rights laws.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Joe Biden\u2019s plan to \u201cadvance LGBTQ+ equality in America and around the world,\u201d which is on his campaign website, the president said he \u201cbelieves every transgender or non-binary person should have the option of changing their gender marker to \u2018M,\u2019 \u2018F,\u2019 or \u2018X\u2019 <\/a>on government identifications, passports, and other documentation.\u201d As a result, he vowed to support state and federal efforts that permit trans people to have IDs that accurately reflect their gender identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advocates expect Biden to deliver on his promises of immediately undoing Trump policies that targeted LGBTQ people with executive orders or new guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe past four years has resulted in an onslaught of attacks against the LGBTQ community,\u201d David said, citing as examples the administration\u2019s push to allow\u00a0women\u2019s homeless shelters to turn away transgender women<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0health care providers to refuse service to\u00a0<\/a>LGBTQ people during a pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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