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Kevin Naff is editor of the Washington Blade. We must look to the example of Mayor Scott and others who are refusing to capitulate to this madness. Bessent is the first out gay Treasury secretary and the first LGBTQ Senate-confirmed Cabinet member in a Republican administration, according to The Associated Press.

The Trump administration has also ensured that Medicaid can no longer provide subsidized and insurance-covered care to trans adults. Donald Trump's gay nominee for secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, lives in Charleston, South Carolina with his husband and family. On June 18, the Supreme Court upheld a ban on gender affirming care for trans youth in nearly half of U.

This ensures that trans youth do not have access to hormone blockers that prevent them from becoming their hated gender. I hope Scott Bessent finds his voice and advocates for a more compassionate approach to trans humanity. A little-known fact is that in the mids, he became friends with Mark Bolland, the powerful gay deputy secretary of Prince Charles, as well as an image consultant for Camilla, tasked with.

The U. Bessent, a billionaire hedge fund manager, becomes the first openly gay, Senate-confirmed Republican Cabinet member. President Donald Trump’s new Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is now the highest ranking openly LGBTQ official in American history. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent looks on as U.S.

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on April 09, in Washington, DC. Billionaire Scott Bessent is poised to break ground as America's first openly-gay Treasury Secretary after Donald Trump selected him on Friday - and he's married to former prosecutor John Freeman.

Kelley J. We have entered a dangerous time that will require many of us to make decisions about how to respond to these attacks, not just on trans people, but immigrants who are already being arrested and deported in cities across the country. In a past article I wrote for the Blade, I stated that not enough trans people are scared in the U.

Other countries, including European countries, are quickly warning their trans citizens against traveling to the U. Unfortunately, this is true. Does he have a trans person in his life who might inform his views? Trans people are human beings, fellow Americans, and family and friends and they deserve respect from their government.

The Senate on Monday confirmed billionaire hedge fund manager and investor Scott Bessent as President Trump’s Treasury secretary, making him the highest-ranking LGBTQ official in the nation’s. Trump likes his queer people gay, white, cis, rich, and obedient. Trump, meanwhile, has already banned Pride flags at U.

Then on Monday, he issued an executive order banning transgender service members, a move that would impact more than 15, brave trans people serving in the military. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott is making plans for how the city will operate in the event he is arrested and jailed for refusing to cooperate with these immigrant raids.

Donald Trump has held the presidency for less than six months in But already, trans people have been defaced, demoralized, and fatigued. Even progressive minded institutions like Yale my alma mater and Harvard have stripped themselves of DEI. Recently, a tourist was stripped of his U.

ICE is raiding more and more immigrant families—immigrants who provide critical labor to our U. Immigrant children are forced to stand testimony and defend themselves—without a lawyer—in court. Reach him at [email protected]. So far, Bessent is silent on those attacks. The United States, in other words, is becoming more and more like a fascist state.

Will Bessent find his backbone and work to convince his boss that the anti-trans hysteria must end?