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Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Human Rights Assistance in the Time of Trump

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2018

Cynthia Burack
Cynthia Burack*
Affiliation:
Ohio State University
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Abstract

The US government was a late adopter of support and advocacy for international sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) human rights. Although US support for SOGI human rights did not begin in the Obama administration, after 2011 such support was expanded, publicized, and institutionalized. Since the 2016 presidential election, many international and grassroots LGBTQI human rights activists have expressed concern about the prospects for US SOGI advocacy in the Trump administration. No definitive policy changes have been made public, but clues to the future of US advocacy for SOGI can be found in a variety of sites. These include the discourse and policy articulations of the secretary and human rights officials in the State Department as well as those of legislators who fund human rights programs and exercise oversight over it.

Keywords

LGBTSexual Orientation and Gender IdentityHuman RightsGlobal Equality FundUS State Department
Type
Research Article
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Politics & Gender , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 2018 , pp. 561 - 580
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2018 

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