Policy brief outlines the dangers to equality and public health
posed by the policies in the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025
Presidential Transition Project, and urges Americans to make sure
they understand the potential impact to health care quality,
equity, and access if the policies are implemented.
BOSTON, July 30,
2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today, The Fenway
Institute of Fenway Health released a policy brief outlining the
dangers to equality and public health posed by the policies in the
Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project,
and urging Americans to make sure they understand the potential
impact to health care quality, equity, and access if the policies
are implemented.
Project 2025 articulates a dystopian agenda
that would radically weaken the nation's public health
infrastructure, further restrict access to reproductive health
care, and criminalize efforts to support LGBTQIA+ youth.
"Project 2025 articulates a dystopian agenda that would
radically weaken the nation's public health infrastructure, further
restrict access to reproductive health care, and criminalize
efforts to support LGBTQIA+ youth," said Sean Cahill, PhD, Director of Health Policy
Research at The Fenway Institute and co-author of the brief. "It is
critical that Americans understand the threats posed to all people
living in the United States by
Project 2025. The stakes are incredibly high."
The brief, titled "Project 2025's threat to LGBTQIA+ equality,
safety, and health, racial and gender equity, and sexual and
reproductive health," documents the anti-LGBTQIA+ and racial equity
biases of Project 2025's architects, many of whom served in former
President Donald Trump's first
administration. It also explains the ways in which the proposals
affecting the Department of Health and Human Services and specific
agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
would harm people who are LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, newly arrived to the
country, living in poverty, living with disabilities, or otherwise
disadvantaged or marginalized.
The policy brief summarizes Project 2025, which is a
comprehensive framework for governance during a potential second
Trump administration. It includes strategic planning and policy
proposals that would do the following:
- Charge adults who support LGBTQIA+ and questioning youth in
schools and libraries as sex offenders
- End federal government and private sector DEI initiatives aimed
at increasing racial and gender representation in all levels of the
workforce
- Remove any mention of sexual orientation, gender identity, and
reproductive health from all federal regulations, laws, and grant
funding opportunities
- End the collection of gender identity data in disease
surveillance systems
- Remove SOGI nondiscrimination language from federal
regulations, and end the enforcement of SOGI nondiscrimination
policies
- End federal government health equity initiatives aimed at
people who are LGBTQIA+ and/or BIPOC
- End federal support for gender-affirming health care for adults
and portray such care as harmful
- Allow faith-based human service providers to discriminate
against LGBTQIA+ families
"Many of these proposals would eliminate best practices in
public health, such as data collection, that inform interventions
to reduce health care disparities that result from inequities based
on race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation," Cahill added.
"A lot of LGBTQIA+ health research and racial equity work in
healthcare is still just getting off the ground. These proposals
would undermine efforts to improve health outcomes for women,
people of color, and sexual and gender minority people in our
society."
"Project 2025's threat to LGBTQIA+ equality, safety, and health,
racial and gender equity, and sexual and reproductive health," is
available online here.
About Fenway Health & The Fenway Institute
Founded in 1971, Fenway Health advocates for and delivers
innovative, equitable, accessible health care, supportive services,
and transformative research and education. We center LGBTQIA+
people, BIPOC individuals, and other underserved communities to
enable our local, national, and global neighbors to flourish. The
Fenway Institute at Fenway Health is an interdisciplinary center
for research, training, education and policy development focusing
on national and international health issues.
Media Contact
Christopher Viveiros, Fenway
Health, 6177217494, cviveiros@fenwayhealth.org,
www.fenwayhealth.org
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