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Enable Discrimination
Project 2025 proposals will:

Enable Discrimination Across Society

Threatened by decades of progress in advancing civil rights and equality for all, the authors of Project 2025 want to create a country that allows for more discrimination where we live, study, work, and play — and roll back hard-fought victories by our movements for progress.

Below is “How They’d Do It.” (Click a topic for the details)

Project 2025 proposes that the president should remove a key tool that the federal government uses to enforce civil rights protections.
Project 2025 proposes that the federal government stop the long-standing use of “disparate impact” in assessing discrimination by ending its use in discrimination cases and even bringing lawsuits that challenge the standard’s constitutionality.
In 2022, more than 368,000 children were enrolled in foster care in the U.S. Project 2025 would instruct the Department of Health and Human Services to repeal a 2016 regulation that provides additional protections for foster youth, related to sexual orientation and gender identity.
This standard provides an important remedy for DOJ and others to bring civil rights cases when groups of people have their civil rights violated in areas such as employment discrimination and fair housing, so discontinuing its use will make it harder for the federal government to enforce civil rights protections in everything from housing to education to employment.
Disparate impact standards have long been ruled constitutional by the United States Supreme Court, so Project 2025’s attempts are baseless.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS: “Courts have ruled that even without evidence of overt, intentional discrimination, such results might suggest discrimination. This doctrine of disparate impact could be ended legislatively or at least narrowed through the regulatory process by a future Administration.” – – – – – – – – TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM “Mandate for Leadership” p. 72 snd p. 583
Population counts can be essential to groups receiving appropriations and resources from the federal government like Medicaid, Head Start, community mental health programs, and much more — so Project 2025’s plans to undercount or undermine the accuracy of these counts would hurt communities that have been economically marginalized.
The special interests behind Project 2025 want to reverse the longstanding body of work by civil rights activists who have encouraged the federal government to collect more sophisticated data when it comes to racial and ethnic groups, which has helped ensure communities that have been historically under-resourced because of their racial demographics receive proper allocations of resources.
In 2022, more than 368,000 children were enrolled in foster care in the U.S. Project 2025 would instruct the Department of Health and Human Services to repeal a 2016 regulation that provides additional protections for foster youth, related to sexual orientation and gender identity.
Project 2025 would advise a future administration to hamstring these revisions by instructing the White House Office of Management and Budget to reverse them and ensure that other federal agencies are not aiding in the collection of more accurate data. This would leave historically underrepresented communities at a disadvantage when it comes to accessing critical programs we rely on every day — from Medicaid to Head Start.
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From “Mandate for Leadership” p. 680
Project 2025 would eliminate the White House Gender Policy Council, which is key to promoting contraception access, gender-based violence prevention, and women’s health equity. Project 2025 would make it easier for state and child welfare agencies — which are charged by the public to provide appropriate care for children — to cite religious exemptions as a way to promote bigotry.
Under the Biden administration, the White House Gender Policy Council has led efforts to increase access to contraception, published the National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence, and begun groundbreaking research into how women’s health is studied across the country. Project 2025 would immediately disband the Council and prioritize coordinating efforts that push for “promoting life” and emphasize a narrow vision of what defines a “family.” From “Mandate for Leadership” p. 62
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Enabling adoption and foster care agencies to subject vulnerable children to the whims of extreme religious beliefs would be detrimental to the physical, mental, and emotional health of fostered/adopted youth, especially LGBTQ+ youth, who are already dealing with intense adversities.
From “Mandate for Leadership” p. 477
Project 2025 proposes to eliminate the EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights.
EPA’s newly-created Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights is the agency’s dedicated office for ensuring that environmental and public health policies are crafted and implemented in ways that ensure no communities are left behind or disproportionately harmed.
Eliminating this office would put the communities that have historically borne the brunt of harms from pollution, climate change, and other hazards — which are too often Black and brown communities — at increased risk.
From “Mandate for Leadership” p. 477
By misinterpreting Supreme Court precedent and allowing more religious exemptions, Project 2025 would roll back protections against discrimination against LGBTQ+ people and others in the workplace.
LGBTQ+ Americans have had to fight for protections under the law and in recent years we have witnessed important gains, including the Supreme Court’s confirmation of federal protections in the workplace, which logically extend to other areas like health care and schools. Yet, Project 2025 wants to reverse this progress.
Project 2025 plans to restrict the application of a critical 2020 Supreme Court case called Bostock v. Clayton County that assures workplace protections for LGBTQ+ people through making clear that discrimination against LGBTQ+ people is a form of sex discrimination prohibited by our federal civil rights laws. Project 2025 would try to enable greater workplace discrimination through allowing employers to impose their religious or moral beliefs on their employees.
Additionally, the Biden administration has helped to ensure protections from gender identity discrimination across many aspects of our lives, including “health care, housing, education, credit and lending services, and community safety programs.”Additionally, the Biden administration has helped to ensure protections from gender identity discrimination across many aspects of our lives, including “health care, housing, education, credit and lending services, and community safety programs.”
Project 2025, however, would roll back and severely limit those protections and leave already-vulnerable people at increased risk for discrimination when trying to rent an apartment, go to school, and more.
From “Mandate for Leadership” p. 584 & 586

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