2020 presidential candidates that are against gay rights

Cory Booker was first to take the stage, connecting much of the current LGBTQ community fight for equal rights to the civil rights movement of the s. Booker only promised to hold schools "accountable" through "consequences. Front-runner, former Vice President Joe Biden, repeated a topic he's discussed regularly on the trail -- that he was ahead of his former boss, President Barack Obama, on pushing gay rights during that administration.

PolitiFact FL: Where Trump and Biden stand on key LGBTQ+ issues

5. Gender identity, sexual orientation and the 2024 election

Since , the Trump administration has weakened trans-inclusive protections in schools , attempted to remove LGBTQ protections in health care and proposed allowing homeless shelters to turn away transgender people. Marriage equality, too, may be under threat.

And two decades after the first same-sex marriages were legally performed in the U. There are wider demographic differences in opinions about gender identity among Biden supporters than among Trump supporters. Across demographic groups, wide majorities of Trump supporters say gender is determined by sex at birth.