Here's where the 2024 presidential candidates stand on LGBTQ+ issues
LGBTQ+ issues have, at times, been a flashpoint in the 2024 election.
Many Republicans have campaigned on restricting gender-affirming care, banning classroom instruction of sexual orientation and gender identity and speaking out against transgender girls playing in women's sports.
Democrats have expressed more vocal support for LGBTQ+ issues.
Here's a brief look at where the major candidates stand on the issue.
Kamala Harris
Harris has long been an outspoken advocate for same-sex marriage, officiating some of the nation's first same-sex marriage ceremonies as district attorney in San Francisco. As vice president, she supported the Respect for Marriage Act, a landmark piece of bipartisan legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriages.
She's also expressed support for the Equality Act, a bill that would protect LGBTQ Americans from discrimination. The legislation would expand federal civil rights law to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in areas such as public facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing, credit, and the jury system.
Harris has said the "freedom to love who you love openly and with pride" is at stake this election.
Donald Trump
Trump has been very vocal against transgender issues, repeating, "I will keep men out of women's sports" in many of his stump speeches.
He's said he will restore the ban on openly transgender people serving in the military that his previous administration had imposed -- and that he will sign a law to "stop" gender-affirming care for minors nationwide, equating such care to "mutilation."
Trump has also vowed to dismantle a Title IX expansion under President Joe Biden to include gender identity under sex-based discrimination protections.
ABC News' Alexandra Hutzler, Kiara Alfonesca, Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, Libby Cathey, Abby Cruz, Hannah Demissie, Fritz Farrow, Lalee Ibssa, Soo Rin Kim, Nicholas Kerr, Will McDuffie, Kendall Ross and Kelsey Walsh contributed to this report.
