The 2016 election surprised everyone with the success of Donald Trump and Mike Pence as Vice/President of the United States. This will result in a “full-blown assault on LGBTQ rights (Signorile)” that many younger LGBT community members have no experienced. Despite what Trump may say, he is no friend of the gay and lesbian community. His running mate, Mike Pence, is even worse. People have claimed that “the vice president… would really be the “CEO” - or, the president of the company - while Trump would be more like the “chairman of the board (Signorile).” There has been other research that points toward Pence being the most powerful vice president we’ve seen. Mike Pence has a history against the LGBT community. He is known as one of the most
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First, Trump’s political and military background, or, lack of it. Donald Trump will be the first president of the United States that has done zero years in public office and zero years of military service (Crockett). Even the other presidents who had no political experience before entering office, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, and Dwight Eisenhower, did at least 20 years of military service. This is important because it shows his lack of experience and how easy Trump is going to be influenced in his four years (and hopefully no more than that) as …show more content…
People don’t realize how terrifying it is. The treatments range from medications - one man reported receiving near fatal doses of five different medicines. It only gets worse, one approach at conversion therapy is to “bottle… feces and… sniff it whenever… attracted to a man (Gajdics).” Going further, electroshock therapy is also used during conversion therapy. One boy in particular, at age twelve was put through conversion therapy and experienced horrifying “techniques.” One was his hands being frozen while shown pictures of intimacy - to associate it with pain (Bentley). Not just frozen, but he was also burned in similar situations. He was electrocuted many times and experienced psychological abuse with death threats (Bentley). And these are only a few examples of the torture LGBT community members go
First, Trump’s political and military background, or, lack of it. Donald Trump will be the first president of the United States that has done zero years in public office and zero years of military service (Crockett). Even the other presidents who had no political experience before entering office, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, and Dwight Eisenhower, did at least 20 years of military service. This is important because it shows his lack of experience and how easy Trump is going to be influenced in his four years (and hopefully no more than that) as …show more content…
People don’t realize how terrifying it is. The treatments range from medications - one man reported receiving near fatal doses of five different medicines. It only gets worse, one approach at conversion therapy is to “bottle… feces and… sniff it whenever… attracted to a man (Gajdics).” Going further, electroshock therapy is also used during conversion therapy. One boy in particular, at age twelve was put through conversion therapy and experienced horrifying “techniques.” One was his hands being frozen while shown pictures of intimacy - to associate it with pain (Bentley). Not just frozen, but he was also burned in similar situations. He was electrocuted many times and experienced psychological abuse with death threats (Bentley). And these are only a few examples of the torture LGBT community members go