The revoked order targeted by Trump, President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order No. 11246, represented a watershed moment in civil rights enforcement when originally signed. President Barack Obama expanded the order in 2014 to protect against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he will revoke nearly 80 executive actions of the previous administration, with the Republican adding he also will implement an immediate regulation freeze and a hiring freeze.

With concerns of President Donald Trump’s policies targeting the LGBTQ+ community looming, lawyers advise individuals on actions to take to guarantee their rights.

The LGBTQ+ community is worried by one of President Donald Trump's executive orders, which calls for federal agencies to only recognize two sexes -- male and female. The executive order says gender identity "does not provide a meaningful basis for identification.

The United States will recognize only two sexes, male and female, that are unchangeable, President Donald Trump ordered on Monday as he moved to quickly end a range of policies aimed at promoting racial equity and protecting rights for LGBTQ+ people.

The “Protecting The Meaning and Value of American Citizenship” —better known as the birthright citizenship executive order—attempts to cancel the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Getting rid of constitutional amendments via executive order is new, and, for me at least, “the worst.”