The government has taken steps to silence media outlets and journalists, engages in abuses of migrants and refugees, demonizes and obstructs the work of human rights organizations dealing with topics at odds with its conservative, populist policies, including LGBT, refugee, and women's rights. ..…

Yet, when police refuse to acknowledge that acts of violence might be bias-motivated crimes, as they have with the killings of trans women in Klang, and when the authorities fail to condemn attacks, LGBT people are left feeling that the state does not support them. Even if perpetrators are brought to..…

., often mention both traditions in their comments about LGBT issues, [the] social justice tradition is often given short shrift in comparison to the sexual ethics tradition, and it often appears to be regarded as secondary, not primary, as the pope has made it in this comment. ..…

And in pivotal case pending before Supreme Court, Justice Department contradicted Obama and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's position that Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of LGBT status. pattern has emerged in which DOJ uses claims of..…