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With just over a year left in President Donald Trump's first term, another late-breaking news item barely made waves: The Interior Department — which manages the majority of the federal government's public lands — deleted "sexual orientation" from its anti-discrimination guidelines, as HuffPost first reported last week. The removal was just the latest in a nearly three-year-long effort to strip mention of LGBTQ people from the executive branch bureaucracy.

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In July 2017, on the day he announced the transgender military ban on Twitter, Trump's Justice Department officially shifted course regarding its legal interpretation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Unlike the Obama administration, the Trump team would not interpret the decades-old law to prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation.

In November 2017, the General Services Administration removed "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" from its 2015 discrimination statement. In March 2018, lesbian and bisexual resources disappeared from the website of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Indeed, the government's own civil rights watchdog group, the Commission on Civil Rights, in November found a systematic approach to dismantling LGBTQ rights protections.

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GLAAD, one of the president's most vocal critics, has launched a Trump Accountability Project, which has tracked "133 attacks on "LGBTQ people" since the president took office.

  NBC