Project 2025 Can Affect Everyone and Everything—Including You
- Richard Buchner
- Sep 29, 2024
- 4 min read
Updated: Nov 20, 2024

As Election Day draws near, more and more people are becoming nervous and on edge about what the future will hold for them. Specifically, many within the LGBTQ Community view the upcoming 2024 Election as a day of reckoning that will ultimately decide the direction of the U.S.—and whether it includes them.
Surprisingly, though, many undecided voters within the Gen Z demographic have little to no knowledge of the two words that will drastically change their future: Project 2025.
So, what is Project 2025?
In a nutshell, Project 2025 is essentially a guidebook created by far-right extremists that drastically changes almost every function of our government. With the help of a newly-appointed conservative president, the plan would use executive powers to roll back any LGBTQ rights for Americans within its first 180 days post-implementation. The project focuses on restoring “the family as the centerpiece of American life and protecting our children,” according to the official document's text.
Who Created and Supported It?
The project was initially founded, funded, and published by the Heritage Foundation. According to its official website, the plan was produced by what some call “The Conservative Think Tanks.”
Acting as the project’s director, Paul Dans was a former Trump Advisor and administration official during his presidency. Other notorious names, such as Stephen Miller and Roger Severino, are also included in the document's list of authors.
Kiron Skinner, the former director of the Office of Policy and Planning, wrote a chapter detailing the radical changes brought about by Project 2025 within the State Department. In 2019, Skinner was fired for using homophobic slurs toward staff and for overall unprofessional behavior during the Trump administration.
Current House Speaker Mike Johnson has also donated to the organization due to its longstanding ties to evangelical and conservative viewpoints.
The current President of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, has officially stated that Donald Trump supported and knew about the project for years.
While the former U.S. president has been desperate to distance himself from the project—even calling it “abysmal,” the project's creation and affiliation show very close ties to Trump.
How will it affect the LGBTQ Community?
From the initial text of the document, the plan outright calls on the deletion of the practice of diversity, equity, and inclusion, otherwise known as DEI.
The plan will attempt to enact what is called “The Mandate for Leadership,” which essentially changes the federal government from the inside out. Federal agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), would undergo a complete overhaul that would reduce and eliminate over 100,000 jobs.
While many have speculated that the plan focuses on replacing federal employees who align more closely with conservative views, others have noticed that the document contains language that supports open discrimination.
Project 2025 would severely limit the application of the Supreme Court’s Ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, which prohibited any sexual discrimination applied to LGBTQ individuals. The text in the official document states that Title VII’s sex discrimination protections would only apply to traditional gender roles such as male or female.
According to the official document on page nine, the plan states how it will use “tools” to “fire supposedly ‘un-fireable’ federal bureaucrats” and how it will use its newly founded powers to “muzzle woke propaganda at every level of government.”
In addition to supporting discriminatory and hateful rhetoric, the plan also focuses on deleting GPC, otherwise known as the Gender Policy Council. With executive powers, Project 2025 said that it would eliminate “new woke gender ideology.”
This agenda would essentially prohibit anyone across America who is transgender from serving in the military and other government functions. The text states how “the toxic normalization of transgenderism” has infiltrated public schools-- claiming that the discussion of gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation somehow supports the act of abortion and how it seeks to change that by providing alternative practices focusing on “life” instead.
The document also states how it would affect the Health and Human Services, gaining inspiration from the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, which dealt with medical privacy.
A senior staff member who wishes to remain anonymous due to safety concerns shared their thoughts on how the plan would drastically affect them and their work at Albuquerque’s TriCore, a medical laboratory located in town.
“The enacting of Project 2025 would subvert the inherent privacy legally afforded a patient’s medical records and force the lab to function as a surveillance operative for a newly formed police state, monitoring hormone levels and medications provided to our community in New Mexico.” They further added, “This invasion of privacy would not stop at the lab, but expand outward to all medical services, from counseling, to wellness screenings, and invasive surgeries, and everything in between.” Summarizing everything with “Yeah, it’s severely fucked up.”
In April 2019, Former President Donald Trump officially banned any transgender Americans from serving in the military—affecting over fifteen thousand troops that were currently serving at that time. While President Biden overturned the decision in Jan 2021, Project 2025 would reinstate the ban by reversing that policy through Executive Powers.
Unchecked and Unbalanced Government Powers?
While Project 2025’s primary focus has been restructuring American politics to fit a conservative agenda, the 900-page document focuses on giving power solely to the Executive Branch through its sweeping national changes.
Overall, Project 2025 is a force to be reckoned with. At its core, the plan focuses on fundamentally diminishing any sort of diplomacy in favor of an anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ stance that sacrifices the security alliance the U.S. currently holds.
As the 2024 Election is just around the corner, the old saying goes: “you may not mess with politics, but politics will mess with you.”
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