President Donald Trump has already checked off nearly 70% of the anti-LGBTQ+ policy goals outlined in Project 2025, the far-right blueprint for his second term created by the Christian Nationalist think tank, The Heritage Foundation. That’s according to the website Project 2025 Tracker, which calls itself a “comprehensive, community-driven initiative” monitoring these proposals.
Of the blueprint’s 18 queer-community-related goals, the tracker lists 11 as “completed,” three as “in progress,” and four as “not started.” Many so-called “completed” actions have targeted gender-affirming healthcare, erased LGBTQ-inclusive language from federal rules, and reinterpreted anti-discrimination laws to exclude trans and nonbinary people.
Most were enacted through Trump’s executive orders, meaning a future president could reverse them. Few became law through Congress. The “in progress” list includes cutting funds to so-called “woke” groups and prioritizing heterosexual families in policy.
The “not started” category includes rescinding Medicare coverage for gender-affirming surgeries, criminalizing pro-trans educators and librarians, and protecting religious-based discrimination. Overall, the tracker says Trump has completed 47% of all Project 2025 goals just seven months into his second term, aided by a Republican Congress and a conservative Supreme Court majority.
Trump has denied any link to Project 2025, saying, “Some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal… Anything they do, I wish them luck, but have nothing to do with them.”
But as then–Vice Presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz put it at the Democratic National Convention, “When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re going to use it.”
For the queer community, the question now isn’t if Project 2025 is real — it’s how much more of it will become reality.
