Social conservatism
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| 2025 | Hundreds of customers lined up outside a new Chick-fil-A restaurant in Cambridge, Ontario, as early as 5 AM despite freezing cold temperatures. |
| 2025 | Chick-fil-A backtracked on its cage-free egg commitment, citing industry barriers and bird flu. |
| March 2025 |
Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric
Meta updated its hate speech policies to allow 'allegations of mental illness or abnormality' based on sexual orientation or gender identity, which The Advocate criticized as potentially enabling hateful and dehumanizing rhetoric on platforms like Facebook and Instagram.
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| 2025 | Launched the Presidential Transition Project (Project 2025), an extensive plan aimed at transforming federal agencies, imposing conservative policy changes, and preparing for potential political leadership transitions. |
| March 2025 | The Oversight Project spread an unfounded story questioning the validity of President Biden's presidential actions by claiming his signatures were identical and machine-generated, calling him the 'Hologram President'. |
| March 22 2025 | Attended a four-day Houthi conference in Sanaa, Yemen, meeting Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree and condemning U.S. strikes on Yemen. |
| March 2025 |
2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
Multiple states under Trump's presidency introduce and advance bills restricting transgender youth's access to gender-affirming healthcare and participation in school sports, representing a coordinated national movement against LGBTQ rights.
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| March 2025 | Brita Horn, former Routt County treasurer, is elected chairperson of the Colorado Republican Party. |
| February 23 2025 | Attended Hassan Nasrallah's funeral in Beirut, Lebanon, and revealed in an interview with Al Mayadeen that he had been living in Moscow for five months, fearing U.S. government retribution. |
| February 18 2025 |
2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
Kansas state legislature overrode Governor Laura Kelly's veto of Senate Bill 63, banning gender-affirming care for minors, with existing treatments to cease by December 31, 2025.
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| February 2025 | Chick-fil-A opened a second restaurant in Templepatrick, Northern Ireland under a partnership with Welcome Break. |
| February 2025 |
2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
Gallup Poll found 58% of Americans supported allowing openly transgender people to serve in the military, a decrease from 66% in 2021, primarily due to decreased Republican support.
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| February 5 2025 |
2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
The State Department announced a ban on transgender athletes entering the United States for competing in women's sports, introducing a tracking marker 'SWS25' for visa applicants suspected of such intent.
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| February 5 2025 |
2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
President Trump signed an executive order titled 'Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports', directing federal agencies and state attorneys general to prohibit transgender girls and women from participating in women's sports.
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| February 3 2025 | A District of Columbia court awarded the trademarked name and symbols of the Proud Boys to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church after the group failed to satisfy the monetary judgment from the previous lawsuit. |
| January 29 2025 |
2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14190 titled 'Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling', which appears to target LGBTQ-related content in educational settings.
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| January 28 2025 |
2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
President Trump signed Executive Order 14187, which prohibited federal funding and support for gender-affirming care for minors, describing such care as 'chemical and surgical mutilation'. The order directed federal agencies to review and restrict insurance coverage and grants related to gender-affirming procedures.
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| January 28 2025 |
2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
President Donald Trump ordered a comprehensive freeze on federal funding grants, loans, and aid, targeting organizations perceived as promoting what he termed 'Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies'.
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| January 27 2025 |
2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
President Trump signed an executive order reinstating the transgender military ban, arguing that being transgender conflicts with military service standards. The order explicitly states that transgender individuals 'cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service' and that being transgender contradicts 'a soldier's commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle'.
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| January 2025 | Leaked documents revealed the Oversight Project's plan to dox Wikipedia editors allegedly deemed antisemitic, using controversial techniques like facial recognition and IP address harvesting. |
| January 20 2025 |
2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
President Donald Trump signs Executive Order 14168, which defines sex as a strict male-female binary, mandates federal agencies to use 'sex' instead of 'gender', and prohibits gender self-identification on official documents. The order also bars transgender people from government-funded single-sex facilities and halts federal funding for gender-affirming care.
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| January 20 2025 | A large group of Proud Boys marched through Washington, DC during Donald Trump's second inauguration, wearing black and yellow attire. They chanted 'Free our boys' and '51st state', referencing Trump's comments about annexing Canada. |
| January 20 2025 | Upon Trump's inauguration, a full pardon was granted to most Capitol attack participants, with five specific Proud Boys (Nordean, Biggs, Rehl, Pezzola, and Bertino) excluded and having their sentences commuted to 'time served'. |
| January 20 2025 | President Trump commuted sentences of individuals convicted of seditious conspiracy and granted a full, unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to the January 6, 2021 Capitol events. |
| January 2025 | Chick-fil-A announced plans to centralize lemonade production in a new automated facility in California, capable of processing 30-35 truckloads of lemons daily. |
| January 2025 | Chick-fil-A opened its first full UK restaurant in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. |
| January 2025 |
2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
The Trump administration resumes power and begins implementing policies targeting LGBTQ rights, marking a significant escalation in anti-LGBTQ legislative efforts across the United States.
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| January 2025 |
2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
New York Times/Ipsos poll showed 71% of Americans believed no trans person under 18 should have access to gender-affirming care and 79% supported banning transgender athletes from women's sports.
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| January 2025 | Described his MAGA communist movement as supporting 'Anti-Imperialism, Multipolarity, and Orthodox Communism'. |
| January 2025 | Wikipedia editors decided to blacklist the Heritage Foundation website after discussions about the doxing plan. |
| 2024 | Susannah Frost becomes the new president of Chick-fil-A, continuing the company's leadership transition. |
| 2024 | Chick-fil-A opened locations in Alberta, including one in the Phase III food court of West Edmonton Mall and another on Macleod Trail in Calgary. |
| 2024 | Randall Terry received the party's presidential nomination. |
| 2024 | Republicans successfully erased the Democrats' majority in Colorado's U.S. House delegation when Gabe Evans defeated incumbent Democrat Yadira Caraveo. |
| 2024 |
Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric
Peru passed a short-lived insurance law categorizing transgender identities as a mental disorder, legally classifying transgender status as a mental health condition.
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| 2024 | Relaunch of Liberty Theological Seminary within the Rawlings School of Divinity. |
| 2024 | The Oversight Project published a misleading video falsely claiming 14% of non-citizens in Georgia were registered to vote. |
| 2024 | The Heritage Foundation launches Project 2025, a comprehensive initiative aimed at preparing a conservative policy blueprint for the next presidential administration, designed to provide detailed policy recommendations across various government departments. |
| 2024 |
Anti-transgender movement in the United Kingdom
Hilary Cass, who chaired the Cass Review, told Kemi Badenoch that the proposed conversion therapy ban was risky and warned the government about potential workforce problems.
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| 2024 |
2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
Democratic politicians Sherrod Brown and Colin Allred partially concede to Republican positions on transgender issues.
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| 2024 |
2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa expresses anti-transgender sentiments, subsequently apologizes, and resigns from his position.
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| 2024 |
2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election, with anti-trans advertisements playing a controversial role in campaign messaging.
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| 2024 |
2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
Republican Party spends over $215 million on anti-trans advertisements during the presidential election campaign, targeting transgender healthcare, social participation, and sports involvement.
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| 2024 |
2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
Trump committed to pushing for a nationwide prohibition on hormonal and surgical gender-affirming interventions for minors in all 50 states.
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| 2024 |
2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump proposed an executive order to halt federal agency promotion of sex or gender transition for all ages, and pledged to seek Congressional legislation recognizing only two genders determined at birth.
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| 2024 |
2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
Disney removed storylines, episodes, and lines of dialogue involving transgender characters from shows set to air following Donald Trump's election.
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| 2024 |
2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States
Trump proposed removing federal funding (including Medicare and Medicaid) from hospitals and healthcare providers offering transitional hormones or surgical interventions.
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| 2024 | Denounced the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, describing it as a 'victory for the US-backed al-Qaeda'. |
| 2024 |
Organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-LGBTQ hate groups
SPLC added two anti-transgender organizations, Genspect and Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM), to its hate groups list.
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| 2024 | Long-time member Daniel Burnside left the NSM, denounced the far-right, and asked for forgiveness for his past. |
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