The blanket clamp down on international assistance has taken direct aim at aid which has assisted LGBTQI+ persons in need throughout the world. Within this is a particular ire directed at the trans community.
This will have wide ranging and
life-threatening consequences throughout vulnerable communities around the world. Foreign aid, no matter how small, has been critical in aiding protection for SOGIESC communities who are hunted, shunned, assaulted, and murdered in many parts of the world.