Presidential Hopeful Cory Booker Pledges to Reverse Trump’s anti-LGBTI Policies

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03/19/2019

Presidential challenger Cory Booker has pledged to reverse a number of Trump administration policies undermining LGBT+ rights. The Democratic senator, one of 14 candidates who are seeking the party’s nomination in 2020, set out his commitments on LGBT+ issues at a rally in Davenport, Iowa on Sunday (March 17). Addressing an audience question from a transgender woman at the event, Booker said: “When I am president of the United States, right away I will end this ridiculous, insulting, un-American ban on transgender Americans serving in the military.

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