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Martin Pengelly in Washington

US hard-right policy group condemned for ‘dehumanising’ anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric

Project 2025, an initiave led by the hard-right Heritage Foundation.
Project 2025, an initiative led by the hard-right Heritage Foundation. Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/AP

An exhaustive manifesto for the next conservative US president produced by Project 2025, an initiative led by the hard-right Heritage Foundation, uses “dehumanising language” about LGBTQ+ Americans too extreme even for candidates currently seeking the Republican presidential nomination, a leading advocate said.

“The dehumanising language is consistent with the way the right talks about LGBTQ+ people overall,” said Sasha Buchert, director of the Non-Binary and Transgender Rights Project for Lambda Legal.

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