Civil Rights
It’s hard to cover the topic of Civil Rights as it relates to Project 2025, because almost every section of the document contains different assaults on civil rights. From higher education to the very definition of family, this overarching document has the potential to change every single facet of American life.
Colleges will be allowed to discriminate against students based on their race and sex. This would mean some students would be treated unfairly when applying to college, limiting opportunities for marginalized groups. Colleges will no longer be forced to accept diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. (352)
Project 2025 would allow religious organizations to discriminate against people they don't agree with, which would violate the rights of those people, particularly those from marginalized communities. (586)
The Supreme Court's Bostock v Clayton County’s application of sex discrimination protections to sexual orientation and transgender status in the context of hiring and firing would be eliminated, which would allow employers to more easily hire and fire based on sexual orientation or gender identity. (584)
The President should direct agencies to rescind regulations interpreting sex discrimination provisions as prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, sex characteristics, etc. (584)
Project 2025 would eliminate the terms sexual orientation and gender identity, diversity, equity, and inclusion, gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, and reproductive rights among others of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists. (4)
Define family as comprised of a married mother, father, and their children and therefore the foundation of a well-ordered nation and healthy society. (481)
Project 2025 will protect faith-based grant recipients from religious liberty violations that maintain a biblically based, social science–reinforced definition of marriage and family. (451)
Project 2025 will emphasize "traditional family values" and the importance of marriage and nuclear families. (451)