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On the always contentious subject of LGBT issues, both parties鈥� 2024 platforms are significant鈥攐ne for what it contains, the other for what it omits.

The Democrats鈥� 2024 platform looks much like the . Written before Vice President Harris replaced President 麻豆视传媒免费观看 at the top of the ticket, and without significant revision, the 2024 document declares: 鈥淧resident 麻豆视传媒免费观看 is committed to leading the most pro-equality administration in history.鈥� It boasts that 麻豆视传媒免费观看 signed the (recognizing same-sex marriage in federal law), former President Trump鈥檚 ban on military service by transgender Americans, service members who were punished by the military for their sexuality, the Food and Drug Administration鈥檚 ban on blood donations by gay and bisexual men, , and more.

Also as in 2020, the 2024 platform pledges to pass the , a bill that would extend federal civil rights protections to LGBT people that has passed the House but stalled in the Senate; to protect the rights of LGBT adoptive and foster parents; to restrict so-called 鈥渃onversion therapy鈥� and expand mental health and suicide prevention efforts targeting LGBT people; and to fight 鈥渉ate-fueled鈥� violence.

Among the most controversial issues in the culture wars is the provision of 鈥済ender-affirming鈥� medical treatment to minors, which U.S.-based pediatric medical associations say is medically necessary but which some countries in Europe have backed away from. , most of them Republican-led, have banned or restricted such procedures. The Democratic platform does not shy away from this issue, promising that 鈥淒emocrats will vigorously oppose state and federal bans on gender-affirming health care and respect the role of parents, families, and doctors鈥攏ot politicians鈥攊n making health care decisions.鈥�

All in all, the platform extends and renews promises the party made to LGBT Americans in 2020鈥攁nd, in doing so, consolidates the party鈥檚 repudiation of its checkered past on LGBT issues. Only a few years ago, the party handled LGBT issues cautiously and often, for LGBT advocates, disappointingly. President Bill Clinton signed the anti-gay-marriage Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, and candidate Barack Obama same-sex marriage in 2008. Today, on LGBT issues, there is little daylight between the Democratic Party and its progressive wing.

By comparison, the 2024 Republican platform has little to say on LGBT issues and that is, in itself, a significant change for the GOP. In fact, it devotes only a few sentences to the subject, and those are confined to the 鈥淭鈥� (transgender) portion of the debate. It promises to 鈥渄efund schools that engage in inappropriate political indoctrination using federal taxpayer dollars,鈥� including 鈥済ender indoctrination鈥�; it likewise promises to 鈥渆nd left-wing gender insanity鈥� by keeping men out of women鈥檚 sports, banning taxpayer funding for sex change surgery, and stopping taxpayer-funded schools from promoting gender transition.

On 鈥淟,鈥� 鈥淕,鈥� and 鈥淏鈥� issues (lesbian, gay, and bisexual), the platform keeps a silence that speaks volumes. The vigorously condemned same-sex marriage, promised to defend marriage 鈥渁gainst an activist judiciary鈥� and said, 鈥淥ur laws and our government鈥檚 regulations should recognize marriage as the union of one man and one woman.鈥� By contrast, here鈥檚 everything the 2024 platform has to say about marriage (the GOP skipped writing a platform in 2020): 鈥淩epublicans will promote a culture that values the sanctity of marriage, the blessings of childhood, the foundational role of families, and supports working parents. We will end policies that punish families.鈥� Nothing about or against same-sex marriage.

What鈥檚 the reason? The party follows Donald Trump; and he, while no friend of transgender Americans, has never been inclined to attack gays and lesbians, even though LGBT groups have him. Less than a week after the 2016 election, he repudiated his party鈥檚 platform by telling he had no problem with same-sex marriage. More recently, in 2024, Melania Trump held for the Log Cabin Republicans, an LGBT Republican group. In the pre-Trump era, those actions would have brought a rain of brickbats down upon a Republican presidential candidate.

Charles Moran, the Log Cabin Republicans鈥� president, may have overstated the case when he , 鈥淭his platform is welcoming, it鈥檚 inclusive, this is the most radical and revolutionary way to make the Republican Party competitive in many years.鈥� But he was not off the mark. Although the culture war over gender identity continues, the GOP has waved the white flag on marriage. It is a sign of Trump鈥檚 transformational influence on the GOP that today, on the most controversial LGBT issue of the past 50 years, his Republicans stand to the left of Barack Obama鈥檚 2008 Democrats.