Donald Trump’s administration is going to be so bad for women — especially women of color
Among the policies the Trump administration promises to pursue are several that could exacerbate discrimination against already-marginalized groups. The president-elect’s agenda includes
- Walking back the Affordable Care Act, which has helped an estimated 20 million people get health insurance and expanded access to affordable contraception
- Overturning Roe v. Wade, increasing opportunities for states to limit abortion rights in the U.S.
- Defunding Planned Parenthood, which he has acknowledged would decrease access to basic healthcare services, especially for women and families with low incomes.
Predicting Trump’s cabinet will disregard women’s rights and needs is an example of one of the election’s biggest lessons: Hate tends to be intersectional.
Sure, these issues will affect straight, white women. But women of color and queer women — who are disproportionately impacted by pay disparities and more likely to live in poverty — will undoubtedly shoulder the burden of the Trump administration’s most harmful social and economic plans, from childcare policies that favor the rich to increased health care costs.
“We already know these barriers [to health care and pay equity] are being put in place and are impacting women, but disproportionately impacting women of color, who don’t have means to access reproductive care, for instance,” said Christy Gamble, director of health policy and legislative affairs at the Black Women’s Health Imperative. “Black women are more likely to receive care at Planned Parenthood or other care facilities that happen to also have abortion providers. If we’re restricting Title X funding based on a hospital or provider also being an abortion provider … then we’re restricting black women’s access to care.” Read more
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