Donald Trump: This means his election victory for women and minorities worldwide
At one of his final campaign rallies on Wednesday, October 30, Donald Trump said: "I will protect women whether they like it or not." And that pretty much sums up the whole problem with Donald Trump's image of women. The future president only cared about protecting women in his election campaign if he could use the issue for his racist agenda.
According to Trump, women need protection especially from “criminal migrants” who are supposedly responsible forbe. Or as his Democratic rival Kamala Harris commented the following day: "This is just the latest example of how he thinks about women and their agency."
Donald Trump's election victory will have consequences? especially for women and minorities
A good week later it is official: Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, will also be the 47th President of the USA. A man who was found guilty of 34 charges (!) just five months before the election as part of a hush-money case was sentenced to a million-dollar fine for sexual assault in 2023? and who was impeached twice in his first presidency.
We explain what his victory means for women and minorities here:
Further restrictions on reproductive rights
Donald Trump has committed to abolishing Roe v. Wade (the verdict, which is up to histhe right to abortion) and the associated restriction of abortion rights in the USA have long been a cause for concern. He likes to sell his political views with Christian values that supposedly conflict with women's right over their own bodies. A narrative that is well received by many Republicans.
The Republican-controlled Florida legislature, for example, only passed an almost complete ban on abortion at the beginning of the year. The current law has since banned this in the eastern stateafter the sixth week of pregnancy, which is two weeks after the missed period and before many women even know they are pregnant. Furthermore, it does not provide any exceptions for rape or incest.
Now that the country will be led by a Republican again, women's reproductive rights are still in jeopardy, and not just in America. And even beyond that, as development worker Tiara Sahar Ataii emphasizes. Not only could Trump's general political views "inspire" other presidents with conservative or fascist ideas around the world to restrict or further restrict reproductive rights in their country, but also because of the so-called "gag rule".
Increased (and excused) male violence against women
Donald Trump's stance on protecting the female body is clear not only from his stance on reproductive rights, but also from his statements during the #MeToo era in 2018. At that time, more and more women published the shocking stories of sexual assault in private, but also professional context, from the average citizen to a Hollywood celebrity. Donald Trump's comment at the time: "It's a very scary time for young men in America, when you can be guilty of something you may not be guilty of?" Women are doing well.?
But it's not just his statements that are the problem, it's also how he himself sets a bad example. Donald Trump himself has been accused of multiple sexual assaults and famously bragged in 2016, after a compromising video recording of him came to light, that he would happily grab women by the p**** if he liked them. After all, as a star you can allow yourself a lot.
How exactly a new presidency will affect global violence against women is of course difficult to estimate? and above all difficult to measure. And yet we know that it makes a difference what people in positions of power model, what they normalize. This is going to be a pretty worrying one-"Trend" that has been spreading in the USA since election night, seen by some as a direct result of his election victory. The “trend?”: Men comment on the accounts of feminist users “your body my choice?” and thus distort the activist phrase “my body my choice” that abortion rights activists use. You can imagine for yourself what it means in detail when men think that they can dispose of women's bodies. One thing is clear: a threat is being shared here.
Increased dangers for women in crisis and war zones
Another danger point for women under the second Trump administration is those who live in active crisis and war zones. Because if there's one thing Trump isn't known for, it's his political diplomacy. And given his previous foreign policy? including an agreement with theabout the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan in 2020? Many are concerned about how his future decisions will affect ongoing conflicts.
On the contrary, Trump has made no secret in recent years that he has high regard for both Russian President Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. If the wars in Ukraine, Gaza or Lebanon continue to escalate under Trump's presidency, women in these war zones will face hunger, illness, sexual assault and hostage-taking.
In this context, development worker Ataii refers, among other things, to Trump's withdrawal from the nuclear agreement with the United Statesin 2018, what she called the "absolute free fall of the Iranian economy." caused and ?disastrous for women in Iran? was.
Disenfranchisement of the LGBTQIA+ community and migrant people
Donald Trump's discriminatory agenda goes far beyond women's rights. Those tooand migrants are always his target. And are even played off against each other when Trump falsely claims that sexual violence against women is primarily perpetrated by migrants. During his election campaign, he and his spokespeople promised that under a second Trump administration the “promotion of gender reassignment at all ages” would be implemented. would be discontinued and that a federal law should be enacted stating that the government does not legally recognize transgender people.
During an election campaign in October, he commented on migrant immigration to the USA as follows: “Kamala has imported an army of illegal foreign gang members and criminal migrants from Third World dungeons. From prisons, insane asylums, and mental institutions, and she has miraculously resettled them into your community to prey on innocent American citizens.? At another event the same month, he announced: "If I win on November 5th, the migrant invasion will end and the restoration of our country will begin."
This xenophobic tightening of migration should succeed with 10,000 additional border guards. Trump's contemptuous language certainly shows that violent abuse of power by these officials is to be expected at the borders with the USA.
This article was prepared with text passages and expert quotes from our GLAMOR colleagues in the UK.
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