I heard from one of my friends that their father was upset about the tariffs President Trump threatened to put on Colombia because it would mean no Colombian coffee. It’s a real concern. The potential trade war between our country and Colombia doesn’t bode well for the price of groceries. It would be a disaster to not have your favorite coffee blend. More of a disaster than women being unable to have rights within this newfound dictatorship. More than trans rights, gay and lesbian rights. But who am I to talk? I’m just a pansexual woman trying to live my life in a regime run by old white men who only to make a worldwide panic when it comes to coffee beans.
Day one of Trump being in office and he’s already removed all federal initiatives related to diversity, equity and inclusion. He also repealed several executive orders issued by former President Joe Biden that aimed to promote gender equality and gay rights. But that’s not all. Trump also ordered the creation of definitions for biological male and female to “restore biological truth to the federal government” and combat the recognition of transgender and intersex people, several journalists reported on the Fierce Healthcare website.
These actions are a clear slant towards the social progress this country was trying to make in the last few decades. Trans, gay and lesbian people no longer exist in Trump’s dictatorship. Neither does women’s rights.
His anti-women mindset includes many things, most of them published two years ago in Project 2025. These include: blocking access to abortion pills through strategies such as revoking mifepristone access, a common medication regimen for medical abortion, and creating an anti-abortion taskforce by changing the Department of Health and Human Services into the “Department of Life,” enhancing anti-abortion rhetoric.
He’s removing the rights women have to affordable healthcare. It’s happening already. On January 24, NBC Boston journalist Mary Markos reported, “‘Just hours after taking the oath of office, Donald Trump took down reproductiverights.gov—a website to help women find health care and understand their rights.’
Rep. Katherine Clark, a Democrat from Massachusetts, posted on X. “‘They’re wasting no time assaulting freedom.’
‘We know that the Trump administration does not want women to know how to access comprehensive reproductive health care,’ Reproductive Equity Now President Rebecca Hart Holder said.”
The site was launched in 2022 to help women know about their reproductive rights and what affordable healthcare options they have. With the Affordable Care Act, women could access birth control—an act Trump wants to repeal.
This man is pulling the United States of America back into the 18th and 19th century with his conservative anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-women mindset. People in other countries are protesting against Trump while Americans are more concerned about their coffee blends. They should care about what’s truly important: our country should be moving forward in time, not backward.