According to Homer,Sisyphus was one of the wisest and most prudent of mortals. But Zeus got mad at him and had him taken to the Underworld and forced to endure a pointless and excruciating punishment.

Every day, straining and sweating, he would push a massive boulder up a mountain, whereupon, almost reaching the top, the boulder would immediately roll back down the hill in a matter of moments.

Sisyphus would then have to walk back down the mountain and start this task over again.

Sisyphus was forced to endure this pointless task until the end of existence.

Just as with Sisyphus who has to walk down the mountain to retrieve the rock and has time to reflect on the absurdities of life, those who have worked for GLBT rights are like Sisyphus.

Each time their efforts get them to the point where that for which they fought is at hand, some prejudice, whether based on religion, politics, or personal belief, rises up to find a way to prevent future progress and erode that of the past.

And those who fight must walk back to the beginning, but while doing so, unlike Sisyphus who has no chance for an alternate ending, they use the time on their walk, to evaluate what has happened and the best way to address the situation to get a better and more permanent outcome.

Without hope it would be depressingly futile; with hope there is hope. 

By the end of this year, 2019, the Trump administration will have.

• Proposed allowing federal contractors to discriminate against GLBT workers by broadening exemptions for religious organizations receiving federal government contracts to include all organizations and businesses that could possibly cite a religious mission behind its work.
• Supported firing GLBT workers in the private sector by removing protections               against   discrimination under Title VII by filing amicus briefs asking the court to rule against a reading of Title VII’s prohibition against sex discrimination that includes GLBT.
• Proposed cuts to the fight to end the global HIV/AIDS Epidemic in spite of Trump saying in this year’s State of the Union Address that he pledged to end new HIV infections by 2030. The administration proposed cutting $1.3 billion from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), changing Medicaid funding from unlimited federal matching to a block grant, and giving states more flexibility to change eligibility requirements and increase the burden of costs to recipients.
•  Ended federal funding of research working on HIV therapies while scientists continue to make breakthroughs to help combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This action could delay a cure. The Trump administration is standing in the way of that progress, however, despite claiming to want to end new infections. Last year stopped scientists employed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) acquiring new human fetal tissue for experiments, which led to a shutdown of HIV/AIDS research.
• Announced rule ceasing data collection on GLBT Foster Youth which began under      Obama. This eliminates identifying those youth and being able to capture the disparity between non-GLBT youth and GLBT youth which would help states and tribes understand what their experiences are and be able to devise implement and deploy best practices.
• Pushed for Title IX to be used to discriminate against Trans students. The Trump administration does not believe that Title IX’s protections against sex discrimination are inclusive of Trans people. The administration submitted a complaint in the investigation of Connecticut’s trans-inclusive high school athletics policy, through the conservative Christian legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom.
• Successfully pushed for Trans Military Ban to go into effect that bans most transgender individuals from serving in the military. The Trump administration want to force out troops who require hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or gender-affirming surgeries, kick out those “who can’t or won’t serve in their birth genders,” and reject recruits who are experiencing gender dysphoria, taking hormones, or seek to transition.
• Proposed allowing shelters to discriminate against Trans People, with Ben Carson, proposing to allow even those shelters receiving federal funding to refuse to offer services based on an individual’s gender identity. At a meeting at HUD’s San Francisco office, Carson referred to Trans women as “big, hairy men”, that respecting trans rights was granting “special rights,” and that while Trans people “should get the same rights as everyone else…they don’t get to change things for everybody else.”
• Formed the “Commission on Unalienable Rights” to question what counts as “Human Rights”. It was announced by Mike Pompeo, and will be headed by Mary Ann Glendon who served as ambassador to the Vatican and has been a vocal opponent of marriage equality.
• Proposed an Anti-GLBT adoption rule to allow foster care and adoption agencies to discriminate against GLBT families on religious grounds. According to the White House, “The federal government should not be in the business of forcing child welfare providers to choose between helping children and their faith.” At an HHS event in honor of National Adoption Month, Mike Pence said he “couldn’t be more proud that, at President Trump’s direction, and with the strong support of leaders across foster care, adoption, and our faith communities, we’ve taken decisive action.”
• Rolled back GLBT health care protections by removing protections against discrimination in the health care system, giving health care workers greater ability to refuse serviced based on religious grounds, and stripping the Affordable Care Act of its transgender health protections while not prohibiting such discrimination being exercised by those receiving federal grants,
• Opposed the Equality Act which would have added sexual orientation and gender identity to preexisting federal civil rights law. The House passed it; the senate is sitting on it.
•  Proposed final regulations allowing religious schools to ignore nondiscrimination standards set by accrediting agencies.
• And in less obvious actions, the Trump Administration would not allow embassies to fly the Pride Flag at embassies, unless they, as many did, found a way to fly it in accordance with the actual wording of the directive, and did not mention the GLBT Community in his AIDS Day proclamation.

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In the majority of these actions preferential treatment, known commonly as “special rights”, is given to religion to overrule civil law to which all citizens are held, based on claimed firmly held religious beliefs, even if they are personal and not part of any tenet of an established religion.

The recognition of the rights of GLBT people was a long fight that is ongoing. Having to win back that which you finally got because they are taken away to please those the president, who was elected to serve all people, chooses, instead, to only recognized those who supported him at the cost of the rest.

GLBT people of a certain age know what it is like living as a second class citizen, what it took to change that, and to varying degrees, depending on location, how nice it is to be a full citizen.

We won’t go back.