Trump's Team Is All Tied Up With Anti-Gay Pseudoscience

DURING THE PRESIDENTIAL campaign, President-elect Donald Trump was generous with his bigotry. But gay and lesbian Americans seemed largely to escape his scapegoating, despite the Republican Party’s entrenched homophobia. “The LGBT community, the gay community, the lesbian community—they are so much in favor of what I’ve been saying,” Trump said at a June campaign rally in Atlanta.

But if Trump was supposed to be the first gay-friendly GOPer in the White House, he has a funny way of showing it. Even setting aside vice president-elect Mike Pence’s support for homophobic policies as governor of Indiana, Trump has assembled a transition team and cabinet deeply tied to one of the most pernicious anti-gay groups around. The Family Research Council isn’t content to oppose homosexuality on religious grounds; instead, it uses pseudoscience to give its homophobia a flimsy veneer of objectivity. And it could wind up shaping the incoming president’s policies....
https://www.wired.com/2016/11/trumps-transition-team-tied-anti-gay-pseudoscience/