evidence: This assault on civil rights is one plank of Project 2025, a transition plan spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation — a right-wing think tank — for the next Republican president. Trump hasn’t officially co-signed, but many of his associates are authors. [...] LGBTQ issues: Project 2025 seeks to ramp up the assault on LGBTQ rights and wipe out certain federal protections for queer Americans. This entails, as the policy agenda puts it, ending the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ "foray into woke transgender activism" by scrubbing the acknowledgment of gender and sexual identity from "every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists," criminalizing classroom instruction on LGBTQ experiences, and eroding vital medical coverage for transgender Americans. [...] Civil rights: As mentioned above, Project 2025 calls for shifting the attention of the U.S. Department of Justice to quashing the supposed menace of "anti-white racism" by abolishing affirmative action policies. The policy agenda also calls for the next Republican administration to use the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division to "prosecute all state and local governments, institutions of higher education, corporations, and any other private employers" with affirmative action or DEI policies. And it demands that "voter registration fraud and unlawful ballot correction" be investigated by the DOJ’s Criminal Division instead of by its Civil Rights Division.