Paul Feig Donates $300,000 to Queer Youth Organizations as LGBTQ Rights Are Attacked Under Trump: ‘I Can’t Sit Idly By’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Paul Feig is opening up his checkbook for the LGBTQ community. The “A Simple Favor” and “Bridesmaids” director and his wife Laurie have donated $300,000 to three queer youth advocacy and support organizations: The Trevor Project, Translifeline.org and It Gets Better. “In recent weeks we have witnessed the dismantling of crucial protections for the health and safety of the LGBTQ+ community and, particularly, the transgender community,” Feig tells me exclusively. “I can’t sit idly by and watch as my friends, colleagues and the LGBTQ+ community as a whole — our fellow citizens — are stripped of their rights.

We should all do whatever is within our power and our means to ensure that every member of the LGBTQ+ gets the support and protections to which they are entitled.

I hope that these contributions will help the teams at The Trevor Project, Translifeline.org and It Gets Better to keep doing the life-saving work they do every day.” The donations come after it was reported that the Trump administration is ordering the removal of transgender troops from the U.S.

military. One of Trump’s first executive order stated that the government only recognizes two sexes, male and female, and has removed references to trans people and gender-affirming care from websites and databases.