President Joe Biden will use a speech on Wednesday afternoon to announce plans to roll back hundreds of 'extreme MAGA' laws across the country that he says unfairly target gay and transgender people.
Administration officials say they are causing a mental health crisis and raising the risk of suicide.
The president is due to welcome activists to the White House and will sign an executive order protecting children from what officials see as 'legislative attacks.'
It includes a 'full court press' against the discredited practise of conversion therapy - training programs designed to change sexual identity - which could include issuing consumer warnings against it.
In particular, he will signal an effort to roll back more than 300 anti-LGBTQI laws, which, some of which ban transgender children from medical care and support at schools.
'He will talk about how these bills are worsening the mental health crisis that LGBTQI-plus youth are facing, putting them at greater risk of suicide,' said a senior administration official.
'President Biden always stands up to bullies.
'That's what these extreme MAGA laws and policies do.'
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