Trump promised to protect LGBTQ people. But he hasn’t even recognized Pride Month.

Nearly one year ago, a man walked into a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and killed 49 people — the worst mass shooting in US history. The brutal attack took place during Pride Month, when LGBTQ communities come together in solidarity to celebrate and show the world that it’s okay to be queer.

This year, the Pulse shooting hangs in the thoughts of all Pride celebrations. It’s a now-jarring fact of American history that the worst mass shooting ever targeted LGBTQ people. It has made this Pride Month all the more important — a chance to reflect on what that horrifying shooting nearly a year ago means for the movement.

Yet over at the White House, as far as the Trump administration is concerned, June isn’t Pride Month (although it is National Homeowners Month). Even as events last year showed how necessary Pride still is, the Trump administration has eschewed a tradition started by President Bill Clinton and upheld by President Barack Obama (although not President George W. Bush), and has failed to proclaim June as Pride Month.

This lack of action comes despite Trump’s promises on the campaign trail that he will protect “L, G, B, T … Q” people, even posing with the rainbow flag to signal that he’s a different kind of Republican on these issues. Many people in LGBTQ communities were skeptical of his promises, but they were commitments that Trump made.

By forgoing something as simple as declaring June as Pride Month, Trump has shown how unserious he was about his promises. Orlando demonstrated to the movement and others why celebrating Pride each year was still necessary: Despite all the legal and cultural progress in the past few years, someone still felt emboldened enough to launch a horrific attack in an LGBTQ space. By failing to recognize Pride Month even as the anniversary of such an attack approaches, Trump has offered yet another reminder about the progress left to be made.

Even without presidential proclamations, June has been Pride Month since the 1970s, marking the anniversary of the landmark Stonewall Rebellion in New York City. Through the late 1960s, police regularly raided gay establishments in cities across the country, since innocuous acts like same-sex dancing were sometimes punishable by law. But at Stonewall in June 1969, patrons fought back against the police for several days in an act that has largely become known as the beginning of the modern LGBTQ rights movement.

The movement and Pride Month have continued since then, chipping away at the inequality that LGBTQ people face in the US and across the world.

To get a sense of why Pride Month is still necessary, consider: If the Orlando shooting happened just a few hundred miles north in Alabama or Georgia, it would likely not have been recognized as a hate crime under state law. It’d be recognized as a hate crime under federal law, but states maintain different laws to direct their own law enforcement agencies, which make up the great majority of US police forces.

That’s because many states in the US still don’t protect LGBTQ people under their own hate crime laws. And while the federal government was bound to step in for a shooting as destructive as Orlando’s, other hate crimes go uninvestigated and unprosecuted, since the feds don’t have the resources to go after all anti-LGBTQ hate crimes. (Hate crimes are so poorly tracked by government agencies, in fact, that we don’t even know how many hate crimes there are each year.)

We see this kind of patchwork at the state level with other laws relevant to LGBTQ people. For example, the federal government and most state laws explicitly prohibit discrimination in the workplace, housing, public accommodations (hotels, restaurants, and other places that serve the public), and schools based on race, sex (except public accommodations at the federal level), and other protected groups. But sexual orientation and gender identity aren’t explicitly included in these federal or state laws.

So in most states, it’s legal under local and state law to discriminate against someone based on their sexual orientation or gender identity in the workplace, housing, public accommodations, and schools. So under most states’ laws, an employer can legally fire someone because he’s gay, a landlord can legally evict someone because she’s lesbian, and a hotel manager can legally deny service to someone who’s transgender — for no reason other than the person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

There are also the unique challenges LGBTQ people face in the criminal justice system, LGBTQ youth homelessness, health issues like HIV/AIDS, and the extreme threat of deportation for undocumented immigrants fleeing anti-LGBTQ persecution.

These are the kinds of issues that exemplify why Pride Month is still necessary. Yes, the LGBTQ rights movement had a massive victory with marriage equality. But the reality is there’s still a lot of progress to be made before LGBTQ people have fully equal protection under the law.

The Trump administration has shown how fragile LGBTQ rights gains really are. The administration is largely made up of politicians who have been staunchly anti-LGBTQ for their whole public careers, like Vice President Mike Pence and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. And what the administration has done so far has signaled that it would rather pull the country in a direction less friendly to LGBTQ rights.

For example, last year the Obama administration signed a guidance that asked publicly funded K-12 schools to respect and protect transgender students’ rights, including their ability to use the bathroom and locker room that align with their gender identity. This was at the time taken as a massive victory in the LGBTQ movement.

The Trump administration, however, quickly rescinded the guidance once in office — leaving trans students effectively unprotected by the federal government.

In doing so, the Trump administration played into the bathroom myth that has been increasingly used to subjugate trans rights across the US. The argument, in short, is that if trans people are allowed to use the bathroom for their gender identity, either trans women or men who pose as trans women will sexually assault or harass women in bathrooms. There is zero evidence for this, as I have repeatedly explained. But the myth has been used to bar trans people from using the bathroom for their gender identity, with several states passing laws or considering bills to that effect.

Gavin Grimm, a trans teenager who’s sued his school for access to the right bathroom, best captured why these anti-trans policies are a big problem: “This wasn’t just about bathrooms. It was about the right to exist in public spaces for trans people,” he told me, quoting trans actress Laverne Cox. “Without the access to appropriate bathrooms, there’s so much that you’re limited in doing. If you try to imagine what your day would be like if you had absolutely no restrooms to use other than the home, it would take planning. You would probably find yourself avoiding liquids, probably avoiding eating, maybe [avoiding] going out in public for too long at a time.”

This is what Trump is now letting schools do to trans kids. And several schools have embraced anti-trans policies as a result — that’s one reason why there are now several lawsuits working through state and federal courts in regards to this issue.

The impact Trump will have on LGBTQ rights can only grow from here. Will he appoint a Supreme Court justice who won’t uphold LGBTQ rights? Will he encourage Congress to pass religious freedom measures that effectively allow discrimination against LGBTQ people? Will other actions he takes, such as an increase in deportations, disproportionately hurt LGBTQ people — by, for example, sending immigrants back to countries where they are prosecuted for their identities?

So it’s not just Trump’s failure to proclaim June as Pride Month. It’s also everything else that’s come with it.

The anniversary of the deadliest mass shooting and worst attack on LGBTQ Americans in US history will come and go. But Trump’s retreat from his promise to be an ally is yet another standing reminder for LGBTQ communities about how fragile many of their newly attained rights are — and that nothing can be taken for granted.