Status: 🔴 Conservative activist who co-founded The Heritage Foundation in 1973, the think tank that later built Project 2025
Paul Weyrich was a conservative activist who co-founded The Heritage Foundation in 1973, alongside other conservative organizers. Heritage grew into one of the most influential institutions of the American right and, decades later, became the architect of the anti-trans agenda through Project 2025 and its model-legislation network.
Weyrich died in 2008. The Heritage Foundation he helped create continues to drive federal and state attacks on transgender people.