Bellwether of LGBTQ+ Rights: GLAD Law’s Jennifer Levi sees the way forward
“GLAD Law anticipated that the Trump administration would immediately begin rolling back protections for LGBTQ+ people,” said Jennifer Levi, senior director of transgender and queer rights at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders...
Plaintiffs argue DC Circuit must address whether transgender military ban is based on hostility...
Last week, the plaintiffs in Talbott filed a letter brief with the DC Circuit Court of Appeals responding to yesterday’s Supreme Court order in the related Shilling case and alerting the court to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s open...
Trump admin. settles with Maine over trans-athlete-dispute funding freeze
The Trump administration agreed to settle a legal battle over its efforts to punish Maine Governor Janet Mills for upholding Maine state law by refusing to ban female transgender athletes from school...
Harvard Medical School researcher sues NIH for cutting LGBTQ study grant
A Harvard Medical School associate professor, whose work spans more than 15 years of research related to LGBTQ+ health, is suing NIH for terminating a grant studying the mental health of LGBTQ...
Federal judge in Massachusetts blocks Trump admin. policy denying gender marker changes on passports,...
Massachusetts' US District Judge Julia Kobick granted a preliminary injunction to stop the Trump administration from banning US citizens from changing their gender markers, or choosing an X gender marker, on US...
Maine Governor Janet Mills pushes back against Trump administration lawsuit over transgender athletes
In response to the Trump administration's filing of a lawsuit last week to punish the state of Maine for refusing to ban female transgender athletes from school sports, Maine Governor Janet Mills...
Maine AG sues Trump admin to restore funds frozen over trans athlete dispute
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration seeking "to restore federal agriculture funding caught up in the state's weeks-long fight with the White House over...
RI federal judge holds off blocking Trump ‘gender ideology’ arts grants ban, but calls...
A federal district court judge in Providence, RI, last week at least temporarily denied blocking a Trump administration order "requiring arts organizations to certify they will not promote 'gender ideology' to obtain...
US Rep. Balint (VT) introduces federal Transgender Health Care Access Act
Marking Transgender Day of Visibility earlier this week, Congresswoman Becca Balint of Vermont introduced the Transgender Health Care Access Act, "a federal bill designed to expand access to lifesaving, evidence-based gender-affirming care across...
CT house bill would expand protections for gender-affirming care providers
Connecticut legislators are considering House Bill 7135, currently under public testimony hearing in committee, which would "expand the state’s existing 'shield law' provides statutory protections for providers of abortion and gender-affirming...
