As if the closing days of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2024-25 session were not bad enough for transgender people, the Court announced July 3 that it would decide next session whether states can ban transgender females from participating in sports events for women.
The proliferation of anti-LGBTQ bills proposed by state legislatures across the country, which ticked up dramatically in 2021 and has since increased year-over-year, looks different in 2025.
It was through the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic that Chris Gallant discovered he could take charge. While the deadly disease brought New York to a halt, Gallant went to work setting up the country’s largest field hospital.
Advocacy groups have sharply criticized the State Department over its reported plans to remove references to anti-LGBTQ discrimination from its annual human rights reports.
President Donald Trump announced plans to wrest control of the Metropolitan Police Department and said he will dispatch 800 D.C. National Guard troops to patrol the city’s streets.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Monday announced it will ensure “male aliens seeking immigration benefits aren’t coming to the U.S. to participate in women’s sports.”
In a development that could impact all 50 states and the District of Columbia, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on July 1 announced a “nationwide roadway safety initiative” that political observers say could be used to require cities and states to remove LGBTQ supportive rainbow-colored street crosswalks.
Republican U.S. Rep. Bob Onder of Missouri has introduced a bill to “designate the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as the ‘Donald J. Trump Center for the Performing Arts.'”
Washington, D.C.’s Children’s National Hospital announced on July 18 that it will discontinue the gender-transition medical care it has been providing for juvenile patients for about 20 years beginning Aug. 30.
Washington, D.C. police are investigating an incident in which a 43-year-old transgender woman says she was attacked and assaulted by three men around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, June 29, as she was riding her battery powered scooter near the Lincoln Memorial.
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