The Trump administration has withheld $1.25 million in congressionally appropriated funds from 20 organizations focused on projects related to LGBTQ and other underrepresented groups in a move that may violate federal law, according to multiple sources.
The Trump-Vance administration has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to allow it to implement a policy that bans the State Department from issuing passports with “X” gender markers.
On Sept. 10, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a transgender boy may use the boy’s bathroom in a South Carolina public high school while pursuing a challenge to a state law that requires students to use the bathrooms corresponding to their sex assigned at birth.
The Congressional Equality Caucus has called upon the State Department to once again include LGBTQ and intersex people in their annual human rights report.
The State Department on Sept. 4 announced PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) will distribute a “breakthrough” drug in countries with high HIV prevalence rates.
A published report indicates the Trump-Vance administration plans to not fully fund PEPFAR in the upcoming fiscal year.
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.
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