Trans National Guard member sues Trump admin over bathroom ban
LeAnne Withrow of the Illinois National Guard says the policy has forced her to dehydrate herself at work.
November 20, 2025
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Trans inmate sues over Trump's 'two sexes' order
The order will mean the inmate, identified under the pseudonym Maria Moe, will be transferred to a men's prison, putting her in immediate danger, the lawsuit says.
January 27, 2025
Ken Paxton Sues to Let Doctors Turn Away Trans People
The Texas attorney general's latest anti-Obama lawsuit claims that trans-affirming health care violates the religious freedom of doctors.
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August 24, 2016
Arkansas sued over new restrictions on driver's license gender markers
Transgender, nonbinary, and intersex residents are suing over a new policy that makes it nearly impossible to change their gender marker and bans the use of a gender-neutral one.
May 2, 2024
Lawsuit challenges EEOC's failure to investigate anti-transgender discrimination
"The Trump-Vance administration’s unlawful effort to erase protections for transgender people is cruel, and a violation of the law and the Constitution," says Democracy Forward President and CEO Skye Perryman.
July 29, 2025
Obama's Huge Title IX Gamble
The Justice Department had good intentions in linking Title IX with transgender equality, but our recent judicial setback proves we need laws that unequivocably address our rights.
August 30, 2016
Texas Atty General Fighting to Allow Bias Against LGBTQ Parents
Ken Paxton and a Texas Catholic archdiocese want foster and adoption agencies to be able to turn away LGBTQ people and still receive federal funds.
November 15, 2019
Court blocks termination of LGBTQ-related NIH health research grants
A federal court in Maryland found the termination discriminatory and unconstitutional.
August 1, 2025
Federal prison inmates can get gender-affirming care as court blocks Trump order
In March, two trans men and one trans woman serving sentences in facilities in New Jersey, Minnesota, and Florida filed a class action lawsuit against the Trump administration and the Bureau of Prisons.
June 3, 2025
LGBTQ Orgs, Others Sue Over Health Care 'License to Discriminate' Rule
The new federal rule stands to empower discrimination against trans people, PrEP users, and more, the plaintiffs said.
May 28, 2019
Janet Napolitano: Law Must Serve the Marginalized
With LGBT people, immigrants, and many others under attack, lawyers who serve their interests are needed more than ever, the University of California president tells a legal confab.
September 24, 2017
20 GOP Attorneys General Blast Biden's LGBTQ+ Policies
Republican state AG's, led by Tennessee's Herbert Slatery, are objecting to recent guidance on avoiding anti-LGBTQ+ and specifically anti-trans discrimination.
July 9, 2021
Court Orders State Dept. to Reconsider Passport for Intersex Vet
Dana Zzyym wants a passport with an X gender marker, which the State Department has refused to issue during a five-year court battle.
May 13, 2020
Harvard doctors sue Trump administration over censoring LGBTQ+ terms
“Good doctors serve and advocate for their patients, whoever they are,” one of the doctors said in a statement. “We cannot uphold an oath to Do No Harm if our training and research are politicized.”
March 15, 2025
Court strikes down last barrier to military service by people living with HIV
A U.S. district judge ruled that the U.S. military cannot ban enlistment by those who are HIV-positive but asymptomatic with an undetectable viral load.
August 21, 2024
Judge expands block on Donald Trump's anti-trans, anti-nonbinary passport policy
U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick had previously blocked the policy only for those who sued, but now it will cover almost all trans and nonbinary passport applicants.
June 17, 2025
Judge won't lift her block on Trump admin's anti-trans, anti-nonbinary passport policy
The Justice Department had asked U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick to lift her injunction in light of the Supreme Court's ruling allowing states to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
July 11, 2025
Court sides with ACLU and queer performers over federal trans funding restrictions
As in many authoritarian campaigns, art has been recognized as a vital form of resistance — but bad actors have sought to curtail it accordingly.
September 23, 2025
Federal judge rules in favor of public schools in 16 states that refused to comply with Trump's trans ban
The judge will block the Trump administration's attempt to restrict funding for sex education from schools that teach it in an inclusive way.
October 21, 2025
Lawsuit challenges Trump's 'two genders' passport policy
The State Department, acting on a presidential executive order, has ended the use of a third-gender marker on passports and won't allow gender changes on them.
February 12, 2025
Appeals court mulls upholding ruling that struck down Pentagon’s HIV enlistment ban
Lambda Legal asked a three-judge panel in Virginia to allow people with an HIV diagnosis to serve in the U.S. military.
December 11, 2025