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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LeAnne Withrow of the Illinois National Guard says the policy has forced her to dehydrate herself at work.
The policy is “terribly demeaning and 100 percent illegal,” Danielle Mittereder's lawyer Jonathan Puth says.
The Democrat is not letting the Republican forget the outrageous claim she made about LGBTQ+ people during a statewide debate in the Virginia governor's race.
Anna Lange must go to trial to prove her employer discriminated against her by excluding coverage for gender transition.
"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.
“It’s deeply troubling to see someone who has benefited from civil rights protections turn around and try to strip them from others,” Rep. Ritchie Torres said.
Sotomayor said the ruling will invite "untold harm to transgender children and the parents and families who love them."
Under Trump, EEOC Acting Chair Andrea Lucas has deprioritized or scrapped complaints of discrimination against transgender and nonbinary people.
Donald Trump claimed on the campaign trail that he had "nothing to do" with Project 2025 — but now that he's in office, he's implementing it.
According to the U.S. Supreme Court, discriminating against transgender people at work is illegal. The Trump administration is testing the ruling.
U.S. Reps. Mark Takano, Jamie Raskin, and Gerry Connolly sent a strongly worded letter to the Office of Personnel Management, saying that implementing Trump's "two sexes" executive order would violate the Constitution and Supreme Court precedent.
Acting Chair Andrea Lucas says she will fight so-called gender ideology.
Some effects of the order are yet to be known, but most of its impacts will be negative, the Williams Institute reports.
The rules were in place to protect Americans from discrimination for nearly 60 years.
Amid the trauma and disappointment of the election results, we take a look at queer resistance over the past century
Some of Donald Trump’s strongest supporters are celebrating that the far-right agenda will see the light of day.
David Nation was the only applicant to fill a vacant seat on the Waynesville Village Council but was turned away, ostensibly for his activism on LGBTQ+ rights and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
It’s a big victory for trans rights.
Companies need to do better at stopping anti-LGBTQ+ job discrimination — which the Supreme Court has ruled illegal, the think tank notes.
The court’s LGBTQ+ decisions have given our community cause for celebration as well as cause for despair. Here’s a look back at these rulings.
Far-right activists have put together a series of directives for the next conservative president. Here's what it would mean to the LGBTQ+ community.