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More than 100 members of Congress have written to Attorney General Pam Bondi about the situation, while 11 community organizations are suing over the loss of a conflict resolution service.
“Transgender people deserve government officials who will lift them up, not attack them simply because of who they are,” the members of Congress wrote.
With Trump's destruction of the White House East Wing to build a ballroom, "his priorities couldn’t be any more out of whack," Pocan said Friday on CNN.
Republicans are stripping those who served their country of medical care.
Under Trump, EEOC Acting Chair Andrea Lucas has deprioritized or scrapped complaints of discrimination against transgender and nonbinary people.
"We are failing our most vulnerable children on this issue," Davids said.
Alina Habba, the former personal attorney for Donald Trump, brought federal criminal charges against New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver.
Alabama GOP Rep. Barry Moore wants to enshrine discrimination against transgender people into federal law.
Republicans are advancing a "cruel reconciliation bill," Equality Caucus Chair Mark Takano says.
U.S. Rep. Mark Takano and others sent a pointed letter to VA Secretary Doug Collins.
The U.S. government is turning its back on those who served, retired Army Staff Sgt. Alleria Stanley told The Advocate.
Trans, nonbinary, and intersex people deserve passports that reflect their identity, the representatives say.
“I won’t sit and watch him lie,” Vermont Democratic Congresswoman Becca Balint said.
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.
Instead of consoling a grieving nation, the president has tried to score political points by falsely blaming diversity efforts for the tragedy.
“They’re going to try and do things in committees to tack on horrible riders to target our community, and we are planning to meet these attacks with strength and strategy,” he said.
Gaetz contributed to the baseless right-wing buzz around the school shooting in Pocan's district.
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene reportedly went so far as to threaten a "physical altercation" if trans women were allowed to use the women's restroom.
“I think people don’t understand the emotional and psychological toll it takes on us as openly gay members of Congress that we are in those committee hearings when people are saying horrible things about us,” Balint says.
That's part of a bill passed by the U.S. House Thursday, seeking to supersede the "all-comers" policies approved by the Supreme Court in 2010. Democrats, including Equality Caucus Chair Mark Pocan, are outraged.
The Congressional Equality Caucus is calling out the "outrageous" bill going to vote in the House that would forcibly out transgender students to their guardians.
