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Karoline Leavitt: Trump wants 'less LGBTQ graduate majors' from Harvard

The White House Press Secretary justified cutting funds to Harvard by saying Trump would rather give them to trade schools, not "LGBTQ graduate majors."

Project 2025 vowed to roll back LGBTQ+ rights. Here's everything Trump has done so far

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.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills hits back after Trump sues state for transgender sports policies

The Trump Administration is suing Maine for allowing trans girls to participate in girls sports, but Gov. Mills says this "has never been about the protection of women and girls."

Restraining orders block federal funding freeze

The freeze had targeted a wide swath of federal funds, including those allegedly promoting "woke gender ideology."

Domestic violence nonprofits rocked by Trump funding freeze

Gender-based violence organizations have begun to self-edit their public-facing media out of fear they will lose federal grants essential to the provision of life-saving services.

Trump admin freezes federal funds to U of Pennsylvania over transgender athletes

University officials said they are complying with all NCAA policies, which now bar trans women from women's sports.

Maine sues Trump administration for funding freeze over policy on transgender student athletes

Maine's attorney general says the Trump administration is withholding funds crucial for feeding school children and adults with disabilities.

Trump's foreign aid freeze will stop AIDS funding under PEPFAR — a program that's saved millions

Unless there is a waiver, this will stop lifesaving treatment for millions of people in developing countries.

Trump administration takes away life-saving HIV prevention medications from vulnerable LGBTQ+ people worldwide

According to a State Department memo, PrEP can only be dispensed to “pregnant and breastfeeding women” through PEPFAR.

Trump guts $258 million in funding for HIV vaccine research

“For HIV vaccine design and development, we've begun to see light at the end of the tunnel after many years of research,” Dennis Burton, an immunology professor at Scripps Research, said.

15 Democratic state AGs stand by gender-affirming care

"Federal funding to institutions that provide gender-affirming care continues to be available, irrespective of President Trump’s recent Executive Order," the attorneys general say.

N.Y. attorney general: stopping care for trans youth will violate state law

AG Letitia James's letter comes after a hospital in the state canceled appointments for young people planning to receive puberty blockers.

D.C. Court Freezes LGBTQ+ Nonprofit Casa Ruby’s Bank Accounts

Ruby Corado, the founder of Casa Ruby, said she is not a criminal as a court sided with D.C.'s attorney general and froze the LGBTQ+ nonprofit's financial accounts.

Project 2025 architect confirmed by the Senate to lead Office of Management and Budget

Donald Trump previously said he knew nothing about the far-right plan, but now he’s poised to implement much of it by placing loyalists like Russell Vought in key positions.

Here are all of Trump's executive orders that have targeted transgender people — so far

He's going after diversity programs, transgender students, and more with executive orders that will most definitely be contested in court.

Trump’s new White House Press Secretary targets transgender people in first briefing

Karoline Leavitt said that “sanity has been restored” because it only recognizes a gender binary.

Federal judge orders restoration of health agency web pages

Pages devoted to HIV and AIDS, assisted reproductive technologies, and youth health risks had disappeared from government websites due to Donald Trump's "gender ideology" order.

Civil rights groups sue Trump over executive orders targeting DEI & transgender people

President Trump, we will see you in court again, and we will beat you again,” Lambda Legal CEO Kevin Jennings said.

Activists stack coffins in front of State Department to protest PEPFAR cuts (in photos)

The gutting of the global HIV-fighting program could bring back "the darkest days of the AIDS epidemic," says the Human Rights Campaign's Matt Rose.

This cancer researcher was studying LGBTQ+ people. Her work is now in limbo

A researcher at the George Washington Cancer Center says Trump could erase years of scientific work.

Oh, the irony if Pete Buttigieg brings America back from the brink in 2028

Opinion: Pete Buttigieg opted out of a U.S. Senate run, which means he’s gunning for the presidency in 2028, writes John Casey.