Federal HR office sets deadline for government-wide purge of transgender and nonbinary inclusion
The Office of Personnel Management has become the enforcement arm of Trump’s anti-LGBTQ+ agenda.
July 18, 2025
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OPM Director Delivers Commencement Address
The administrator offered advice to graduates and saluted Frank Kameny, the pioneering gay rights campaigner who died last year.
May 22, 2012
Federal Agency Reviewing Trans-Exclusive Insurance Policies
The Office of Personnel Management is reviewing the insurance policies currently offered to agency employees, evaluating whether or not to include transition-related care on future plans.
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January 15, 2014
How the Trump administration is greenlighting discrimination against LGBTQ+ federal employees
Opinion: By mandating “robust” protection of religious expression, the Trump administration opens the door to increased discrimination against LGBTQ+ federal employees, writes Brad Sears.
August 1, 2025
Feds Change Rules, Offer Benefits for Kids of Domestic Partners
The new rule applies to children of federal employees who are in same-sex domestic partnerships but live in states where marriage is not an option.
November 6, 2013
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
First Lady Attends Berry's Swearing In
John Berry was officially sworn in Thursday as director of the Office of Personnel Management at an event attended by First Lady Michelle Obama and a who's who of Washington LGBTs.
April 23, 2009
Democratic congressmen: Federal personnel office can't discriminate against trans Americans
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.
February 5, 2025
Senate Confirms Lesbian as Judge of U.S. Court of Federal Claims
The Senate confirmed Elaine Kaplan, the acting director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, as a judge by a vote of 64-35.
September 17, 2013
The John Berry Confirmation Train Begins
John Berry, an openly gay man who has been nominated by President Barack Obama to head the Office of Personnel Management, encountered a friendly confirmation hearing Thursday.
March 27, 2009
History in the Making
In the 1950s, Frank Kameny was fired from his job in the Army Map Service for "sexual perversion." Now he's watching an openly gay man run the very office once responsible for scrubbing gays from the government.
April 3, 2009
Trump’s Project 2025 White House orders mass firings of DEI employees across federal government
“These programs divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination,” a policy memo read in part.
January 22, 2025
