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With the Supreme Court mostly siding with the administration, the real action on US transgender rights has moved to the lower courts — injunctions over prison healthcare and a class action over who gets to see trans kids' medical records.
A divided D.C. Circuit panel ruled on the first day of Pride Month that the Pentagon's ban on transgender service likely violates equal protection — and blocked the removal of the troops who sued.
The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights launched a Title IX investigation on May 4 into Smith's admissions policy, which has welcomed transgender women since 2015. The complaint was filed by a conservative legal group after the college honored Adm. Rachel Levine.
The Justice Department announced on May 1 that it is investigating whether dozens of Illinois public school districts taught what it calls 'sexual orientation and gender ideology' content without parental opt-outs. Governor JB Pritzker called it a 'sham investigation.'
A preliminary injunction from a federal magistrate in Oregon directly conflicts with Trump's Day One executive order on prison housing — and could become a blueprint for state-level challenges.
The proposed rule, published April 28, replaces every reference to gender identity with a definition of sex pulled directly from Trump's executive order — and gives shelter operators new authority to demand 'evidence' of someone's sex.
A federal judge in Oregon permanently blocked the December 2025 HHS declaration that shut down gender-affirming care programs nationwide, ruling that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had no authority to unilaterally rewrite medical standards of care.
A divided D.C. Circuit panel vacated the injunction that had kept incarcerated trans women in women's facilities, handing the Trump administration a significant win on one of its first-day executive orders.
The White House's 2027 budget request proposes a $166 million counterterrorism increase and a new NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center tasked with targeting 'extremism' on gender, race, and opposition to 'traditional American views.'
From the trans military ban to erasing federal protections for 100,000 workers, here's a factual accounting of what's changed for LGBTQ+ Americans since January 2025 — and where things stand now.
