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Trans Watch @transwatch.bsky.social · Mar 8
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Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.
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Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.
www.justsecurity.org
March 8, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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🚨 Texas House Rep. Brent Money has introduced the first total ban on gender affirming care for all trans people in Texas. This is an unequivocal ban affecting all trans people by removing amending the existing ban on trans youth to apply to adults as well.

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89(R) HB 3399 - Introduced version - Bill Text
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February 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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1. Today, the Iowa Legislature shamefully stripped transgender people from the State Civil Rights Act.

It becomes the first state to ever strip any group from a civil rights act.

There were powerful speeches, and huge protets.

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Iowa Legislature Votes to Strip Trans People From Civil Rights Protections
The bill will now go to the Governor for a final signature, and will mark the first state to strip any group from a civil rights act.
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February 28, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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This is the first time in modern US history that a state legislature had repealed existing civil rights protections for a protected class.
February 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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alli.gay
If you work in LGTBQ+ activism spaces, assume you are being surveilled. You are a target.
February 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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‘I want so badly to serve’: Transgender troops and recruits face uncertainty – and déjà vu – amid second military service ban | CNN
Air Force Special Warfare recruit Clay McCallister walked away from his civilian job earlier this month, excited to spend time with his wife and baby girl before shipping out for basic training in Mar...
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February 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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NEW: Fully leaked diplomatic cable directing the implementation of this policy at all US diplomatic and consular posts.
GPT-4o This image is a document from the U.S. Department of State with the subject "Guidance to Visa-Issuing Posts on January 20 Executive Order 14168 on Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government." It outlines an action request and provides a summary and definitions related to sex and gender as per the executive order (E.O.). The document mandates that sex listed on visas must correspond to the biological sex at birth and instructs the use of the term 'sex' rather than 'gender' in federal policies and documents. GPT-4o This image is a continuation of a document from the U.S. Department of State. It details the implementation of changes to ensure government-issued identification documents, like passports and visas, reflect the holder's sex as defined by an executive order. It states that foreign passports should be considered as evidence of the applicant’s sex but may require confirmation if discrepancies are noticed. The document outlines the process for consular officers to follow when there is a discrepancy in sex markers. It also provides action requests for updating public instructions on visa applications, specifying the requirement to select sex at birth. Existing U.S. visas that do not comply with this guidance remain valid until expiration. GPT-4o This image is the final part of a document from the U.S. Department of State regarding guidance on an executive order about recognizing sex on government-issued documents. It explains that existing visas remain valid until expiration despite sex marker differences. The document mentions forthcoming updates to FAM guidance and outlines talking points for interacting with applicants. It reaffirms the policy to list sex, not gender identity, on U.S. visas. Additional guidance can be accessed via specified web resources. It includes contact emails for media and congressional inquiries, and is signed by various personnel involved in drafting, clearing, approving, and releasing the document.
February 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones.

+ similar in the Department of the Interior
msjpauly.bsky.social Madison Pauly @msjpauly.bsky.social · Feb 24
LGBTQ federal workers say they're terrified they're about to be fired for their gender identity, sexual orientation, or past efforts to support other queer and trans employees—in other words, a second Lavender Scare.

Honored to have their trust with this story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
LGBTQ federal workers brace for a McCarthyist purge
"They’re not asking people ‘Are you gay? Are you lesbian?’ They’re asking, ‘Who is participating in DEI?'"
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February 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Project 2025 Tracker
Track the progress on Project 2025
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February 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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ErinReed [Feb 20 -- A Montana judge for the second time blocked a state law passed by the legislature seeking to define sex according to chromosomal biology, calling it "intellectually and morally indefensible."

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"Intellectually and Morally Indefensible": Montana Court Blocks Trans-Exclusionary Law Defining Sex
“It is the right decision, not only for us Plaintiffs but for every Montanan’s right to privacy.”
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February 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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In the challenge to the State Department's anti-trans/anti-nonbinary passport policy, plaintiffs filed their preliminary injunction motion on Tuesday.

The hearing on the PI request will take place at 1 p.m. March 14 in Boston before Judge Julia Kobick, a Biden appointee.
I. PRELIMINARY STATEMENT This Motion seeks to prevent irreparable injury inflicted by the federal government’s abrupt, discriminatory, and dangerous change in policy denying usable passports to transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people. For years, the government issued passports to Americans reflecting a sex designation aligning with their gender identity, including an X sex designation upon request. That policy not only provided accurate passports, it prevented harms such as people being outed as transgender or nonbinary against their will every time they used their passport— including to domestic authorities and hostile foreign authorities. Defendants abruptly instituted a new policy implementing an Executive Order issued on the first day of the Trump Administration, “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” (the “EO”). The State Department is already enforcing the EO’s edict by issuing passports listing only either female or male sex designations, determined by whether a person “belong[ed], at conception” or at birth “to the sex that produces” either “the large” or “the small reproductive cell.” EO 14168, 90 Fed. Reg. 8615, 8615 (Jan. 20, 2025). 1 Defendants’ new policy seeks to deny the existence of transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people. And it is causing grave, immediate harm. Plaintiffs are entitled to a stay of agency action under the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”) and a preliminary injunction.
February 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Sharing bc I have a particular grudge against Rowling
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J.K. Rowling | GLAAD
12.28.2024—Made the false and baseless claim that transgender youth do not exist. In a post on X she writes, "There are no trans kids. No child is 'born in the wrong body'. There are only adults like ...
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February 20, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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New filing: "State of Washington v. Department of Justice (Trump EO Gender Affirming Care Ban <19)"
Doc #167-1: NOTICE of Compliance re 158 Order on Motion for Temporary Restraining Order,, by All Defendants. (Attachments:…

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The entry's text: NOTICE of Compliance re 158 Order on Motion for Temporary Restraining Order,, by All Defendants. (Attachments: # 1 Copy of Written Notice)(Andrapalliyal, Vinita) (Entered: 02/19/2025) Thumbnail of page 1 of the PDF linked above. Thumbnail of page 2 of the PDF linked above.
February 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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They're going after the LGB too. We told you so.

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Trump’s Kennedy Center Cancels Pride Concert That Would Have Featured Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington - Washingtonian
No explanation was given, the chorus says: "We regret that this opportunity has been taken away."
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February 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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New filing: "State of Washington v. Department of Justice (Trump EO Gender Affirming Care Ban <19)"
Doc #168: Joint Status Report

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State of Washington v. Trump, 2:25-cv-00244 - CourtListener.com
Docket for State of Washington v. Trump, 2:25-cv-00244 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
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February 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.

You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.

My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.

www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans
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February 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/02/equa...
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission drops cases of anti-trans harassment - LGBTQ Nation
“Biology is not bigotry," claimed the new acting head of the agency. Its actions indicate it's okay with transphobic harassment.
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February 19, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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The National Park Service eliminated references to transgender people from its Stonewall National Monument website on Thursday, which now only refers to those who are lesbian, gay and bisexual.
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Transgender references removed from Stonewall National Monument website
The monument honors the Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969, in New York City's Greenwich Village.
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February 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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BREAKING: On Friday, Defense Sec. Hegseth ordered an immediate "pause" on trans medical care, processing of trans military recruits. DOJ didn't inform the court until Monday, despite having been ordered to “immediately notify“ the plaintiffs and court of any change. www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-d...
MEMORANDUM FOR SENIOR PENTAGON LEADERSHIP COMMANDERS OF THE COMBATANT COMMANDS DEFENSE AGENCY AND DOD FIELD ACTIVITY DIRECTORS SUBJECT: Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness The Department of Defense's (DoD) mission requires Service members to abide by strict mental and physical standards. The lethality, readiness, and warfighting capability of our Force depends on Service members meeting those standards. The Department must ensure it is building "One Force" without subgroups defined by anything other than ability or mission adherence. Efforts to split our troops along lines of identity weaken our Force and make us vulnerable. Such efforts must not be tolerated or accommodated. As the President clearly stated in Executive Order 14183, "Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness," January 27, 2025: "Expressing a false 'gender identity' divergent from an individual's sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for Military Service." Effective immediately, all new accessions for individuals with a history of gender dysphoria are paused, and all unscheduled, scheduled, or planned medical procedures associated with affirming or facilitating a gender transition for Service members are paused.' Individuals with gender dysphoria have volunteered to serve our country and will be treated with dignity and respect. The Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness is authorized and delegated the authority to provide additional policy and implementation guidance outside of the normal DoD issuance process, including guidance regarding service by Service members with a current diagnosis or history of gender dysphoria, to implement this direction.
February 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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The GA State Senate voted to ban coverage of health care for trans adults under the State Health Plan. It now heads to the State House. These folks have been lying and finally took their masks off. This was never just about *the kids.* This is a cruel systematic political on transgender people.
February 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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"stereotypes"
juddlegum.bsky.social Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Feb 10
2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.

This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
Anti-Racism Racism Allyship Bias DEI Diversity Diverse Confirmation Bias Equity Equitableness Feminism Gender Gender Identity Inclusion Inclusive All-Inclusive Inclusivity Injustice Intersectionality Prejudice Privilege Racial Identity Sexuality Stereotypes Pronouns Transgender Equality
February 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Social Security Administration Stops Issuing Sex Marker Changes After Trump Order
The agency said it would no longer process "changes to the sex field” in the SSA database.
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February 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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BREAKING: DOJ sends a letter to SCOTUS regarding Skrmetti, the trans care care, asserting, first, that, “The Department has now determined that SB1 does not deny equal protection on account of sex or any other characteristic,” but, second, adding that the court should still decide the current case.
Dear Mr. Harris: This case concerns the constitutionality of Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB1), which prohibits healthcare providers from "[p)rescribing, administering, or dispensing any puberty blocker or hor-mone" if that treatment is provided "for the purpose" of "[e]nabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex" or "[t)reating purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor's sex and asserted identity. " Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 68-33-102(5)(B), 68-33-103(a)(1). Last year, the United States filed briefs contending that SB 1 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The United States advanced the same position at oral argument. Following the change in Administration, the Department of Justice has reconsidered the United States' position in this case. The purpose of this letter is to notify the Court that the government's previously stated views no longer represent the United States' position. This case began as a suit by private plaintiffs challenging the constitutionality of SB1. After the private plaintiffs filed suit, the United States intervened under 42 U.S.C. 2000h-2 and filed its own complaint challenging the constitutionality of SB1. Section 2000h-2 authorizes intervention ey the nited Sises in an ittie oing creer licen the thial o asuas protectionl public importance." 42 U.S.C. 2000h-2. The Department has now determined that SB1 does not deny equal protection on account of sex or any other characteristic. Accordingly, the new Administration would not have intervened to challenge SB1—let alone sought this Court's review of the court of appeals' decision reversing the preliminary injunction against SB1. Nevertheless, the United States believes that the confluence of several factors counsels against seeking to dismiss its case in this Court. The Court's prompt resolution of the question presented will bear on many cases pending in the lower courts. Since granting cert…
February 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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New filing: "PFLAG v. Trump (transition care EO)"
Doc #35: Emergency MOTION for Temporary Restraining Order by Bruce Boe, Cameron Coe, by and through their parent and next friend Claire Coe, Claire Coe, Robert Roe, by and…

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The entry's text: Emergency MOTION for Temporary Restraining Order by Bruce Boe, Cameron Coe, by and through their parent and next friend Claire Coe, Claire Coe, Robert Roe, by and through his parent and next friend Rachel Roe, Rachel Roe, PFLAG, Inc., B.G. a/k/a W.G., by and through her parent and next friend Kristen Chapman, Kristen Chapman, Lawrence Loe, Dylan Doe, American Association of Physicians for Human Rights, Inc. d/b/a GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality, Gabe Goe, by and through his parent and next friend George Goe, George Goe, Bella Boe, by and through her parent and next friend Bruce Boe (Attachments: # 1 Memorandum in Support, # 2 Proposed Order, # 3 Exhibit List, # 4 Exhibit A - Omar Gonzalez-Pagan Declaration, # 5 Exhibit A-1 - HRSA Notice, # 6 Exhibit A-2 - Childrens National Statement, # 7 Exhibit A-3 - Childrens Hospital VCU Statement, # 8 Exhibit A-4 - UVA Health Statement, # 9 Exhibit A-5 - Denver Health Statement, # 10 Exhibit A-6 - VA AG Miyares Letter, # 11 Exhibit A-7 - White House Press Release, # 12 Exhibit B - GLMA Alex Sheldon Declaration, # 13 Exhibit C - Dr. Jeffrey Birnbaum Declaration, # 14 Exhibit D - PFLAG Brian K. Bond Declaration, # 15 Exhibit E - Bruce Boe Declaration, # 16 Exhibit F - Claire Coe Declaration, # 17 Exhibit G - Kristen Chapman Declaration, # 18 Exhibit H - George Goe Declaration, # 19 Exhibit I - Rachel Roe Declaration, # 20 Exhibit J - Lawrence Loe Declaration, # 21 Exhibit K - Dylan Doe Declaration, # 22 Exhibit L - Kyle Koe Declaration, # 23 Exhibit M - E.M. Declaration, # 24 Exhibit N - M.V. Declaration, # 25 Exhibit O - Jane Doe 1 Declaration, # 26 Exhibit P - Jane Doe 2 Declaration, # 27 Exhibit Q - Jane Doe 3 Declaration)(Cohen, Zachary) (Entered: 02/05/2025) Thumbnail of page 1 of the PDF linked above. Thumbnail of page 2 of the PDF linked above. Thumbnail of page 3 of the PDF linked above.
February 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM