Legal Challenges to President Trump’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Executive Orders

Since taking office, President Trump has issued a series of executive orders targeting vulnerable communities, including LGBTQ+ people and their loved ones. Some of the directives will create immediate, tremendous harm, while others will take time and cooperation from policymakers to fully implement.

But we’re fighting back.

Within the first few weeks of the new administration, GLAD Law filed multiple lawsuits challenging these harmful orders.

And we’re making progress. GLAD Law and attorneys across the country are working to stop, delay, and minimize the impact of these attacks on LGBTQ+ rights.

Learn about the executive orders and legal challenges:

How GLAD Law is Fighting Back

GLAD Law and the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) are challenging Trump’s ban on military service members:

塔尔博特诉美国案: We are representing individuals who want to enlist as well as active service members who bring decades of experience across all military branches, contributing among the highest levels of service.

  • The latest (as of 5/6): On March 18, the court issued a 全国初步禁令 – halting the ban’s enforcement. On March 26, Judge Reyes rejected a Trump administration motion to dissolve the preliminary injunction. On May 6, the Supreme Court of the United States 作出裁决 希林诉特朗普案 允许特朗普的跨性别军人禁令生效，同时多项法律挑战仍在推进。当晚晚些时候，原告 塔尔博特 向哥伦比亚特区巡回上诉法院提交了一份简报，回应最高法院的裁决，并提醒法院注意国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯对跨性别军人的公开贬低。 了解更多.

Ireland v. Hegseth: We are representing two longstanding, high-ranking Air Force service members who are facing significant disruption to their service.

  • The latest (as of 5/15): The plaintiffs in this case are now covered by the case 塔尔博特诉美国案.

莫伊诉特朗普案, 多伊诉邦迪案， 和 琼斯诉邦迪案: GLAD Law and NCLR have filed three lawsuits challenging sections of an executive order that directs the federal Bureau of Prisons to house transgender women in men’s prisons and to unlawfully withhold necessary medical care. We are defending transgender women who were suddenly removed from their general population housing in women’s prisons, placed in special housing units (SHU), and faced imminent transfer to men’s facilities. They were also at risk of having their essential medical care terminated.

  • The latest (as of 7/1): We secured preliminary injunction orders in Moe, Doe， 和 Jones, preventing our clients from being transferred to men’s facilities and ensuring their continued access to necessary medical care. The Trump administration has appealed those preliminary injunctions to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and the three cases have been consolidated for briefing and ruling on this appeal. 了解更多.

蒂雷尔和特梅尔诉埃德尔布卢特: GLAD Law and the ACLU of New Hampshire are defending Parker Tirrell and Iris Turmelle, two transgender high schoolers challenging the ban that aims to keep them and other trans girls from playing the sports they love with their friends. The case was originally filed as a challenge to a New Hampshire state law, but was expanded to include President Trump after his February 5 executive order to ban trans girls from sports nationwide.

  • The latest (as of 2/12): We expanded our lawsuit beyond New Hampshire, adding a challenge to President Trump’s executive order banning transgender girls and women from sports nationwide. 了解更多.
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Banning Transgender Servicemembers

President Trump issued an executive order on January 27, 2025 banning transgender people from serving in the U.S. military. This reckless ban weakens our military, subjecting qualified transgender servicemembers to discharge because of who they are and turning away skilled individuals who meet rigorous standards and are ready to serve.

案例

  • 塔尔博特诉美国案, filed by GLAD Law and NCLR
  • Ireland v. Hegseth, filed by GLAD Law and NCLR
  • 希林诉特朗普案, filed by Lambda Legal and the Human Rights Campaign
    • The latest (as of 5/6): The Supreme Court of the United States granted the Trump Administration’s request to stay the preliminary injunction that blocked enforcement of the executive order. This order lifts the nationwide injunction, allowing the military ban to go into effect. 了解更多.

Barriers for Transgender People in Public Life

Executive Order 14168, issued on January 20, 2025, is an alarming attempt to undo the basic protections that allow transgender people to go about their daily lives. It directs the State Department to stop issuing accurate passports for trans people, instructs the Bureau of Prisons to deny incarcerated transgender people health care and appropriate housing, and charges the Department of Housing and Urban Development to reverse rules that give trans people safe access to shelters. It also pushes federal agencies to remove mention of gender identity from their websites, materials, and forms.

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  • Defending the rights of transgender women who are incarcerated:
    • 莫伊诉特朗普案, 多伊诉麦克亨利案， 和 琼斯诉特朗普案, filed by GLAD Law and NCLR
    • Kingdom v. Trump, filed by the ACLU and Transgender Law Center, challenges the policies prohibiting incarcerated transgender people from accessing healthcare.
      • The latest (as of 6/3): The district court granted class certification and a preliminary injunction in Kingdom requiring the BOP to provide hormone therapy and accommodations to incarcerated transgender people while the case continues. 了解更多.
  • Challenges to the State Department’s refusal to issue correct passports for transgender people:
    • 奥尔诉特朗普案, filed by the ACLU and ACLU of Massachusetts
      • The latest (as of 6/17): The district court ordered that the State Department must allow people with a gender identity different from their sex assigned at birth to self-select the the sex designation on their passport while the case 奥尔诉特朗普案 proceeds.
    • Schlacter v. US Department of State, filed by Lambda Legal
  • American Public Health Association v. National Institute of Health, filed by the ACLU and ACLU of Massachusetts, challenges the abrupt cancellation of research grants by the NIH due to their connections to gender identity or diversity, equity, and inclusion.
  • Doctors for America v. Office of Personnel Management, filed by Public Citizen against the OPM, CDC, FDA, and HHS, challenges the removal of a broad range of health-related data and information, including information related to LGBTQ+ people, from publicly accessible government websites.
    • The latest (as of 3/11): The motion for a temporary restraining order was granted requiring the agencies to restore the webpages and datasets while litigation proceeds. The plaintiffs have filed a motion for a preliminary injunction and summary judgment.
  • E.K. v. Department of Defense Education Activity, filed by the ACLU, ACLU of Virginia, and ACLU of Kentucky, challenges the Department of Defense Education Activity’s removal of educational material related to race and gender from its libraries and classrooms in K-12 schools.
  • National Urban League v. Trump, filed by Lambda Legal on behalf of the National Urban League, the National Fair Housing Alliance, and the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, challenges three executive orders that target DEIA initiatives and seek to deny the existence of transgender people.
    • The latest (as of 5/2): The district court declined to grant a preliminary injunction. 了解更多.
  • Rhode Island Latino Arts v. National Endowment for the Arts, filed by the ACLU and ACLU of Rhode Island, challenges the NEA requirement that grant applicants certify they will not use use federal funds to “promote gender ideology.”
    • The latest (as of 4/3): The court denied the plaintiffs motion for preliminary injunction. 了解更多.
  • San Francisco AIDS Foundation v. Trump, filed by Lambda Legal on behalf of multiple LGBTQ, Health, and HIV organizations, challenges three executive orders that seek to deny the existence of transgender people and prohibits and prohibits federal contractors from respecting their identities, terminate equity-related grants, and prohibit federal contractors and grantees from employing DEIA principles in their work.
  • Schiff v. Office of Personnel Management, filed by the ACLU, ACLU of Massachusetts, and the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic at Yale Law School on behalf of doctors from Harvard Medical School, challenges the removal of research articles that mention LGBTQ+ people from a government-run website.

Restricting Health Care

On January 28, 2025, President Trump signed an order intended to ban health care for transgender young people under age 19. It seeks to deny coverage for medically necessary care to transgender dependents of federal employees and seeks to ban federal funding for any healthcare organization that provides this necessary and proven healthcare for transgender people under 19.

案例

  • PFLAG v. Trump, filed by ACLU, Lambda Legal, and the ACLU of Maryland
    • The latest (as of 3/4): A federal judge granted a request for preliminary injunction, blocking enforcement of the executive orders threatening federal funding for providers of gender-affirming medical care for people under 19. 了解更多。
  • Washington v. Trump, filed by Attorneys General from 华盛顿, 明尼苏达州， 和 俄勒冈州
    • The latest (as of 3/17): The court granted the plaintiffs request for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction. The court denied Washington’s request to hold the Trump administration in contempt after a grant to Seattle Children’s hospital was cancelled despite orders blocking the freezing of federal funding.

Targeting Transgender Girls in Sports

President Trump signed an executive order barring transgender girls from participating in school sports. President Trump’s order subjects transgender girls to discrimination in violation of federal equal protection guarantees, including their rights under Title IX. The order also unlawfully subjects schools to the threat of losing federal funding for allowing transgender girls to play school sports.

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