This page is part of a resource collection on Authoritarianism & Bigotry in the Second Trump Administration.
See also the resource page on anti-trans extremism.
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January 19. Emily Yoffe: Trump’s Day One Executive Order on ‘Male and Female.’ The White House strikes out at gender ideology and pronouns. Also: ends housing of biological men in women’s prisons; self-ID on passports; and more.
January 24. David Gilbert: ‘We Have Seen a Lot More Hate’: Trans People Are Already Terrified. After Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order directed against trans people this week, trans and nonbinary people are scared of what happens next.
January 29. Alex Cooper: Trump signs executive order targeting transgender students, their teachers, and their schools.
February 6. Odette Yousef: Trump’s anti-trans effort is an agenda cornerstone with echoes in history.
February 12. Sam Levine: Trans healthcare providers face chaos under Trump order: ‘Like withholding CPR’.
February 13. The New York Times: U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website.
February 25. Jaclyn Diaz: Federal prisons prep to move trans inmates as early as this week.
March 10. Jo Yurcaba: Texas bill would make identifying as transgender a felony punishable by jail.
March 20. Alana Wise: Trump suspends $175 million in funding to University of Pennsylvania over trans athletes.
April 3. ACLU: The Human Toll of Trump’s Anti-Trans Crusade.
April 4. Maya Pontone: Judge Denies Motion to Block Trump’s Anti-Trans Arts Funding Bar: The ruling means the National Endowment for the Arts can continue to impose Trump’s “gender ideology” criteria on its grant applications.
April 15. Manisha Krishnan: Trans Musicians Are Canceling US Tour Dates Due to Trump’s Gender ID Rules.
May 16. The Guardian: US military commanders to be told to oust trans troops via medical checks.
May 23. Fenit Nirappil & Casey Parks: All Medicaid gender transition care is cut in late addition to GOP tax bill: The prohibition abruptly expanded to include adults hours before the House passed the bill, escalating the crackdown on transgender care once focused on children.
May 28. Katelyn Burns: The terrifying reality Trump’s megabill creates for trans people.
May 30. Geoff Mulvihill: Most LGBTQ+ adults feel Americans don’t accept transgender people, Pew poll finds.
May 31. Chloe Veltman: Drag artists are getting attacked. This safety handbook aims to help
June 10. Yessenia Funes: Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement: An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.
June 11. Alyssa Tirrell: Fox News aired more than 400 weekday segments mentioning trans athletes over just four months.
July 5. Katie Burkholder: South Georgia library manager fired for trans-inclusive display.
August 5. Lisa Song: The Trump Administration Is Promoting Its Anti-Trans Agenda Globally at the United Nations.
August 12. Melissa Hellmann: ‘Changing lives’: Black Trans Travel Fund pushes forward amid Trump’s anti-trans attacks.
August 20. Casey Parks & David Ovalle: Government’s demand for trans care info sought addresses, doctors’ notes, texts: Legal experts said the Justice Department’s subpoenas related to medical care for transgender patients younger than 19 appear to be unprecedented.
August 26. Jo Yurcaba: States must ax transgender references from sex ed or risk losing funds, Trump admin says: The mandate comes just days after the Trump administration terminated funding for a sex education program in California.
August 29. Will Carless: No, there is not an ‘epidemic’ of shootings by trans people.
September 4. Perry Stein & Natalie Allison: DOJ discusses a potential ban on transgender people owning firearms.
September 7. Ashifa Kassam: LGBTQ+ Americans consider move to Canada to escape Trump: ‘I’m afraid of living here’.
September 11. Rachel Savage: Politicians in at least 51 countries used anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric during elections, NGO finds.
September 16. Kevin Rector & Ana Ceballos: Charlie Kirk railed against transgender rights. His killing has further fueled the fight.
September 16. Dell Cameron & Andrew Couts: Heritage Foundation Uses Bogus Stat to Push a Trans Terrorism Classification:By inflating numbers and narrowing definitions, Heritage promotes a false link between transgender identity and violence in its push for the FBI to create a new terrorism category.
September 20. Olivia Empson: Four people arrested in Washington after alleged hate crime attack on trans woman.
September 25. Melissa Gira Grant: The Right’s Baseless Project to Link Trans People With Extremism: A campaign for the FBI to adopt a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism” is less about law enforcement than politics.
October 30. Selena Simmons-Duffin: Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally.
October 31. Michelle Rama-Poccia: President Trump Is Using Lies to Attack Trans Kids and Endanger Their Health: Here Are the Facts.
December 4. Jaclyn Diaz: DOJ orders prison inspectors to stop considering LGBTQ safety standards.
December 5. Sam Levin: DoJ moves to eliminate sexual abuse protections for LGBTQ+ people in prisons.
December 5. Selena Simmons-Duffin: HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait.