2025: Trans rights at the beginning of the Trump administration

Biologists Rip Trump’s 'Non-Sensical' Executive Order Declaring Only 2 Sexes: “Clearly, this order is not fully informed by current biological science,” said Dr. Richard Bribiescas, president of the Human Biology Association. Jennifer Bendery, HuffPost, Jan 23, 2025

Lawyers and advocacy groups advise members of the LGBTQ+ community to take precautions under Trump’s executive order, Julianna Bragg, CNN, January 23, 2025

Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Order Is Unscientific Nonsense: The Trump administration is taking a brute-force approach to push trans people out of public life. Natasha Lennard, The Intercept, January 22, 2025

Trump's 'Two Sexes' Order Could Cause Major Issues For Passports: The executive order, which requires federal documents to reflect sex assigned at birth, is already disrupting life and sparking fear for trans Americans. Lil Kalish, HUffPost, Jan 22, 2025

Rubio Orders State Department to Stop Issuing Accurate Passports to Trans People: Trans, intersex, and nonbinary people applying for passports will no longer be able to select an “X” marker for gender. Shawn Musgrave, January 23 2025

Unhinged GOP senator says trans kids should “live in fear” of their own parents: Tommy Tuberville appeared to be accusing parents of abusing their children to turn them trans. Alex Bollinger, LGBTQ Nation, January 23, 2025

Trump’s Administration Is Taking Down Sites About Gender Identity All Over the Internet, Samantha Cole, 404 Media, Jan 23, 2025

There's a military ban:

3 Out of 525,600 Minutes: U.S. Military Budget for Gender Transition: We can collectively afford gender-affirming healthcare. Tucker Lieberman, Prism & Pen, March 4, 2025

But a sports ban failed:

"Legislation that aimed to bar transgender women and girls nationwide from participating in school athletic competitions designated for female athletes failed to advance Monday night [March 3, 2025] in a divided Senate as Democrats stood united against an issue that Republicans leveraged in last year’s elections.

A test vote on the bill failed to gain the 60 votes needed to advance in the chamber as senators stuck to party lines in a 51-45 vote tally."

— Associated Press, Bill To Ban Transgender Athletes Takes A Loss In Senate Vote: "What Republicans are doing today is inventing a problem to stir up a culture war,” one Democratic senator said, Mar 4, 2025