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
"Trans and intersex Americans’ health is suffering. The Trump administration could make it worse." Trans people are experiencing poor physical and mental health, while intersex people are struggling to find health care at all, new data shows. Orion Rummler, The 19th, March 12, 2025.
Despite some 2024 election postmortems saying that anti-immigrant propaganda mattered more than anti-trans propaganda:
“The 2025 session of the Georgia General Assembly ends Friday [April 4], and lawmakers are in crunch time to get their bills over the finish line.
Republicans who control both the state House and Senate prioritized strengthening school safety and restricting transgender athletes from competing outside of the sex listed on their birth certificates. But lawmakers are also considering legislation related to health, immigration, religion and marijuana.”
— Trans Georgians, school safety bills await their fate as state legislative session draws to a close, Maya T. Prabhu and Michelle Baruchman, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 31, 2025
That AJC article continues:
After moving quickly earlier this year, Republican lawmakers have held on to bills regulating transgender people until the final week of the legislative session. And all of the bills will be heard in the House.
Senate Bill 1, which would require transgender student athletes to play sports according to the sex as identified at birth, was voted out of committee last week and could get a vote on the House floor this week. Sponsored by state Sen. Greg Dolezal, R-Cumming, the bill was combined with House legislation and named after former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines.
Gaines tied for fifth place with a transgender woman during a 2022 competition held at Georgia Tech and has since traveled the country speaking against allowing transgender people to play sports according to their gender identity.
Senate Bill 39 would ban the State Health Benefits Plan and Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care for state employees and their family members. That bill was approved by a House committee last week, but it is expected to go back to committee Monday to be amended.
A House committee approved Senate Bill 30 last week. The bill establishes guidelines that must be met by physicians, mental health professionals and parents before transgender minors could receive puberty blocking medications to aid in their transition.
Though several bills regulating transgender people are moving through the legislative process this year, the one regulating athletic competition is most likely to become law.
Further, “Senate Bill 21, sponsored by Republican Sen. Blake Tillery…strips municipalities of their sovereign immunity if they shield immigrants in the country without permission from deportation,” and under “House Bill 531…plaintiffs against cities could receive a higher award amount than plaintiffs against the state. The state and county governments are already protected by sovereign immunity in Georgia. Tillery included some of the language around “sanctuary” cities in HB 531 as well.”
Further, “a Republican effort to pass “religious liberty” legislation is back on track, after a House committee approved Senate Bill 36, sponsored by state Sen. Ed Setzler of Acworth. The measure would limit the government’s ability to pass or enforce laws that conflict with religious beliefs.” Though some people argued for provisions protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination, Republicans didn’t include any such provision.
On April 4, 2025, Parker Molloy wrote on Patreon:
"Trans people did not cost Democrats the 2024 election.
According to post-election polling from the Human Rights Campaign, just 4% of voters (coming in dead last among issues) identified trans issues as the top motivating issue for their vote. That's right — despite Republicans spending over $150 million on anti-trans attack ads, these issues barely registered with voters when deciding who to support.
The data show that voters were far more concerned with the economy, immigration, and democracy than they were with trans rights. Half of Trump voters listed the economy as their most important issue, while 20% cited immigration.
Meanwhile, what demographic stayed firmly in Democrats' corner? LGBTQ voters, who made up 8% of the electorate and backed Harris over Trump by a whopping 86% to 12% margin. This support actually increased by 15 points since 2020, showing stronger solidarity with Democrats than in any of the previous five presidential elections."
Ah, but here's some good news: House Democrat Introduces Bill To Expand Access To Trans Health Care: The proposed legislation is a long shot as Republicans control both the House and the Senate, and are consistently attacking trans rights. Lil Kalish, HuffPost, Mar 31, 2025
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