Public data on transgender policy, legislation and the courts

Federal actions

Federal actions that affect transgender people: executive orders, rules, guidance, funding decisions, enforcement and personnel changes, and court orders that bear on them. Each has the sources it rests on, and an action links to the court cases that challenge or enforce it.

Settlements with hospital systems announced by the U.S. Department of Justice or a state attorney general are on their own page: Settlements.

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  1. Two institutions agree to sign the Compact for Academic Excellence and its sex-definition clause

    Institutional complianceED

  2. FY2021-2025 SGM strategic plan lapses with no FY2026-2030 successor; annual portfolio reporting ends

    OtherNIH

  3. Minnesota Department of Education and State High School League found in violation of Title IX

    Enforcement/investigationHHS

  4. Presidential Determination No. 2025-13 sets the FY2026 refugee ceiling at 7,500, primarily for Afrikaners

    OtherEOP

  5. Presidential Determination No. 2025-14 transfers initial refugee resettlement from State to HHS

    OtherEOP

  6. NSPM-7, "Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence"

    Presidential memorandumDOJ

  7. Formal opposition to codifying NCVS gender-identity removals in OMB clearance

    Data/communicationsBJS

  8. OIDO and CISOM clear their backlogs by batch-emailing form closures

    Data/communicationsDHS

  9. ED defunds New York City's Magnet Schools Assistance Program grants over transgender-inclusive guidelines

    Funding actionED

  10. Boston Children's Hospital subpoena quashed as issued in "bad faith"; DOJ appeals

    Enforcement/investigationDOJ

  11. Confirmation of effective date for the Part 37 rescission

    Final ruleDOL

  12. Notice proposing revision of the apprenticeship equal-employment-opportunity information collection

    Data/communicationsDOL

  13. SSA removes gender references from additional Privacy Act systems of records

    Data/communicationsSSA

  14. Five Virginia districts placed on high-risk funding status; termination proceedings announced

    Funding actionED

  15. Air Force involuntary-separation framework: medical boards, deployment bans, SkillBridge denial, cadet disenrollment

    Guidance/memoUSAF

  16. President announces the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors class and states he personally vetoed "woke" candidates

    Data/communicationsEOP

  17. Army amends its litigation regulation to remove "gender ideology" language

    Final ruleUSA

  18. EO 14332, "Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking"

    Executive orderOMB

  19. Air Force revokes approved early retirements (TERA) for transgender members with 15-18 years of service

    Personnel actionUSAF

  20. GLMA v. NIH: second court blocks NIH terminations of LGBTQI+ health research

    OtherCOURT

  21. CRCL and OIDO restrict complaint intake to English-language web portals only

    Guidance/memoDHS

  22. OMB withholds $3.1 billion of appropriated PEPFAR funds; key-population prevention programs terminated

    Funding actionDOS

  23. OPM Carrier Letter 2025-01b: gender-affirming care excluded from FEHB/PSHB for 2026

    Guidance/memoOPM

  24. SPPO opens FERPA investigations into four Kansas school districts over gender-identity confidentiality

    Enforcement/investigationED

  25. Scrubbed State Department country reports degrade country-conditions evidence for LGBTQ asylum claims

    Data/communicationsEOIR

  26. State Department deletes SOGIESC sections from the annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

    Data/communicationsDOS

  27. Brown University agreement adopts binary sex definitions across all single-sex campus facilities

    Institutional complianceEOP

  28. Five Northern Virginia districts found in violation; directed investigation opened into the Oregon Department of Education

    Enforcement/investigationED

  29. Air Force amends the Wake Island Code to remove "gender ideology" language

    Final ruleUSAF

  30. EO 14321, "Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets"

    Executive orderHHS

  31. EO 14319, "Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government"

    Executive orderOMB

  32. U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee adopts EO 14201 compliance policy and directs national governing bodies to follow

    Institutional compliance

  33. Matter of K-E-S-G-: BIA precedent rejects particular social groups defined by gender

    OtherDOJ

  34. NIH inclusion-policy pages updated with no SGM or gender-identity content

    Guidance/memoNIH

  35. Senate ranking members tell Noem the shutdown violates the Homeland Security Act and demand an accounting

    Data/communications

  36. SAMHSA terminates the 988 Lifeline's LGBTQ+ youth specialized service ("Press 3")

    Funding action / Program terminationSAMHSA

  37. OIDO auto-replies that it can no longer receive complaints, in response to an urgent complaint about a transgender detainee's medical care

    Data/communicationsDHS

  38. Reduction in force executes the reorganization; DRL loses roughly 70–80 percent of its staff

    Personnel actionDOS

  39. OPM issues superseding guidance extending the mandate to bathrooms, locker rooms, and lactation rooms

    Guidance/memoOPM

  40. FTC workshop "The Dangers of 'Gender-Affirming Care' for Minors" and request for public comment

    Enforcement/investigationFTC

  41. Reconciliation act appropriates $256.7 million to the Kennedy Center for renovation

    Funding actionEOP

  42. EOIR PM 25-34 steers immigration judges away from gender-based asylum precedent

    Guidance/memoEOIR

  43. Summary judgment: OPM and HHS takedown directives vacated; full restoration ordered

    OtherCOURT

  44. Proposed rule rewriting the Registered Apprenticeship equal-opportunity regulations (29 CFR Part 30), deleting "gender identity" from the equal-opportunity pledge

    Proposed ruleDOL

  45. DOL proposes rescission of EO 11246 implementing regulations

    Proposed ruleDOL

  46. Direct final rule removing the Workforce Investment Act nondiscrimination regulations (29 CFR Part 37)

    Final ruleDOL

  47. Proposed rule to rescind the affirmative outreach requirements at 29 CFR 38.40

    Proposed ruleDOL

  48. University of Pennsylvania signs OCR Title IX resolution agreement, strips Lia Thomas's records

    Institutional complianceED

  49. University of Pennsylvania signs resolution agreement; erases Lia Thomas's records and issues apologies

    Institutional complianceED

  50. CRCL removes its published investigation and recommendation memoranda from public access

    Data/communicationsDHS

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This section covers executive-branch instruments only — orders, rules, guidance, funding decisions, enforcement and personnel. Nothing litigation is listed here: not court rulings, not case filings, and not the government's own positions in court. All of that lives in the litigation archive, which tracks cases with their dockets.

Every action carries at least one source. A document chip marked PDF opens the document here, in this site's own reader, with its original source (a Federal Register notice, an agency page or a report) credited in the reader; any other chip links to the source the catalogue names for it.

Related litigation on a card links an action to the cases that challenge or enforce it, with each case's court, docket number and document count. Congressional hearings lists the hearings whose title or recording names the action; each opens the hearing's page.

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The descriptions, status notes and categories of this catalogue are the Trans Data Initiative team's, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 with credit. Primary documents linked here are U.S. government works.