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. Ninth Circuit revives DOJ subpoena to QueerDoc

    Enforcement/investigationDOJ

  2. DOJ abandons effort to force UPMC to produce transgender minors' records

    Enforcement/investigationDOJ

  3. Settlement: Connecticut Children's Medical Center agrees to end gender-affirming care for minors

    Institutional complianceDOJ

  4. Court enjoins DOJ's "bad-faith campaign" as to Stanford children's hospital records

    Enforcement/investigationDOJ

  5. Joint ED-DOJ investigations of school districts over LGBTQ student-privacy and curriculum policies

    Enforcement/investigationDOJ

  6. Court blocks N.Y. grand jury subpoenas (Coe v. Blanche); DOJ appeals and seeks stay

    Enforcement/investigationDOJ

  7. Settlement: Cleveland Clinic agrees to decades-long ban on gender-affirming care for minors

    Institutional complianceDOJ

  8. Rhode Island Hospital subpoena quashed; DOJ lawyers referred for possible discipline

    Enforcement/investigationDOJ

  9. Federal grand jury subpoenas from N.D. Texas to hospitals for transgender minors' records

    Enforcement/investigationFDA

  10. EEOC federal-sector appellate decision holds Title VII permits excluding transgender employees from opposite-sex intimate spaces, overruling Lusardi in part

    Enforcement/investigationEEOC

  11. CHOP subpoena narrowed; QueerDoc and other subpoenas quashed in fall 2025

    Enforcement/investigationDOJ

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

    Enforcement/investigationDOJ

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

    Guidance/memoOPM

  14. GSA rescinds the 2016 Federal Management Regulation bulletin guaranteeing restroom access by gender identity in GSA-controlled buildings

    Final rule

  15. Bondi memorandum "Preventing the Mutilation of American Children" (FGM-statute, FDCA, and False Claims Act enforcement against providers)

    Guidance/memoDOJ

  16. ED-DOJ "Title IX Special Investigations Team" created

    Enforcement/investigationDOJ

  17. Civil Rights Division reoriented under Dhillon; anti-trans enforcement missions; ~70% attorney exodus

    Personnel actionDOJ

  18. TSA advisory memorandum classifies barred transgender officers as "limited duty," cutting off shift trades and extra shifts

    Guidance/memoTSA

  19. National Guard Bureau directs all Adjutants General to complete facilities redesignation by March 28, 2025 (the "Nordhaus Memorandum")

    Guidance/memo

  20. Justice Department issues the EO 14168 sec. 3(f) guidance narrowing Bostock and withdrawing prior single-sex-space memoranda

    Guidance/memoDOJ

  21. TSA codifies the pat-down bar and restroom exclusion into standard operating procedures and rescinds Management Directive 900.3

    Guidance/memoTSA

  22. TSA bars all transgender officers from conducting passenger pat-downs (the "February 7 Directive")

    Guidance/memoTSA

  23. Illinois National Guard distributes compliance guide requiring restroom designation by biological sex (the "Garrison Memorandum")

    Institutional compliance

  24. Bondi warning letters to Maine, Minnesota, and California over transgender athletes

    Guidance/memoDOJ

  25. Secretary of Defense orders all DoD components to designate intimate spaces by sex (the "Hegseth Memorandum")

    Guidance/memoDOD

  26. Under Secretary of Defense (P&R) issues implementation memorandum to all DoD civilian employees (the "Selnick Memorandum")

    Guidance/memoDOD

  27. OPM orders every agency head to redesignate "intimate spaces" by biological sex within 48 hours (the "Ezell Memorandum")

    Guidance/memoOPM

  28. Executive Order 14168 sec. 4(d) directs that federal "intimate spaces" be designated by sex, and sec. 3(f) orders corrective Bostock guidance

    Executive orderEOP

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