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. CDC publishes the 2025 Youth Risk Behavior Survey results without a transgender-identity breakdown

    Data/communicationsCDC

  2. Settlement: NYU Langone Hospitals agree to end gender-affirming care for minors and pay $8.5 million

    Institutional complianceDOJ

  3. Settlement: UPMC agrees to end gender-affirming care for minors and pay $950,000

    Institutional complianceDOJ

  4. Education opens a FERPA investigation into a Massachusetts district over an alleged social transition without parental knowledge

    Enforcement/investigationED

  5. Census Bureau proposes to bar race, ethnicity and sexual-orientation questions from the decennial census, allowing "biological sex"

    Proposed ruleUSBC

  6. Education releases the 2023-24 Civil Rights Data Collection with nonbinary-student and gender-identity harassment data suppressed

    Data/communicationsED

  7. Settlement: Mount Sinai Health System agrees to end gender-affirming care for minors

    Institutional complianceDOJ

  8. Education's annual FERPA "Back to School" letter makes schools' separate gender-identity records an enforcement priority

    Guidance/memoED

  9. Education resolves a FERPA complaint with Topeka Public Schools over "gender support plans" and refers Olathe and Shawnee Mission to DOJ

    Enforcement/investigationDOJ

  10. CDC ends direct HIV-prevention funding to community-based organizations (PS21-2102 / EHE non-renewal)

    Funding actionCDC

  11. CDC terminates a reported $600 million in HIV/STD prevention and surveillance grants concentrated in four states

    Funding actionCDC

  12. Court-ordered re-review of 5,000+ paused NIH applications; NIH issues 499 approvals

    Funding actionCOURT

  13. CMS proposes rules cutting federal Medicaid/CHIP funding for youth gender-affirming care and conditioning hospital participation

    Proposed ruleCMS

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

    OtherCOURT

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

    Funding actionDOS

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

    Funding actionSAMHSA

  17. APHA v. NIH: court finds terminations discriminatory and void, orders grants restored

    OtherCOURT

  18. NIH moves to reinstate roughly 900 terminated grants and ceases new terminations

    Funding actionNIH

  19. CMS demands financial data from children's hospitals on federally funded gender-affirming care

    Enforcement/investigationCMS

  20. NIH imposes "civil rights" certification as a term of award (NOT-OD-25-090)

    Funding actionNIH

  21. NSF terminates hundreds of grants flagged for DEI and gender-related keywords

    Funding actionNSF

  22. USDA freezes Maine nutrition funds over transgender-athlete policy; settles after TRO

    Funding actionUSDA

  23. White House pauses $175 million to University of Pennsylvania over Lia Thomas

    Funding actionHHS

  24. Second NIH termination wave reaches all transgender-related science, including animal studies

    Funding actionNIH

  25. NIH begins mass termination of transgender and LGBTQ+ health research grants

    Funding actionNIH

  26. DOGE terminates $881 million in Institute of Education Sciences contracts

    Funding actionED

  27. Education Department mass-terminates teacher-preparation grants under DEI directive; Supreme Court lets terminations stand

    Funding actionCOURT

  28. NEA requires grant applicants to certify funds will not "promote gender ideology"

    Funding actionNEA

  29. NIH internally flags and blocks "gender identity" research; award and review pipeline frozen for trans-health science

    Guidance/memoNIH

  30. USAID dismantled; approximately 90% of LGBTQ-related foreign assistance programs terminated

    Funding actionDOS

  31. Executive Order 14187 directs agencies to strip funding from institutions providing gender-affirming care to minors

    Executive orderNIH

  32. Foreign-aid freeze waiver excludes "gender ideology programs" and "transgender surgeries" from life-saving assistance

    Guidance/memoDOS

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How it is compiled is described under Methods.

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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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