Trump admin 'illegally' attempting to 'graft' anti-transgender language onto longstanding sex discrimination statute

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Source: Law & Crime

Jan 14th, 2026, 2:18 pm


The Trump administration is unlawfully conditioning the release of billions of dollars in health, education, and research funding on whether or not states vow to discriminate against transgender people, the plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit filed this week claim.

The federal government's campaign against transgender people is nothing new — with President Donald Trump signing an executive order targeting "gender ideology" on the first day of his second term in office — but neither is the litigation challenging such efforts, the plaintiffs note in their 61-page complaint.

Such litigation has largely been successful as various groups have challenged anti-transgender funding conditions issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in recent months in at least three district courts across the country, the lawsuit notes.

"But HHS has not withdrawn the Gender Conditions from its Terms and Conditions or Grants Policy Statements, or informed State Recipients that the Gender Conditions will not be enforced," the lawsuit reads. "HHS has, instead, continued to add the Gender Conditions to various [funding notices]." And, despite multiple losses over imposing such conditions, a new policy along the same lines was imposed on funding recipients during October, November, and December 2025, the lawsuit says.

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/unlawful-on-multiple-grounds-trump-admin-illegally-attempting-to-graft-anti-transgender-language-onto-longstanding-sex-discrimination-statute-lawsuit-says/

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Full headline: 'Unlawful on multiple grounds': Trump admin 'illegally' attempting to 'graft' anti-transgender language onto longstanding sex discrimination statute, lawsuit says

Link to SUIT (PDF) - https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/new-york-v-et-al-v-united-states-department-of-health-and-human-services-et-al-complaint-2025.pdf

[AZProgressive]

1. I saw a frightening article recently

This seems like a good place to share it.

Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans

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Stanton said the U.S. was undergoing “a hardening of the categories” with people being either male or female—a binary, he noted, that does not exist in nature nor within many other cultures. He called it “totalitarian” and driven by “Nazi ideology,” explaining that the Nazis also held a binary view of men and women and killed many LGBTQIA+ individuals.

Brown pointed out that the conspiracy theory of so-called “cultural Marxism”—that leftists, feminists, Marxists, and LGBTQIA+ people are trying to destroy western civilization—was borrowed directly from the Nazis and their antisemitic claims of “Cultural Bolshevism.”

“The Trump administration and its bases…have identified a set of ‘enemies’ or ‘objectionable people’” and have fomented public prejudice against them “in a way that is escalating toward violence,” Theriault said.

He cautioned that transgender Americans are more vulnerable than other groups due to their population size. Today, they make up roughly one percent of the total U.S. population—a rough equivalent to Jews in 1933 Germany.

https://www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-warn-us-in-early-stages-of

[Solly Mack]

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