Trump reverses lgbtq protections
The Trump administration has revoked a Biden-era policy that previously ensured cases of LGBTQ+ discrimination would be investigated in schools receiving federal nutrition funding.
Newsweek reached out to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for comment via email on Thursday.
Why It Matters
The Trump administration has worked to dismantle policies established by the previous administration as well as pushing forward its own, including polices that directly affect the LGBTQ+ community, such as banning transgender individuals from military service and rolling back workplace protections.
On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump issued an order that said the government would recognize only two sexes, male and female, and that they are not changeable.
Hundreds of thousands of schools across the U.S. participate in various federal food and nutrition aid programs, with nearly 30 million student participants in the National School Lunch Program.
What To Know
Under former President Joe Biden, schools that received funds from the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) were required to"investigate allegations of discrimination based on gender identity or sexual ori
Background On Trump Time One Executive Orders Impacting The LGBTQ+ Community
by Brandon Wolf •
Overview
On his first day in office as the 47th president of the United States, President Trump signed a slew of executive orders (EOs) that impact the LGBTQ+ community, as good as many others. It is important to note that executive actions do NOT have the authority to override the United States Constitution, federal statutes, or established legal precedent. Many of these directives do just that or are regarding matters over which the president does not hold control. Given that, many of these orders will be difficult, if not impossible, to implement, and efforts to do so will be challenged through litigation.
Currently, much is unknown about whether or how the administration or other actors will comply with these directives, and in most instances rules will need to be promulgated or significant administrative guidance will need to be issued in order for implementation to occur. These are processes that grab time and require detailed additional plans to be developed.
Newly Issued Executive Orders
A number of executive efforts yesterday will impact the LGBTQ+ comm
In the second installment of the ACLU’s election 2024 memo series, our experts detail the threats a potential second Trump administration poses to the LGBTQ community, particularly trans people.
ACLU
June 13, 2024In the second installment of the ACLU’s election 2024 memo series, our experts detail the threats a potential second Trump administration poses to the LGBTQ community, particularly transgender people.
This piece was published before Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential election and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to represent the Democratic Party. No significant facts have been changed or added.
Donald Trump’s administration initiated a sustained, years-long effort to erase protections for LGBTQ people. This included an effort to “define ‘transgender’ out of existence,” erode protections for transgender students and workers, and weaken access to gender-affirming health care that most transgender people already struggled to access.
While President Joe Biden’s administration reversed much of the Trump-era abuses, just last month on the campaign footpath, Trump vowed to dismantle a new Biden administration policy that will extend prote
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07.29.2025 The new director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Jay Bhattacharya claimed: “Making America healthy again involves deprioritizing research that doesn’t have a chance of making America healthy, [such as] a lot of ideological explore that I deliberate served to make a perception that the NIH is a political group rather than the scientific organization it actually is.” Nearly 500 NIH staffers signed a proclamation noting how the Trump administration has forced the NIH “to politicize investigate by halting high-quality, peer reviewed grants and contracts” as well as “censoring critical research” on subjects including health disparities, health effects of climate transform, and gender culture. Director Bhattacharya made false claims about research supporting non-binary health care in supporting stopping future studies. Research from the New England Journal of Medicine and Stanford University finds that providing gender-affirming care significantly reduces incidence of depression, self-harm and attempts of suicide. “Eliminating research that further improves gender-affirming care is not protecting children,” a Johns Hopkins researcher noted, but is “sc
New executive order removes workplace protections for more than 114,000 transgender federal employees and LGBTQ employees of federal contractors
On January 21, President Trump issued an executive order revoking federal civil rights protections and DEI initiatives. The decree reverses protections for transgender federal employees and LGBTQ employees of federal contractors established by President Obama in 2014. The order also eliminates non-discrimination protections for employees of federal contractors based on race, national origin, sex, and religion dating help to the Johnson administration.
A new concise by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Commandment finds that the order will eliminate workplace protections for nearly 14,000 trans person federal employees and over 100,000 LGBTQ employees of federal contractors, along with many more employees of federal subcontractors.
“Transgender federal employees and LGBTQ employees of federal contractors are protected from employment discrimination by Title VII of the Civil Rights Operate of 1964,” said study author Brad Sears, Distinguished Senior Scholar of Commandment and Policy at the Williams Institute. “However, executive orders provide a evident sta