LGBTQIA+

Revised funding opportunities for victim services organizations ban any activities characterizing domestic violence as a social justice issue.

While voters overwhelmingly felt safe, women and gender-nonconforming people were more likely to skip going to the polls due to safety concerns, a new report says.

Whenever I’m faced with a hard decision or a question that seems to have both endless answers and no right answer, Jeanette Winterson’s words, “What you risk reveals what you value” from Written on the Body echo in my head, urging me to dig deeper into what is really at the heart of it.

Outright International has conducted new research examining the consequences of Trump’s 90-day U.S. aid freeze on LGBTQIA+ organisations and communities worldwide. The freeze, implemented on the 24th of January 2025, has already led to widespread staff layoffs, program closures and increased violence and discrimination towards LGBTQIA+ groups.
Drawing on survey data and interviews, the report, Defunding Freedom: Impacts of US Foreign Aid Cuts on LGBTIQ People Worldwide, employs President Roosevelt’s framework of the ‘four freedoms’—freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of speech and conscience, and freedom to live with dignity—to illustrate the short—and long-term consequences of the funding cuts. 

President Donald Trump’s recent executive order declaring that the U.S. recognizes “only two sexes, male and female,” will not impact passports issued before the start of his term to transgender and nonbinary people that have their preferred gender or “X” marker.
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The White House told NOTUS that Monday’s executive order is not retroactive and does not invalidate old passports. However, if government-issued documents need to be renewed, they must reflect the person’s sex assigned at birth.
“They can still apply to renew their passport — they just have to use their God-given sex, which was decided at birth,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. “Thanks to President Trump, it is now the official policy of the federal government that there are only two sexes — male and female.”
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Trump’s order directs the departments of State and Homeland Security and the Office of Personnel Management to implement changes to “require that government-issued identification documents, including passports, visas, and Global Entry cards, accurately reflect the holder’s sex.”
It’s unclear when that will happen, given Secretary of State Marco Rubio is the only cabinet official who has been confirmed.
LGBTQ+ rights groups urged trans and nonbinary people to update documents like passports, Social Security cards, and driver’s licenses ahead of Trump’s return to the White House. While those documents remain valid, advocates expect lawsuits to challenge Monday’s order.
“Now we’re going to look at what they actually do and when people’s rights are actually affected, then there will be lawsuits,” said Jennifer Pizer, chief legal officer at Lambda Legal, a firm that supports LGBTQ+ rights.
Lambda Legal represented Dana Zzyym, an intersex and nonbinary veteran who challenged the State Department in 2017 for…