| | 2025 PFLAG National Convention Registration is open! Get early bird rates now for Learning With Love: The 2025 PFLAG National Convention. Through workshops, panels, and presentations from PFLAG National staff, chapter leaders, organizers, and community leaders, we’ll provide insight, expertise, training, strategies, and best practices so that PFLAG friends, families, members, supporters, and leaders can work together to fulfill our organizational mission to create a caring, just, and affirming world for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them. Don't miss early-bird rates—visit pflag.org/2025convention/ now to get started. State Actions New Hampshirites SB 211, an anti-trans athlete and facilities ban, and HB 377, an anti-trans healthcare ban, have each passed one chamber of the state legislature. We need your help to stop these bills from getting to the Governor's desk. Tell your legislators to respect trans kids and vote NO on these bills! Texans The Texas legislature has been busy all week advancing discriminatory legislation – and now the State House looks ready to move SB 240, an anti-trans bathroom ban. Tell your legislators that trans people belong in Texas and to vote NO on SB 240! |
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|  | | Here is a sample of what’s going on around the country. Please be kind to yourself and use your discretion while reading this section. You can share news from your state with advocacy@pflag.org for possible inclusion in a future newsletter. Georgia - Gov. Brian Kemp signs anti-trans healthcare ban for incarcerated individuals into law. SB 185 goes into immediate effect, banning state funds for all gender-affirming healthcare for incarcerated trans people housed by the Georgia Department of Corrections. Missouri - Legislature approves resolution putting abortion and gender-affirming care ban on the ballot. HJR 73 passed the Senate after a filibuster by pro-equality legislators was shut down by a procedural move by the Senate majority. The ballot measure will be put to voters in November 2026 and, if approved, would enshrine a ban on abortion and gender-affirming care into the state constitution. Montana - State judge rules that anti-trans healthcare ban is unconstitutional. District Court Judge Jason Marks ruled that Senate Bill 99, which was enacted in 2023, violates the Montana Constitution’s rights to privacy, equal protection and free speech. Nebraska - Legislators advance anti-trans athletics ban. LB 89 also initially included a bathroom ban impacting schools and government buildings, but that provision was successfully amended out due to pressure from Senator Merv Riepe. Ohio - Bill confirming rules disadvantaging trans candidates for office introduced. HB 196 confirms that candidates for office must complete election forms with their current name as well as any former names. The bill also allows anyone of any party to challenge the certification of candidates for office, rather than limiting these challenges to members of the candidate’s own party. Last year, a trans candidate for the State House was nearly disqualified because she did not include her deadname on her candidacy papers. Tennessee - Gov. Bill Lee signs bill requiring intentional misgendering of trans students. HB 1270 protects educators from facing any repercussions for intentionally misgendering or deadnaming trans students, faculty, and staff. The law also requires educators to only refer to minors by their legal name and pronouns matching their assigned sex at birth, essentially forcing educators to misgender trans students. Texas - State House passes sex redefinition bill. HB 229 would define “man” and “woman” in state law by their sex assigned at birth. Should the bill become law, it could force 120,000 trans Texans to be identified with their sex assigned at birth in state records, even if they have changed their state IDs or birth certificates to reflect their gender identity. Virginia - State officials investigating Loudon County schools over trans affirming locker room policy. Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares announced an investigation into how Loudon County Public Schools handled complaints by three cisgender boys about a trans boy using the boys’ locker room. The school district has an affirming policy allowing trans students to use the bathroom and locker room aligning with their gender identity. |
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| | | | In addition to other federal issues, this section includes ongoing activity regarding the executive orders (EOs) signed by President Trump since January 20, 2025. Please know that EOs do NOT override the United States Constitution, federal statutes, or established legal precedent. EOs are required by law to follow a process before changes can be implemented, and for many of these EOs, litigation is not only expected but is also already happening. To inform your activism, advocacy, and media work, please use our Executive Order explainers and resources web page, which is updated frequently as we gather information from our many trusted partners. Medicaid cuts proposed in House bill. The House Energy and Commerce Committee is considering a bill that would make several cuts to Medicaid, including through a proposed work requirement and stricter eligibility verification. Trump fires Librarian of Congress. The Administration informed Carla Hayden by email that she had been terminated on May 8th. Hayden, who was nominated as Librarian of Congress by President Obama and Senate-confirmed, was the first woman and the first African-American to be Librarian of Congress. Trump considering suspending habeas corpus. Trump’s policy adviser, Stephen Miller, stated that the Administration is considering suspending habeas corpus, the Constitutional provision that protects individuals from unlawful detainment. As many as 1,000 openly trans service members are being separated from the military. As per a Pentagon directive from May 8th, following a May 6th Supreme Court ruling allowing Trump’s trans military ban to take effect, 1,000 openly trans service members will be involuntarily forced from service. The Pentagon will also begin looking through medical records to identify additional trans service members to be discharged. Justice Department stops collecting data about violence against trans people. The DOJ has removed references to gender and gender identity from at least four federal surveys, including the National Crime Victimization Survey, the Survey on Sexual Victimization, and the Survey of Inmates in Local Jails. This is despite previous surveys showing that trans people are disproportionately victims of violence. |
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| | | | Liev Schreiber’s daughter comes out at trans. In an interview with Variety, Schreiber called his daughter, Kai, “a fighter.” Dr. Anthony Fauci receives Harvey Milk Award. The former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) was awarded the Harvey Milk Chesed Award, which is given annually to an individual who has made “outstanding contributions to the LGBTQ+ and Jewish communities that exemplify the virtue of chesed, or ‘lovingkindness.’” Fauci was chosen as the recipient of this year’s award in recognition of his work researching HIV/AIDS and his willingness to listen to HIV/AIDS activists at a time when most refused to engage with them. |
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