🏳️🌈🏺2025 in review: executive power
🏳️🌈🏺 2-Gay in History 🏺🏳️🌈
2025 Year in Review — Post 1 Executive Power
• Donald Trump’s “biological sex” language pushed across federal agencies
→Rights tied to sex based discrimination become legally unstable.
[EO sex definitions | Jan]
• DOJ deprioritizes LGBTQ civil-rights enforcement
→ Complaints filed; investigations don’t happen
[DOJ enforcement shift | Feb]
• Federal agencies withdraw LGBTQ-affirming guidance
→Shelters, prisons, social services discriminate
[Agency guidance EO | Feb]
• Department of Education targets “gender ideology.”
→Relationships, queer history, & GSAs reframed as “political.” Books removed from libraries, teachers closeted
[DOE enforcement memo | Mar]
• Federal agencies halt LGBTQ data collection & research funding
→ Harm becomes statistically invisible, HIV studies stop & poppers companies raided
[HHS research guidance | Q2]
• Administration conducts a sweeping search&replace across federal websites
→ “LGBTQ,” “transgender,” & “gay” removed from HHS, DOJ, & education pages
[Federal website purge | Mar]
• Federal rhetoric reframes drag as inherently sexual
→ Cities restrict permits & venues without bans. Events disappear
[DOJ drag statements | Mar]
• Executive reinstatement of the trans military ban
→ Thousands forced into discharge or legal limbo without misconduct
[Trans military EO | Feb]
• White House elevates “parental rights” over student safety
→ Youth confidentiality collapses. Teacher/CPS intervention declines
[WH education remarks | Apr]
• Corporate partners retreat as federal tone hardens around “public order”
→ Pride sponsorships withdrawn; LGBTQ programs labeled “high-risk” or “DEI” increased policing, surveillance, & permit scrutiny
[public order guidance | Q2]
• Federal immigration authorities deny asylum for LGBTQ applicants
[LGBTQ asylum guidance shift | Q2]
• References to transgender people removed from Stonewall National Monument materials.
[NPS Stonewall edits | Jun]
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatens hospitals with loss of federal funding for providing gender-affirming care.
→ Hospitals pause or cancel care immediately.
[HHS press conference | Dec]
Next time: the courts in 2025
