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Deadline Extended! Learning With Love: The 2025 PFLAG National Convention will take place in Chicago from October 10-12, attendees will connect, learn, and share, coming away equipped with new skills to continue fighting for the rights of the LGBTQ+ community. 

Due to the level of interest and high volume of proposals that we have seen to date, we are extending the submission deadline to ensure that your voice has the chance to be heard. The deadline to submit has been extended to Saturday, May 31st!

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State Actions

Mainers

LD 233, LD 868, and LD 1134 would keep trans kids from playing sports and ban them from bathrooms, locker rooms, and other school facilities. Tell your legislators to respect trans kids and vote NO on these bills!

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 State Senate passed SB 240, which would ban trans people from using bathrooms and other sex-separated spaces in government buildings, including schools. Now we need to make sure the House doesn’t follow suit. Contact your state rep and tell them to vote NO on SB 240!

State Matters

Here is a sample of what’s going on around the country. You can share news from your state with [email protected] for possible inclusion in a future newsletter.

Arizona - State legislature passes anti-trans birth certificate bill. HB 2438 passed the House on a party-line vote on April 28th, having passed the Senate earlier in the session. The bill, which would ban updating the gender marker on a birth certificate, now heads to the Governor. 

California - LGBTQ+ Civil Rights monument unveiled in Palm Springs. The Pride Monument was installed at the Thompson Hotel's Whiskey Park Terrace. 

Georgia - Governor Kemp signs anti-trans athlete and facilities ban into law. SB 1, which bans trans youth from participating in school sports from kindergarten through college and bans them from bathrooms and locker rooms aligning with their gender identity at school athletic events, was signed into law at a ceremony on April 28th. 

Ohio -  Supreme Court rules that anti-trans healthcare ban can be enforced. The State Supreme Court ruled that HB 68, which bans medically necessary care for trans and nonbinary youth, can be enforced while the trial determining the law’s constitutionality continues. Enforcement of the law had been blocked since March. 

City of Portsmouth tables resolution designating the city as a sanctuary for the LGBTQ+ community. The resolution will be considered again at the next city council meeting.

Federal Matters

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.

Equality Act reintroduced. The April 29th reintroduction of the PFLAG-endorsed bill, which would ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in housing, employment, public accommodations, and other areas, was marked by a press conference attended by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY.), House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (CA-11), Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Mark Takano (CA-39), and others. 

Trump administration releases 400-page review of gender dysphoria treatment for youths without revealing author. The US Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday released a review of treatment for gender dysphoria in children, but did not disclose who authored or reviewed the report. The report has been denounced by major mainstream medical associations, whose statements can be found alongside PFLAG National’s statement on our website.

Trump Administration plans to eliminate National Suicide Hotline services for LGBTQ+ youth. The 988 hotline, which was launched in 2022, includes counselors who work with specific at-risk populations, including LGBTQ+ youth. This LGBTQ+ youth service received an average of 2,100 calls daily in February. The draft budget for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would eliminate the LGBTQ+ Youth service for the hotline. 

Pentagon to resume providing gender-affirming care to trans servicemembers. The Defense Department is resuming provision of gender-affirming care under the medical policy established by former President Biden after federal courts found Defense Secretary Hegseth’s attempt to deny servicemembers this care to be unconstitutional on March 18th and March 24th. The Administration is appealing the ruling but cannot enforce their restrictive policy while the case continues to work its way through the courts. 

Attorney General Pam Bondi announces plans for investigations into gender-affirming care providers. The Attorney General issued a memo in which she announced that the Justice Department (DOJ) would use several existing laws, including laws banning false claims about off-label use for drugs and laws banning female genital mutilation (FGM), to investigate providers of gender-affirming care to minors, as well as drug manufacturers and distributors.  

DOJ cutting grants to organizations that aid victims of crime. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on April 24th recommended to the Department of Justice (DOJ) cuts to hundreds of grants, including those that go to organizations which assist crime victims. However, Attorney General Pam Bondi began acting on the recommendations and then reversed some of those cuts within 24 hours of them being announced.

Court Matters

Supreme Court hears oral arguments in religious charter school case. The case was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court from the Oklahoma Supreme Court, which found that providing tax dollars to an explicitly Catholic charter school would unconstitutionally entangle church and state. 

Second lawsuit filed against anti-trans passport policy. Lambda Legal filed the lawsuit on behalf of seven trans and nonbinary individuals impacted by the policy, which bans “X” gender markers on passports and makes it very difficult for passport gender markers to reflect anything other than sex assigned at birth. 

Former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis loses appeal in same-sex marriage license refusal case. Davis was successfully sued by a same-sex couple to whom she refused to grant a Kentucky marriage license in 2015, but has been seeking to overturn that suit. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals denied her request to rehear her case; Davis is still required to pay damages to the couple. 

Federal judge rules that Catholic charity discriminated against gay employee. Catholic Relief Services must pay $60,000 to a gay, married employee after a judge found that the charity had illegally discriminated against the employee by refusing to provide spousal benefits to the employee’s husband.

Global Matters

Poland - Last “LGBT-free zone” abolished. In 2019, about 100 municipalities in Poland declared themselves “LGBT-free zones.” After the European Commission withheld funding from Poland over the existence of these zones along with other pushback from both within and outside of Poland, these municipalities began repealing their “LGBT-free” ordinances. Łańcut, in Southeast Poland, repealed its ordinance on April 24th, erasing the last of these “LGBT-free zones.” 

United Kingdom -  Openly trans former judge plans to challenge Supreme Court ruling on gender at the European Court of Human Rights. Dr. Victoria McCloud, the only openly trans judge in UK history, announced plans to challenge the Supreme Court’s ruling defining a “woman” as someone assigned female at birth. McCloud and other trans rights activists plan to go to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to seek a declaration that the actions of the UK government and Supreme Court judgement "violate [their] fundamental human rights".

Media Matters

Robert de Niro’s daughter comes out as trans. Airyn de Niro stated that she hoped to emulate her mother as she embraces her trans identity.

AIDS activist Nanette Kazaoka dies at 83. Kazaoka was an activist for 35 years, being a member of ACT UP, and participated in a number of noteworthy protests to garner attention for the fight against AIDS.

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