QM Weekly Update for August 3, 2025
🏳️⚧️📜 On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a memo with guidance that calls for all recipients of federal funds to ban trans people from using bathrooms, locker rooms, and dorms that don't match their sex assigned at birth.
More information:
"Trump's Justice Department Issues Memo Axing DEI Even Further"
Trump's Justice Department Issues Memo Axing DEI Even Further | HuffPost Latest News
Attorney General Pam Bondi's latest guidance takes aim at race- and gender-based programs and policies within universities, local governments and employers nationwide.
"Guidance for Recipients of Federal Funding Regarding Unlawful Discrimination"
🏳️⚧️🏃🏼♀ On Wednesday, World Athletics announced that, starting in September, any female athlete desiring to participate in an event, including the World Championships, must undergo genetic testing to prove that her "biological sex" is female.
More information:
"World Athletics mandates genetic testing for female athletes to determine biological sex"
Female athletes will undergo genetic testing for competition
World Athletics is introducing SRY gene test for athletes wishing to compete as females. The changes take effect in September.
"World Athletics mandates gene tests for female category eligibility"
World Athletics mandates gene tests for female category eligibility | Athletics | The Guardian
Athletes will be eligible to compete in the female category for world-ranking competitions such as the world championships only if they clear a one-time gene test
"World Athletics introduces SRY gene test for athletes wishing to compete in the female category"
World Athletics introduces SRY gene test for athletes wishing to compete in the female category | PRESS-RELEASES | World Athletics
The World Athletics Council has approved new regulations concerning eligibility conditions to compete in the female category for world ranking competitions
🏳️⚧️🏛️🎓 On Wednesday, Brown University agreed to anti-trans bathroom policies and gender-affirming care bans in order to have $500 million in federal funding restored.
More information:
"Brown University agrees to Trump’s anti-trans demands as part of deal to restore funding"
Brown University agrees to Trump's anti-trans demands as part of deal to restore funding - LGBTQ Nation
Brown will get millions in federal funding restored in exchange for banning trans women from bathrooms and other measures.
🏳️🌈✊🏿 On Wednesday, several businesses in Lansing’s Old Town were vandalized with racist, xenophobic, and homophobic graffiti and Nazi symbols. The incident is being investigated as a hate crime.
More information:
"Video shows attack on store in Lansing's Old Town; police investigating as hate crime"
Lansing police investigate Old Town vandalism as potential hate crime
Lansing police are investigating vandalism to several Old Town buildings that included Nazi symbols as a potential hate crime.
🏳️⚧️⚖️ On Thursday, a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order that blocks anti-LGBTQ provisions in federal grants to organizations serving the unhoused, LGBTQ+ youth, and survivors of sexual and domestic violence.
More information:
"Court blocks Trump admin's anti-LGBTQ+ restrictions on grants for domestic violence and homeless shelters"
🏳️⚧️⚕️⚖️ On Friday, sixteen states, including Michigan, sued the federal government to stop its use of intimidation tactics to get health care providers to abandon providing gender-affirming care for trans youth.
More information:
"States sue Trump, saying he is intimidating hospitals over gender-affirming care for youth"
States accuse Trump of intimidating hospitals to drop gender-affirming care | AP News
Democratic attorneys general and others are accusing President Donald Trump of intimidating hospitals into dropping gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
"BREAKING: Over a dozen states sue to protect gender-affirming care from federal investigations"
States sue Trump to protect gender-affirming care | Advocate.com
<p>A new lawsuit argues that the Trump administration is pursuing a backdoor strategy to restrict gender-affirming care nationally, while skirting state laws.</p>
Court filing
https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/court-filings/commonwealth-of-massachusetts-et-al-v-donald-j-trump-et-al-complaint-2025.pdf
On July 25, a federal judge blocked President Trump's policy banning Medicaid funding from going to abortion providers like Planned Parenthood, which would have jeopardized the finances of the organization, which provides gender-affirming care.
More information:
"Federal judge blocks Trump's ban on Medicaid Funding for Planned Parenthood"
🏳️⚧️⚖️🏫 On July 25, the U.S. Department of Education ordered five Virginia school districts to immediately end their trans-inclusive bathroom policies allowing students to use bathroom facilities that align with their gender identity.
More information:
"Education Department orders 5 school districts to immediately end trans-inclusive bathroom policies"
