QM Weekly Update for July 13, 2025
🏳️🌈🇺🇳 On Monday, the United Nations Human Rights Council voted to renew the mandate of an independent LGBTQ rights expert for another three years.
More information:
"UN council votes to keep researching abuses for LGBT people despite US U-turn"
"UN Human Rights Council extends LGBTQ rights expert’s mandate"
UN Human Rights Council extends LGBTQ rights expert's mandate
29 countries voted for resolution
🏳️⚧️⚕️⚖️ On Tuesday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that a conversion therapy ban be reinstated, classifying conversion therapy as unprofessional conduct for licensed mental health practitioners.
More information:
Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling reinstates conversion therapy ban"
Court ruling clears way for Wisconsin conversion therapy ban | Advocate.com
<p>LGBTQ+ youth in the state will be protected from this damaging and discredited intervention.</p>
🏳️⚧️⚕️🏛️ On Wednesday, the Department of Justice stated that they have subpoenaed 20 doctors and clinics as well as drug manufacturers for providing gender-affirming care to trans minors.
More information:
"Pam Bondi subpoenas doctors & clinics that provide trans health care"
Pam Bondi subpoenas doctors & clinics that provide trans health care - LGBTQ Nation
DOJ is also going after drug companies that manufacture transition-related medication.
🏳️⚧️⚕️🏛️ On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission invited a variety of anti-trans activists to a workshop focused on investigating “fraud and deception” in gender-affirming care.
More information:
"FTC hosts anti-trans workshop LGBTQ+ advocates call 'government-sponsored disinformation'"
FTC hosts anti-trans panel on gender-affirming care | Advocate.com
<p> “[Transgender lives have] been made a political and ideological issue,” Dr. Rachel Levine told The Advocate.</p>
"Trump’s FTC Lays the Groundwork to Charge GAC Providers with 'Fraud'"
🏳️⚧️💼🏛️ On July 1st, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission director stated that the agency would resume investigating some cases of anti-trans discrimination in hiring, promotion, and dismissal (but did not mention workplace harassment), after the agency had classified all anti-trans discrimination complaints as low-priority and dropped at least six lawsuits since President Trump took office.
More information:
"EEOC will consider trans discrimination cases after burying them for months"
EEOC will consider trans discrimination cases after burying them for months - LGBTQ Nation
Cases involving anti-trans workplace discrimination will now receive a heightened level of review from the office of acting EEOC chair Andrea Lucas.
🏳️⚧️🎓🏀 Starting this month, trans women are banned from competing in collegiate sports in Indiana, expanding the pre-existing ban on K-12 athletics for trans girls.
More information:
"Trans athletes can no longer play sports in Indiana starting this month"
