QM Weekly Update for March 30, 2026
🏳️🌈🎒 A study released earlier this month found that in the first year and a half of high school, cisgender heterosexual students experienced a small increase in positive attitudes towards their LGBTQ+ peers, and this change in attitudes was associated with improvements in social well-being.
More information:
“The Development of LGBTQ Other Group Orientation and Its Relation to Psychological and Social Well-Being Among Cisgender Heterosexual Adolescents”
🏳️⚧️🥇 On Thursday, the International Olympic Committee released a new policy banning trans women from participation in all women’s events at the Olympic games and any other IOC event, and instituting DNA sex testing to determine eligibility in the women’s category.
More information:
“Olympics cave to Trump, banning transgender women from competition”
Olympics ban transgender women starting in Los Angeles | Advocate.com
The new rules apply for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
“IOC Officially Bans Trans Women From Competing in Olympic Female Events”
IOC Officially Bans Trans Women From Competing in Olympic Female Events | Them
The new ban aligns the IOC with the Trump administration’s policy goals ahead of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.
🏳️⚧️🇺🇳 Delegates at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women recently voted to block consideration of a proposal by the United States to adopt a definition of gender as binary and based on assigned sex at birth.
More information:
“United Nations rejects U.S. effort to erase trans women: ‘It stops here’”
United Nations rejects U.S. effort to erase trans women: "It stops here" - LGBTQ Nation
One advocate accused the U.S. of being “willing to lie” to “push forward their own gender ideology onto people in the U.N. system."
🏳️⚧️ ⚕️On Thursday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission upheld a 2015 policy allowing health insurers to limit gender-affirming care coverage for federal workers.
More information:
“EEOC upholds restrictions on gender-affirming care coverage for federal workers”
EEOC Decision
https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2026-03/0120172750%200120172751%202020000643%202021005019%20decision_Redacted_0.pdf
🏳️⚧️⚕️📰 This week, the American Medical Association confirmed that their policy continues to support gender-affirming care as medically necessary, after confusion emerged following an unclear response to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons’ recent statement citing the Trump administration’s HHS report to recommend that gender-affirming surgeries for trans youth be delayed until age 19.
“AMA Board Newsletter – March 2026”