QM Weekly Update for October 27, 2025
🏳️🌈🏫⚖️ On Monday, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction requiring five Department of Defense schools for military families to reinstate books and curricula that had been removed from classrooms and libraries for violating President Trump’s executive orders about DEI and “gender ideology.”
More information:
“Federal judge orders Pentagon to restore LGBTQ+ books, gender & diversity lessons in military schools”
Pentagon must restore LGBTQ+ lessons, books at DoDEA schools | Advocate.com
<p>Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and DoDEA Director Beth Schiavino-Narvaez to comply immediately.</p>
“Judge orders Defense Department to return books on race & gender to school shelves”
Judge orders Defense Department to return books on race & gender to school shelves - LGBTQ Nation
A judge sided with 12 students who sued for the right to access age-appropriate books on the topics.
🏳️⚧️🏫⚖️ On Monday, a federal judge stated that she intends to issue a preliminary injunction to stop the Trump administration from withholding sex education grant funds from sixteen states, including Michigan, for refusing to remove references to gender identity and trans existence from sex ed program materials.
More information:
“Federal Judge Rules In Favor Of Public Schools In 16 States That Refused To Comply With Trump’s Trans Ban”
“Judge to block enforcement of administration’s ‘don’t say trans’ school rule”
Judge to block enforcement of administration's "don't say trans" school rule - LGBTQ Nation
The HHS threatened to block federal funds to schools that mention trans people. A judge is shutting that down.
“US judge to block Trump directive to erase ‘gender ideology’ from state sex education”
🏳️⚧️🩸 On Monday, a study was published that found that trans’ women’s blood proteins resemble that of a cis female’s after six months on gender-affirming hormone therapy/hormone replacement therapy.
More information:
“Study Finds Trans Women’s Blood Proteins Resemble Cis Women’s After 6 Months on HRT”
Trans powerlifter wins state supreme court victory in discrimination suit - LGBTQ Nation
USA Powerlifting tried to argue that they aren't discriminating against trans women, just women assigned male at birth. The judges didn't buy it.
“Plasma proteome adaptations during feminizing gender-affirming hormone therapy”
Plasma proteome adaptations during feminizing gender-affirming hormone therapy | Nature Medicine
Researchers analyzed 5,279 plasma proteins in 40 people undergoing feminizing gender-affirming hormone therapy over 6 months, revealing significant changes in 299 proteins. Such changes could have implications for reproductive capacity, immune regulation and long-term health.
🏳️🌈🏛️ On Wednesday night, in an LGBTQ+ town hall in downtown Lansing, Lansing-area lawmakers discussed federal attacks on gender-affirming care for trans minors, giving minors access to sex education, the GOP’s attacks on trans people, and fears of conversion therapy bans being overturned.
More information:
“Lansing-area lawmakers discuss future priorities, emphasize community support in LGBTQ+ town hall”
🏳️⚧️🏋🏻♀️⚖️ On Wednesday, the Minnesota Supreme Court sided with a trans woman powerlifter, stating that USA Powerlifting violated the Minnesota Human Rights Act by banning her and other trans women from women’s powerlifting competitions.
More information:
“Trans Powerlifter JayCee Cooper Wins Big in Minnesota Supreme Court Discrimination Case”
Trans Powerlifter JayCee Cooper Wins Big in Minnesota Supreme Court Discrimination Case | Them
The policy “assumes that every transgender woman has a competitive advantage in the women’s division," the court found.
“Trans powerlifter wins state supreme court victory in discrimination suit”
Trans powerlifter wins state supreme court victory in discrimination suit - LGBTQ Nation
USA Powerlifting tried to argue that they aren't discriminating against trans women, just women assigned male at birth. The judges didn't buy it.
“Minnesota Supreme Court rules USA Powerlifting’s ban on trans women is discrimination”
MN Supreme Court rules in favor of trans woman USAPL banned | Advocate.com
<p>JayCee Cooper, a trans woman banned from women's powerlifting contests, has won her case at the Minnesota Supreme Court.</p>
🏳️🌈📊 According to a report released on Monday, there has been an increase in anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes in the U.S. and Europe from 2020 to 2025, particularly for trans and gender-nonconforming people.
More information:
“Anti-LGBTQ+ hate is rising in Western nations both on & offline”
Anti-LGBTQ+ hate is rising in Western nations both on & offline - LGBTQ Nation
Researchers frame the increase as backlash to twenty years of positive progress.
“Anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes have risen around the world since 2020: report”
Anti-LGBTQ hate crimes have risen globally since 2020: study | Advocate.com
<p>Anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes have increased in the past five years across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe.</p>
“Investigation | Five-year overview of the online and offline anti-LGBTQ+ landscape”