"Trump Administration Cancels NYC Magnet School Funding Over Trans Student Policies" Trump Administration Cancels NYC Magnet School Funding Over Trans Student Policies

🏳️‍⚧️🏛️ On Thursday, trans rights protestors staged a "die-in" at the Michigan Capitol, protesting the ending of trans youth healthcare at Corewell and Michigan Medicine.

• More information:

  • "Trans youth protest at Michigan Capitol for gender care rights"

    • https://www.wlns.com/top-stories/trans-youth-protest-at-michigan-capitol-for-gender-care-rights/

🏳️‍⚧️🏛️ On Thursday, a survey was released that found that 52% of U.S. adults oppose lawmakers banning or restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth.

• More information:

  • "New Poll: Most Americans Oppose Bans on Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth"

    • https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-most-americans-oppose-bans

  • "More Americans see a future where gender-affirming care will be harder to access"

    • https://19thnews.org/2025/09/poll-gender-affirming-care-accessibility/

  • "The State of Our Nation: Gauging Americans’ political opinions in 2025"

    • https://19thnews.org/2025/09/polling-2025/

🏳️‍⚧️On Thursday, an independent journalist reported that the FBI is developing tools to target transgender activism, in partnership with the Heritage Foundation.

• "Republicans Push FBI To Designate Trans Advocacy As Violent Extremism. Inside The Project 2025 Organization's Proposal."

  • https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/republicans-push-fbi-to-designate

🏳️‍⚧️🪪⚖️ On Friday, the Trump administration requested the Supreme Court issue for an emergency stay to allow the ban on updating passport gender markers to go back into effect after it the ban had been struck down earlier by lower courts. The case now awaits a decision on the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket”.

• More information:

  • "Trump Files Emergency SCOTUS Motion Over Trans Passport Gender Markers; Decision Could Come Quickly"

    • https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trump-files-emergency-scotus-motion

  • "Trump files “emergency” Supreme Court appeal to unblock his transphobic passport policy"

    • https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/asks-supreme-court-to-unblock-his-transphobic-passport-policy/

  • "Trump admin asks Supreme Court to restore anti-trans passport policy"

    • https://www.advocate.com/news/trump-appeals-passports-supreme-court

🏳️‍⚧️🏫⚖️ On September 18th, a federal judge allowed a lawsuit to move forward against a Michigan school, in which parents claim their rights were violated by not being notified that their child used a different name and pronouns in school.

• More information:

  • "Case may decide if Michigan schools must tell parents of kids’ gender identity"

    • https://bridgemi.com/talent-education/case-may-decide-if-michigan-schools-must-tell-parents-of-kids-gender-identity/

🏳️‍⚧️🎭⚖️ On September 19th, a federal judge ruled in favor of four art and theater groups who sued after an executive order was signed instructing the National Endowment for the Arts to disfavor grant applications that "promote gender ideology.". The judge ruled that this order violated the artists’ First Amendment rights as well as the Administrative Procedure Act. 

• "Court Sides With ACLU And Queer Performers Over Federal Trans Funding Restrictions"

  • https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/courts-side-with-aclu-and-queer-performers

• "Federal judge rules against Trump administration’s anti-trans art censorship”

  • https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/federal-judge-rules-against-administrations-anti-trans-art-censorship/