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Federal Court invalidates anti-trans directive by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary RFK, Jr. U.S. District Court Judge Mustafa T Kasubhai formally vacated the December 2025 "Kennedy Declaration,” writing that HHS "lack[s] the authority to unilaterally establish standards of care that supersede professionally recognized standards of care," and enjoined HHS from acting on "any materially similar policy which supersedes or purports to supersede" such standards of care. Supreme Court to hear case regarding Catholic school’s anti-LGBTQ+ admissions policy. The Supreme Court agreed to hear a Colorado case where a Catholic preschool is challenging its exclusion from a state-funded universal pre-k program. The preschool argues that its exclusion from Colorado’s universal pre-k program is a form of religious discrimination, because Colorado will not provide it with an exemption from rules that would require it to admit everyone – including LGBTQ children and children with LGBTQ parents – in order for the school to be eligible to participate in the program. Supreme Court declines to hear case regarding forced outing. The decision not to hear the case leave in place a lower court ruling which held that schools should have discretion over whether they choose to out trans kids to their parents. Federal appeals court allows Trump Administration to transfer 18 incarcerated transgender women to men’s prisons. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that the Federal Bureau of Prisons' directive to transfer these women, in line with a 2025 executive order, was "the product of deliberate, individualized determinations rather than happenstance." This ends a temporary injunction put in place by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth last year; Judge Lamberth has held that housing transgender women in men's prisons violated their constitutional rights by placing them at substantial risk of harm. Federal appeals court upholds Indiana’s “Don’t Say Gay” law. HB 1068, which was signed into law in 2023, bans “instruction” on human sexuality for students from kindergarten through third grade. In June 2023, the ACLU of Indiana sued on behalf of Kayla Smiley, an educator in the state, arguing the law was too vague in defining “instruction” and “human sexuality” and therefore would have a chilling effect on a teacher’s right to express support for the LGBTQ+ community in their private life. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that the concerns about enforcement weren't substantial enough to invalidate the entire law and that, should the law be interpreted too broadly, those instances could be adjudicated individually.
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