Eight prominent LGBTQ+ community, health and HIV nonprofit organizations sued the Trump Administration on Thursday for his recent spate of anti-transgender executive orders.
Among his flurry of orders issued since he took office on Jan. 20, Trump has blocked healthcare for trans youth and prevented trans women from participating in sports.
Dr. Carla Smith, CEO of The Center in New York City, said in a letter obtained by TheWrap that these orders “seek to dehumanize and erase transgender people” as well as defund organizations that serve the LGBTQ community.
The lawsuit was filed by Lambda Legal and challenges three executive orders that, as Smith’s letter states, “seek to erase transgender people from public life, terminate equity-related grants, and forbid federally-funded entities from engaging in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility programs or from recognizing the existence of transgender people.”