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Tracking Trump

Lambda Legal is fighting back in the courts for LGBTQ+ people and everyone living with HIV.

  • 5open cases against the Trump administration, focusing on trans rights, DEI, and more below.
  • 2preliminary injunctions granted in current cases regarding the military and health care.
  • 86%success rate against the last Trump administration

Last updated: April 2, 2025

Spotlight Cases

Case Name

PFLAG v. Trump

State

United States

Status

Open

Tags

Health CareTrans RightsYouth

Summary

Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the ACLU of Maryland, joined by pro-bono co-counsel Hogan Lovells and Jenner & Block, filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of PFLAG, GLMA, transgender young adults, and families with transgender youth challenging an executive order from the Trump administration attempting to shut down access to necessary medical...
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Case Name

Shilling v. Trump

State

United States

Status

Open

Tags

Trans RightsEmploymentMilitary

Summary

Lambda Legal and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s ban on military service by transgender people.  
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Case Name

San Francisco AIDS Foundation v. Trump

State

United States

Status

Open

Tags

Trans RightsHIV

Summary

Multiple LGBTQ, Health, and HIV organizations sued the Trump Administration represented by Lambda Legal challenging three executive orders that together seek to erase transgender people from public life, defund the organizations that provide them with life-saving services, and terminate equity-related grants essential to the health and lives of other underserved communities, including communities of color,...
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Case Name

Schlacter et. al. v. U.S. Department of State et. al.

State

United States

Status

Open

Tags

Trans RightsIdentity Documents

Summary

Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit on behalf of seven transgender U.S. citizens, including one who is nonbinary, challenging the Trump administration’s policy denying them U.S. passports with accurate sex designations. The discriminatory passport policy exposes transgender U.S. citizens to harassment, abuse, and discrimination, in some cases endangering them abroad or preventing them from traveling, by...
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State
Case Name
Court
Issue(s)
Status

United States

Schlacter v. U.S. Department of State

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Trans RightsIdentity Documents

Open
Filed: (2025)

United States

San Francisco AIDS Foundation v. Trump

U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California

Trans RightsHIV

Open
Filed: (2025)

United States

National Urban League v. Trump

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Anti-LGBT PoliciesTrans Rights

Open
Filed: (2025)

United States

Shilling v. Trump

U.S. District Court-Western District of Washington

Trans RightsEmploymentMilitary

Open
Filed: (2025)

United States

PFLAG v. Trump

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Health CareTrans RightsYouth

Open
Filed: (2025)

United States

Mazon v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

Religious Exemptions

Closed
Filed: (2021)

United States

Immigration Equality v. DHS

United States District Court for the Northern District of California

Immigration and Asylum

Closed
Filed: (2020)

United States

The Diversity Center v. Trump

United States District Court Northern District of California

Racial Justice

Closed
Filed: (2020)

United States

California Tribal Families Coalition v. Azar

United States District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division

Youth in Out-of-Home Care

Closed
Filed: (2020)

United States

Whitman-Walker Clinic v. HHS

United States District Court for the District of Columbia

Health CareTrans Rights

Closed
Filed: (2020)

United States

Family Equality v. Azar

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

Health Care

Closed
Filed: (2020)

Virginia

Roe and Voe v. Austin

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

HIVEmployment

Closed
Filed: (2018)

Maryland

Deese & Doe v. Austin

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Northern Division

Anti-LGBT PoliciesHIV

Closed
Filed: (2018)

United States

Karnoski v. Trump

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Trans RightsMilitary

Closed
Filed: (2017)

New York

Lambda Legal v. U.S. Departments of Education and Justice

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Trans RightsStudents' Rights

Closed
Filed: (2017)

Our Issue Areas

Learn more about the different issues Lambda Legal focuses on in our fight for legal and lived equality for the LGBTQ+ community and everyone living with HIV.

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We know how to win

We successfully blocked multiple attacks on our communities during the first
Trump administration, and we are prepared to do so again. 

News

two silhouetted military service members saluting

May 6, 2025

Justice Denied: Supreme Court Allows Discriminatory Transgender Military Ban to Take Effect  

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Progress Pride Flag

May 2, 2025

Civil and Human Rights Organizations Continue to Fight Against Trump Administration’s Anti-Equity and Transgender Erasure Executive Orders Despite Denial of Preliminary Injunction

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May 1, 2025

Lambda Legal Responds to Trump’s HHS Report: A Biased Effort to Eradicate Medical Care for Children and Youth

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four United States passports laying on a wooden surface

April 25, 2025

Lambda Legal Files Lawsuit Against Trump Administration’s Discriminatory Passport Policy

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