Overview

• The injunction bars the administration from enforcing orders that would cut federal funding for organizations promoting diversity, equity and inclusion or acknowledging transgender identities.
• Judge Tigar ruled that the executive branch cannot weaponize federal subsidies to suppress constitutionally protected speech or single out protected communities for disfavored treatment.
• The lawsuit was brought by health centers, LGBTQ+ services groups and the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society, all of whom said the orders undermined their missions.
• The San Francisco AIDS Foundation said its $1.3 million CDC grant for expanding sexual health services would have been jeopardized by the funding restrictions.
• The injunction will remain in effect while the legal challenge proceeds and the administration has indicated it plans to appeal.