Overview

• U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar ruled that the administration cannot require grant recipients to halt programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion or to stop acknowledging transgender individuals.
• The decision safeguards funding for plaintiffs including the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Los Angeles LGBT Center and GLBT Historical Society, all of which receive CDC and other federal grants.
• Tigar wrote that the contested funding provisions reflected an effort to censor protected speech and to single out transgender communities for disfavored treatment.
• The preliminary injunction remains in effect as the case moves forward and government lawyers have signaled they will appeal the ruling.
• California Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a separate lawsuit challenging a Trump directive aimed at barring transgender children from school sports teams aligned with their gender identity.