Overview

• The State Department now issues passports with gender entries matching birth assignments and no third-option following a presidential directive
• Trans activist Elijah Nicholas is co-leading a march from the Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol as WorldPride’s final protest for LGBTQ+ rights
• The administration has also moved to bar transgender individuals from military service and prohibit their participation in women’s sports at public institutions
• Sharon Horne of UMass Boston links the administration’s policies to rising depression and anxiety reports among transgender and non-binary people
• A 2020 Lancet Public Health analysis shows that congruent identity documents lower severe psychological distress and suicidal thoughts in trans communities