On January 20, 2025 Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government”, which directly targets transgender people by taking away their legal protections, and ordering trans women who are incarcerated in federal prisons to be unlawfully transferred to men’s facilities and be denied medically necessary health care.  

On February 10, 2025, NCLR, GLAD Law, and Lowenstein Sandler LLP filed a challenge to this executive order on behalf of a transgender woman who is currently incarcerated, who has since been joined by four more transgender women who have joined the lawsuit. On March 3, 2025, the court granted a Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction, blocking the enforcement of the law against our plaintiffs. Defendants have appealed this order to the D.C. Circuit, and the case remains ongoing in both the district court and appellate court.