Since the start of Donald Trumps second presidential term, Uncloseted Media has been checking in every 100 days to document each move in the administrations ongoing and relentless attack on the LGBTQ community. These last few months have continued the trend of each 100 days being worse than the last. Trump has weaponized the assassination of Charlie Kirk to put an even bigger target on trans Americans, and he has been testing out new rhetoric, claiming that Democrats want transgender for everybody, a line hes now used so many times that we couldnt include every reference. With that in mind, heres the administrations complete track record on LGBTQ issues from days 201-300.Aug. 9, 2025Trumpannouncesthat he isnominatingDepartment of State spokesperson Tammy Bruce as deputy ambassador to the United Nations. Bruce, an out lesbian, opposes transgender health care for minors and claims LGBTQ Pride commercials really do damage to the gay and lesbian community.Aug. 11, 2025During a public safety press conference, Trumporders the National Guardto deploy in Washington, D.C., claiming it will curb crime despite itbeing down. While doing so, he attacks the LGBTQ community,saying, Thats why [Democrats] want men playing in womens sports, thats why they want transgender for everybody. Everybody, transgender. Insights for the LGBTQ+ community Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more. Subscribe to our Newsletter today Aug. 12, 2025Trumporders a reviewof the Smithsonian Institution to determine whether it aligns with his administrations standards. Hetargets the museums exhibitson transgender athletes,ballroom dragand the evolution of LGBTQ identities, as well as a painting of a Black trans statue of Libertythat was later withdrawn by the artistin the National Portrait Library.The same day, the State Department releases a revised 2024 Human Rights Report thatomits referencesto LGBTQ people and erases mentions of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The report also removes critiques of governments for mistreating LGBTQ communities. For example, itremovesinformation about Hungarysanti-LGBTQ lawsthatencourage citizensto report their LGBTQ neighbors and thatban depictionsof homosexuality or gender transition in schools or the media. Aug. 14, 2025The Department of Education (DOE)launches an investigationinto four Kansas school districts, accusing them of violating Title IX as they permit students to participate in sports and access intimate facilities based on gender identity rather than biological sex. Aug. 15, 2025Budget cuts stemming from Trumps federal workforce reductionseliminate$600,000 in funding for the D.C. Office of LGBTQ Affairs for 2026.The same day, the administrationannounces planstoeliminate gender-affirming carefrom the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program starting in 2026, cutting coverage for over 8 million people. The policy would block access to hormones and surgeries for federal workers and their families. Aug. 20, 2025The media reports on court filings that reveal that the Department of Justice (DOJ)issued subpoenasto hospitals for private medical records of LGBTQ patients 18 and younger. The DOJ requests billing data, communication with drug manufacturers, Social Security numbers and recordings from providers who treat gender non-conforming minors. Doctors across the country report threats and fear government retaliation.The subpoena is a breathtakingly invasive government overreach. Its specifically and strategically designed to intimidate health care providers and health care institutions into abandoning their patients, says Jennifer L. Levi, senior director of transgender and queer rights at GLAD law, an LGBTQ legal group and civil rights organization.Aug. 21, 2025The White Housepublishes a listof 20 Smithsonian exhibits deemed objectionable, including many that highlight LGBTQ and non-white artists.Targeted worksinclude the American History Museums LGBTQ+ exhibit that explores queer and disabled identities, as well as a Title IX anniversary display featuring transgender athletes.The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)cuts $12 millionof federal funding for Californias Personal Responsibility Education Program, which provides sex education to teens. HHS officials cite thestates refusalto remove lessons on so-called radical gender ideology.The Supreme Court (SCOTUS)upholds an executive orderwhich directs the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to cut more than1,700 grants, nearly 200 of which provide funding for HIV/AIDS.The New York Times reportsthat the Trump administration will withhold more than half of the congressionally appropriated $6 billion for the U.S. Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.Experts saythe cuts threaten HIV/AIDS services worldwide, as the Kenyan HIV/AIDs network NEPHAK announces layoffs and closures of health centers. Aug. 23, 2025ICEviolently detainsBrazilian trans woman Alice Correia Barbosa, later announcing plans to deport her. Aug. 26, 2025The administration warns U.S. states and territories that they willlose federal fundingfor sex education unless they remove all references to gender ideology. Forty-six states and D.C. receive letters ordering the purge of all gender ideology content within 60 days.Aug. 28, 2025The DOEordersDenver Public Schools to replace gender-neutral restrooms with sex-designated facilities within 10 days. If they dont comply, the DOE suggests they willlose federal funding.HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.tells Fox Newsthat the HHS is studying whether gender-transition medications or antidepressants cause violence, citing a church shooting in Minneapolis by a transgender woman. Research showsno such connection, andnearly allmass shootings are committed by cisgender men. Aug. 29, 2025In aninterviewwith the Daily Caller, a right-wing opinion website, Trump baselessly claims that banning transgender troops improves military readiness. He falsely links transgender identities to violence and repeats debunked claims about gender-affirming care. Sept. 2, 2025The Harvard Crimson posts Dean David J. Demings announcement that the university willno longer hostprogramming for specific races or identity groups, signaling deeper cuts to diversity efforts. The move follows Trumpsdemandsthat Harvard dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs or lose billions in federal research funding. Since Trump took office, Harvard hasremovedDEI language, closed identity-based offices and folded LGBTQ, womens and minority programs into a single Harvard Foundation.On a podcast with former George W. Bush special assistant Scott Jennings, Trumpconflates crimewith support for transgender people, saying Democrats are fighting for criminals, just like they fought for transgender for everybody all these crazy things. Sept. 3, 2025After a settlement requiring the administration to restore health and science information to federal websites, HHS officials tell theAssociated Pressthat they remain committed to its mission of removing radical gender and DEI ideology from federal programs. The reversal follows an executive order meant to eliminate the term gender from policies and delete public health pages about pregnancy risks, opioid addiction and AIDS.During an Oval Office meeting with Polish President Karol Nawrocki, Trump onceagainsays Democrats gave us things like men playing in womens sports, open borders for everybody, transgender for everybody.Sept. 4, 2025In response to the Minneapolis mass shooting, CNN reports that the DOJ isconsidering restrictingtransgender Americans Second Amendment rights by building off of Trumpstrans military banand using it as justification for a firearm bansomething that would only be possible bydeclaring themmentally defective. The proposal sparks backlash from the National Rifle Association, who says in a statement that they will not support sweeping gun bans that arbitrarily strip law-abiding citizens of their Second Amendment rights without due process.A Maine principals groupchallengesa subpoena from the DOJ that seeks athletic rosters statewide as part of the administrations effort to ban transgender students from sports. The group argues the request would expose private student information unrelated to the case.A federal appeals panelupholds an injunctionblocking the Trump administrations plan to deny accurate passports to transgender and nonbinary Americans. Judges rule the government failed to show how inclusive passports violate federal law. In its decision,the court writes:Based on the named plaintiffs affidavits and the expert declarations submitted by the plaintiffs, the district court made factual findings that the plaintiffs will suffer a variety of immediate and irreparable harms from the present enforcement of the challenged policy, including a greater risk of experiencing harassment and violence while traveling abroad. Sept. 5, 2025CNNuncovers yearsof homophobic and misogynisticpostsby E.J. Antoni, Trumps nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Antoni, an economist at theHeritage Foundation, contributor toProject 2025and a bystander on Jan. 6, has repeatedly mocked LGBTQ people and journalists andappears to have been running an X account wherehe posted that there is only one sexual orientation everything else is a disorientation. The administration would withdraw his nomination Sept. 30. Sept. 8, 2025Three military familiessuethe Department of Defense after the Trump administrations ban on transgender health care. This is a sweeping reversal of military health policy and a betrayal of military families who have sacrificed for our country, says Sarah Austin, staff attorney at GLAD Law.Speaking to theReligious Liberty Commission, Trump rambles, On day one of my administration, I signed an executive order to slash federal funding for any school that pushes transgender insanity on our youth. He goes on tofalsely claimthat some states can force children to transition without the parents knowing.Sept. 9, 2025A federal judgeblocksthe administrations attempt to subpoena medical records of transgender minors at Boston Childrens Hospital. The court finds that:The Administration has been explicit about its disapproval of the transgender community and its aim to end GAC [gender-affirming care]. It is abundantly clear that the true purpose of issuing the subpoena is to interfere with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts right to protect GAC within its borders, to harass and intimidate BCH to stop providing such care, and to dissuade patients from seeking such care. Sept. 11, 2025The Wall Street Journalpublishesa leaked Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives memo whichfalsely claimsthat shell casings found near the scene of Kirks murder were engravedwith expressions oftransgender and anti-fascist ideology. Sept. 12, 2025The DOJremoves a studyfrom its website showing that far-right extremists have killed more Americans than any other domestic terrorist group. Thearchived reportdisappears two days afteranti-LGBTQconservative Charlie Kirk is assassinated.Sept. 15, 2025In apress conference, Trump says he would have no problem removing Pride flags from Washington, D.C. streets after Brian Glenn, a far-right content creator, says that a lot of people are very threatened by this flag. Glenn attempts to paint the Progress Pride flag as the transtifa flag and suggests that if you can label them a domestic terrorist group, in all reality, you could take that flag down.Trump acknowledges legal limits under free speech law but adds, I think you probably could. Again, youll be sued, and its okay. Ive been sued before a couple of times. Sept. 16, 2025UCLA faculty and workers unionssuethe Trump administration for freezing $584 million in research grants, arguing it violates academic freedom and constitutional rights. The freeze follows a DOJ letter demanding UCLA end gender-affirming care for minors, ban transgender athletes and align policies with anti-DEI directives. Sept. 17, 2025The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issues new priorities that declare that biological sex is unchangeable and that pledge to protect children by deprioritizing programs offering transgender health care.Sept. 18, 2025Two national security officials tell independent journalist Ken Klippenstein that the FBI isweighingwhether to classify transgender people as a sub-category within its new domestic extremism threat model that was originally used toclassifyJan. 6 rioters. Sept. 19, 2025The Trump administrationpetitions SCOTUSto reinstate itspassport rulerequiring sex designations match birth certificates. A lower court hadblockedthe policy, allowing transgender and nonbinary Americans to use X markers or gender-aligned IDs.A federal judgeblocksthe administration from withholding the National Endowment for the Arts grants from arts organizations it deems to be promoting so-called gender ideology, ruling the policy unlawfully punishes artistic expression.It is reported that the DOEthreatens to withhold$15 million from New York City magnet schools unless they repeal trans-inclusive policies. Sept. 20, 2025The CDCremoves or restrictsnearly two dozen webpages, many related to LGBTQ health and equity. Deleted pages include About Shigella Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men, STI Information for Transgender and Gender Diverse Persons and others addressing asexuality, disabilities and race-based health inequities. Sept. 22, 2025White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claims the administration isinvestigatingwhy transgender people are turning to domestic terrorism, despite no evidence of this. She calls anyone denying the false link willfully ignorant. Transgender people arefour times more likelyto be victims of violent crime.Sept. 23, 2025Trumpcancels a budget meetingandblamesa potential government shutdown on Democrats support for trans-inclusive policies. Sept. 24, 2025The administrationwithholds$1.25 million in congressionally approved funds from 20 projects serving LGBTQ and underrepresented communities. The grants include efforts to document queer historic sites and to nominate the residence ofBayard Rustin, a gay civil rights advocate, socialist and adviser to Martin Luther King Jr., as a National Historic Landmark.Klippensteinreleasesexcerpts from recent federal threat assessment reports that deliberately exclude trans people, referring repeatedly to threats against the LGB+ Community. Sept. 25, 2025Trump signs a presidential memopledging to disrupt and dismantle entire networks of criminal activity, blaming extremism on migration, race, and gender and proclaiming there is hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality. The memo has no legal weight and does not alter First Amendment protections. Week of Sept. 29-Oct. 3, 2025Canadaupdatesits U.S. travel advisory, warning citizens with X gender-marker passports that entry may be denied.While the Government of Canada issues passports with a X gender identifier, it cannot guarantee your entry or transit through other countries.Oct. 1, 2025FBI Director Kash Patelfires a traineefor displaying a Pride flag on his desk, labeling it an improper political message. The dismissal follows reports that pro-Trump appointees are combing internal FBI files to identify LGBTQ employees. Oct. 3, 2025Education Secretary Linda McMahon sends a9-page proposaltonine universitiesthat demands they ban trans-inclusive facilities, define sex by reproductive function and limit race, gender, or identity factors in admissions. It alsoordersschools to revise their governance structures by abolishing institutional units that purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas. Oct. 7, 2025DOJ attorney Hashim MooppansuggestsSCOTUS should overturn Colorados ban on conversion therapy for minors, saying, There is ongoing irreparable harm for a Colorado counselor who is challenging the ban. Conversion practices remain illegal in 27 states and arecondemnedby every major medical association.During an Oval Office meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carneywho has a nonbinary childTrumpmakes anti-trans remarkswhile discussing trade. We have strong borders. We have no men in womens sports. Were not going to take your child away and change the sex of your child.Oct. 10, 2025The White Houseannouncessweeping layoffsto the DOE, cutting roles that oversee civil rights, grants and disability services. LGBTQ youth,28% of whomhave faced housing insecurity, will lose key protections. A federal judge temporarilyblocksthe layoffs on Oct. 15.The White House alsolays offmore than 1,100 employees at the HHS. The Office of Population Affairs, which administered Title X family-planning networks, teen-pregnancy prevention and LGBTQ health initiatives, is eliminated entirely. Adrian Shanker, former deputy assistant secretary for health policy and senior adviser on LGBTQ health tells The Advocate, These are the programs that centered reproductive and queer health, and now theyre gone. [This] leaves us more vulnerable to health inequities and worsened health outcomes. Oct. 24, 2025The White House changes its Major Events Timeline to include that Joe Biden established Trans Day of Visibility on Easter Sunday in 2024, which isnot true. Oct. 25, 2025The United States Department of Agriculturepoststhe following notice:Senate Democrats have now voted 12 times to not fund the food stamp program, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Bottom line, the well has run dry.At this time, there will be no benefits issued November 01. We are approaching an inflection point for Senate Democrats. They can continue to hold out for healthcare for illegal aliens and gender mutilation procedures or reopen the government so mothers, babies, and the most vulnerable among us can receive critical nutrition assistance.Oct. 30, 2025NPRsharesthe draft text of two proposed rules by HHS that would heavily restrict trans health care. One prohibits Medicaid reimbursement for gender-affirming care for people under 18 and another blocks all Medicare and Medicaid funding for hospitals that provide the care to minors. Nov. 2, 2025In aninterviewwith 60 Minutes Norah ODonnell, Trump repeatedly misgenders trans women and accuses Democrats of promoting transgender for everybody. Nov. 6, 2025SCOTUS grants the Trump administrations request toput a holdon federal rulings in Massachusetts. These rulings would have required the State Department to issue correct passports to transgender and nonbinary Americans. In her dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson writes the majority once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification. Because I cannot acquiesce to this pointless but painful perversion of our equitable discretion, I respectfully dissent.Additional reporting by Hope PisoniSubscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.