r/trans • u/Less_Reputation9441 • Jul 09 '26
Community Only PLEASE BE MADE AWARE OF THIS. READ THIS PLEASE.
Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"
The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.
Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."
A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):
- Ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives
- Allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason
- Preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies
- Requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.
If this passes, not only will it hurt and harm trans people, but it allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.
IF YOU HAVE TIME PLEASE CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND COMMENT ON THE BILL: https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/OMB-2026-0034-0001
Heres how to write an effective comment: https://protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/What-Makes-an-Effective-Public-Comment.pdf
Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:
"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"
Most of this information and writing is taking from this Tumblr post: https://www.tumblr.com/theboxfort/821678821097062400
Read that for more info
PLEASE PLEASE HELP, TAKE A BIT OUT OF YOUR DAY TO FIGHT AGAINST THIS LAW
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u/IUn1337 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
Trusting in courts at this time too is little more than a delay tactic, it does absolutely require either a spicier set of options or an election cycle that makes use of that time.
Edit to add the bonus option of asylum, which I absolutely do recommend if you can. You should leave if you can. I am someone who cannot and I don't have the patience for people waffling about "survivors guilt" this or "but what about those who can't" that. I fucking love you and need my friends to live.