Judge to block enforcement of administration's "don't say trans" school rulehttps://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/judge-to-block-enforcement-of-administrations-dont-say-trans-school-rule/ 🔗Faefyx Collington (21 Oct 2025)
A federal judge has announced that she plans to file an injunction for 16 states and D.C. to block the administration's efforts to force the states to remove all references to trans and gender diverse identities from their sexual health education plans.
U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken invoked the language of segregation and the Brown v. Board of Education decision to highlight the true nature of the administration's efforts, saying that their demand for sex education "appears to be sort of a separate-but-equal" policy.
The president has been threatening to withhold federal funding from public schools across the country if they don't change programs and curricula to align with his day 1 executive order, which sought to define trans people out of existence. That effort was empowered by his later order that claimed to target "radical" ideas in K-12 education, and called for schools to abide by the original order and, among other things, not to support social transition for trans kids.
Representatives for the administration defended the orders, claiming, "We're not excluding anybody from these programs. We're just simply saying you cannot teach that boys can be girls and girls can be boys."
According to Reuters, the judge's decision came after a lawyer speaking on behalf of Washington state explained the requirements put forward by HHS were to "edit transgender kids out of their curricula."
