US EditionTrump Administration Pushback Hits US Gender Diversity Efforts
- Seventeen state-level coalitions focused on domestic and sexual violence, with leadership from RICADV, filed a lawsuit in Rhode Island on Monday challenging the Trump administration’s new grant requirements under the Violence Against Women Act.
- The lawsuit challenges OVW grant rules requiring recipients to reject “gender ideology,” DEI programs, and framing violence as systemic issues, which conflict with VAWA’s original 1994 provisions.
- These restrictions, coupled with funding cuts and the CDC’s violence prevention team layoffs, threaten programs like “Dating Matters,” which rely on federal appropriations for teen dating violence prevention.
- Legal advocates argue funding conditions undermine essential support while coalition leaders warn that removing grants would be catastrophic for victims dependent on these services.
- If upheld, the lawsuit could cause nationwide service disruptions by forcing providers to either violate their missions or forgo critical funding essential to victims’ safety and community prevention.
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Olympic runner Nikki Hiltz and ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio on trans equality in the Trump era
As anti-trans legislation and rhetoric continue to escalate across the U.S.—from sweeping state-level bans on gender-affirming care to renewed efforts to bar trans people from public life—trans nonbinary elite runner Nikki Hiltz and ACLU LGBTQ+ rights lawyer Chase Strangio find themselves at the intersection of justice and representation. Fresh off a historic Olympic run and record-breaking season in 2024, Hiltz has become one of the most visibl…
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Coalitions in Va., 16 states challenge restrictions on federal grants for domestic violence victims
President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on Jan. 20, 2025. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)Amid new restrictions imposed on federal grants that aid victims of sexual or domestic violence, multiple groups from 17 states including Virginia signed onto a complaint challenging its legality. In a complaint filed this week against the U.S. Department of Justice and others, several victims’ service gro…
Domestic violence nonprofits sue over Trump administration’s anti-DEI funding rules
The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) filed a lawsuit on behalf of 17 state domestic violence and sexual assault organizations on Monday, arguing that restrictions the Trump administration has placed on grants are illegal and conflict with requirements laid out in the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).The Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) released updated grant guidelines on May 7 that said organizations applying fo…
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Anti-domestic violence groups are suing over the Trump administration’s grant requirements
By GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press Seventeen statewide anti-domestic and sexual violence coalitions are suing President Donald Trump’s administration over requirements in grant applications that they don’t promote “gender ideology” or run diversity, equity and inclusion programs or prioritize people in the country illegally. The groups say the requirements, which Trump ushered in with executive orders, put them in “an impossible position.” If …
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