Federal Court Blocks Portions of Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Orders

Federal court blocks portions of Trump’s anti-trans executive orders

District Judge Jon. S. Tigar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco issued an order on June 9 granting a preliminary injunction against several provisions of three of President Trump’s executive orders adversely affecting transgender people.

Health and Human Rights News

Week ending 7 June 2025 Scientists sign up to fight censorship Over 6000 scientists have signed an “Open letter in support of science” in protest against President Trump’s 23 May executive order which called for political appointees to “sit in judgment of science and scientists”. The letter calls for swift social and legal actions against the “illegal Executive Order that represents dangerous overreach into our scientific systems.” The executi…

Judge temporarily blocks executive orders targeting LGBTQ, HIV groups

A federal judge on Monday blocked the enforcement of three of President Donald Trump’s executive orders that would have threatened to defund nonprofit organizations providing health care and services for LGBTQ people and those living with HIV. The preliminary injunction was awarded by Judge Jon Tigar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in a case, San Francisco AIDS Foundation v. Trump, filed by Lambda Legal and eig…