What to Know About the Legal Cases Challenging Trump’s Transgender Executive Orders

The high court’s direction could depend on justices’ regard for a 2020 ruling that gender identity is covered by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
What to Know About the Legal Cases Challenging Trump’s Transgender Executive Orders
The U.S. Supreme Court is seen in Washington, DC, on April 07, 2025. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images
Stacy Robinson
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President Donald Trump’s executive orders on gender in the military, along with similar orders affecting prisons, pronouns on government documents, and pediatric medicine have spawned a host of lawsuits and pushed legal questions on transgender issues to the forefront of public consciousness.

The policy questions are not new: Does a biological male have a right to use female locker rooms? Can the use of certain pronouns and identifiers be compelled? Is it right to allow hormonal treatments on minors, especially when those changes cannot be reversed?

Stacy Robinson is a politics reporter for the Epoch Times, occasionally covering cultural and human interest stories. Based out of Washington, D.C. he can be reached at [email protected]