Trans rights advocate Allison Chapman, a civil rights and health equity fellow at Lawyers for Good Government, criticized the FTC’s approach to the comment period.

“The FTC is clearly on a fishing expedition, looking for responses that will justify its predetermined position,” Chapman told Truthout. “The questions posed are written in a way that leads commenters toward the answers the FTC wants to receive.”

La abogada de derechos civiles Khadijah Silver del grupo Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG) aportó datos contextuales.

“Las personas transgénero constituyen el 1% de la población total en Estados Unidos, pero solo representan el 0,11% de los tiradores masivos”, según datos del Archivo de Violencia Armada.

Silver añadió que estadísticamente, los individuos transgénero son “significativamente menos propensos que la población general a cometer estos crímenes” y en cambio, tienen cuatro veces más probabilidades de ser víctimas de delitos.

On Tuesday, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling that had found Houston County, Georgia’s health insurance policy— which denied coverage for gender-affirming surgeries—constituted sex discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

“This decision to withhold that care is steeped in animus and distorts the holding in Skrmetti to fit and further a discriminatory agenda, unlawfully expanding Skrmetti to apply to care for adults,” Khadijah Silver, Supervising Attorney of Civil Rights at Lawyers For Good Government, told LGBTQ Nation.

Stroud's complaint comes after the Government Accountability Project on Tuesday said it had, in partnership with the nonprofits Lawyers for Good Government and Stand Up for Science, filed complaints on behalf of FEMA employees who wish to remain anonymous.

In a letter to the OSC, DHS's Office of Inspector General and members of the House and Senate subcommittees on Homeland Security, attorneys for the groups argued the administration's actions "blatantly violate the federal laws protecting whistleblowers."

Lawyers for Good Government launched a new resource hub on Tuesday tracking changes in state policies around access to gender-affirming care and constitutional protections in all 50 states and six territories.

Reproductive rights advocates in New Jersey warn that a Republican governor could restrict access by cutting family planning funding and limiting Medicaid participation—threats that have previously led to clinic closures, higher STI rates, and delayed cancer detection. While state law protects abortion, advocates stress that “rights without access are meaningless.”

A federal judge in Texas dealt a blow to accessing reproductive health care nationally by nullifying a federal privacy rule created to protect abortion seekers and providers from possible criminal inquiries. 

“The overturning of this rule, unfortunately, is not unexpected to me, but it is a really important signal to those states that do want to prosecute patients, or do at least want to wield investigation or the threat of investigation as the lever of power, that they are more free to do so,” said Alyssa Morrison, senior staff attorney with Lawyers for Good Government. 

In U.S. v. Skrmetti, the Court ruled Tennessee’s limitations on gender-affirming care for minors did not violate the Equal Protection Clause of 14th Amendment, as the plaintiffs had argued. In the opinion, Chief Justice Roberts cited inconclusive medical studies that deem gender-affirming care “an experimental practice” with “highly uncertain” reliability.

As explained in a webinar from Lawyers for Good Government, the plaintiffs relied on the precedent set by Bostock v. Clayton County in 2020, which held that sex discrimination under the Civil Rights Act did include that related to sexual orientation and gender identity.

ICE agents have made over a dozen arrests this week at immigration courts in lower Manhattan. Many migrants find themselves unsure if they should attend their hearings or not. Estuardo Cifuentes, director of programs at Proyecto Corazón, which provides legal aid to immigrants across the country, told Documented that at least two migrant families in New York affected by this week’s arrests have asked them for legal help.

Howell’s 102-page decision presents the facts and legal analysis in a “linear and rational fashion” that makes it “a gift to whoever picks up this case if it’s appealed,” said Khadijah Silver, a civil rights supervising attorney at Lawyers for Good Government who closely followed the case. “The DOGE overreach piece is something that I think will hold up. It was, as Howell says, ultra vires, like nothing we’ve ever seen before. It was an absolute abuse of power that shocks the conscience of anybody who hears about it.”

However, the Trump administration’s twisting of civil rights law subverts that intent, further marginalizing historically excluded groups and curbing the ability of advocates to mount legal challenges.

“It’s incredibly Orwellian,” Khadijah Silver, supervising attorney for civil rights at Lawyers for Good Government, told NPQ. “The way that they have twisted the language around the Civil Rights Act…to mean blind application of the law, with no analysis of circumstance and historical harms, which is a willfully inaccurate analysis.”

In recent weeks, we’ve witnessed an alarming and accelerating trend: elected officials brazenly filing articles of impeachment against federal judges — not for corruption or misconduct, but for the “crime” of upholding the law against executive overreach. This represents a profound threat to judicial independence that should concern everyone, regardless of political affiliation.