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“These attacks on our community as we gather, both in protest and joy and love, will only energize our community and allies to be more visible and engaged,” said Cathy Renna, communications director, National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund.

Closing it during one of the most significant global celebrations of our community sends the wrong message."

Ongoing focus on transgender youth

A recurring target of the president's policies on Pride Month – and a steady drumbeat throughout his second term – is curbing young people from being out as transgender (preventing participation in high school track) and deterring adults from supporting them (investigating providers who offer gender affirming care).

He emphasized this on day one in the Oval Office, in an order declaring there are just two genders, male and female.

He repeated it at a White House gathering for Women's History Month, saying, "No matter how many surgeries you have, or chemicals you inject, if you are born with male DNA in every cell of your body, you can never become a woman, you are not a woman."

A report from the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, law school looked at the fallout from another early executive order of Trump's that imposed restrictions on transgender students in K-12 schools.

According to the report, Trump's policy restricts:

• Use of preferred names and pronouns: Federal agencies can cut funding to schools that recognize trans students' preferred names and pronouns.
• Access to shared restrooms in schools: The government can halt funding for schools that allow them.
• Participation in sports: Schools can lose funding if they let transgender students play on teams consistent with their gender identities.
• Privacy: Schools that don't out kids to their parents can lose funding.
• LGBTQ+ education: Schools may be penalized if they teach about gender identity.

  He also said the park service had agreed to rescind the decision.

  However, on Friday, Kevin Griess, superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Park, sent a letter, signed on June 5, saying the closure was on again and would run from June 5 at 6 p.m. Park Service orders Dupont Circle closed

  The U.S. Park Service announced on June 2 that it would close Dupont Circle park during the final weekend of WorldPride 2025 D.C.

  to prevent “destructive and disorderly behavior."

  WorldPride is a series of international LGBTQ+ Pride events to promote visibility and awareness. According to a new survey, Trump’s stance has already intimidated big corporations out of nodding to Pride this month for fear of retribution from the administration. Presidents George W.

  Bush and Donald Trump did not recognize it. instead June will be known as confidence month or maybe just June."

  The fake avatar of the president then makes crude commentary about gay sex that might come across as homophobic. Still, Leavitt’s statement was a startling indicator of just how little this month mattered to the current Trump administration.

  The U.S. Park Police said it would fence off an iconic park in a gay neighborhood in Washington, D.C., which is the host city for this year's WorldPride. Truth behind viral video

  A deepfake video doing the rounds on social media shows President Donald Trump saying Pride Month 2025 has been cancelled. This was done even though transgender activists have been central to the uprisings.

  Milk was pushed out of the Navy in the mid-1950s because of his sexual orientation.

  He won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. “There are no plans for a proclamation for the month of June,” said Leavitt. (Before his political career took off, Milk was a Navy veteran who was forced to accept an “other than honorable discharge” due to his sexual orientation.) But this month, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth declared that the ship would be stripped of its name.

  A community note below the video says, “Digitally altered video. "As Governor Gavin Newscum fully understands, large scale fines will be imposed!!!" he added, mocking Gov. Gavin Newsom's name.

  Trump's Justice Department followed up, threatening legal action, saying that allowing the girl to compete was unconstitutional.

  "Knowingly depriving female students of athletic opportunities and benefits on the basis of their sex would constitute unconstitutional sex discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause," the letter said.

  FBI looking for tipsters on gender-affirming care

  The administration's actions have also targeted health care for LGBTQ+ youth.

  On June 2, the FBI posted on X, asking the public for tips about medical providers who offer gender-affirming care to minors.

  “Help the FBI protect children.

  White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on June 3 that Trump had “no plans” to recognize June as Pride Month. Get the latest on Donald Trump and American politics also realtime updates on Indonesia ferry fire.

  

  The following year, Milk was assassinated in City Hall along with the city's progressive mayor, George Moscone.

  Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell told USA TODAY Hegseth "is committed to ensuring that the names attached to all DOD installations and assets are reflective of the Commander-in-Chief’s priorities, our nation’s history, and the warrior ethos."

  Stuart Milk, executive chair of Harvey Milk Foundation and nephew of Milk, said he was "heartbroken" to hear the Pentagon's recommendation.

  "Harvey Milk's legacy is certainly enhanced and celebrated by a U.S.

  Naval Ship, however, his legacy will not be silenced or diminished by the renaming of that Naval ship," he wrote.

  Jennifer Pike Bailey, government affairs director for the Human Rights Campaign, called the move political.

  “At a time when this country faces national security threats from all angles, it's a disgrace that our Secretary of Defense is wasting time and taxpayer dollars on a desperate attempt to divide our country and politicize our military,” she said.

  Education Department announces ‘Title IX Month’

  On June 2, the Education Department announced the administration would honor June as “Title IX Month” as it seeks to “reverse” the Biden Administration rule redefining sex to include “gender identity” and enshrining protections of transgender people.

  Republican lawmakers roundly criticized the Biden rule when it was introduced last year, saying it would effectively force women to “share bathrooms, locker rooms, and other private spaces with biological males” and allow people assigned male at birth to compete in women’s sports, both arguments that have become prevalent among Trump administration officials.

  “June will now be dedicated to commemorating women and celebrating their struggle for, and achievement of, equal educational opportunity,” the U.S.

  Department of Education announced in a statement.

  The department also directed its Office of Civil Rights to launch investigations into the University of Wyoming and Jefferson County Public Schools in Colorado for “allegedly allowing males to join and live in female-only intimate and communal spaces.” The government appeared to be referencing transgender women and girls in both instances.

  “Title IX provides women protections on the basis of sex in all educational activities, which include their rights to equal opportunity in sports and sex-segregated intimate spaces, including sororities and living accommodations,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement.

  Renna, of the National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund, said renaming the month “simply reinforces" the administration’s "anti-trans agenda.”

  DOJ threatens fines after California lets transgender athlete compete

  On May 31, a 16-year-old transgender athlete competed and placed first in two events at the California State Track & Field Championship.

  The order characterizes gender-affirming care for minors as “chemical and surgical mutilation" and “sterilizing” children.

  Several hospitals, such as Denver Health in Colorado, said they had stopped performing gender-affirming surgeries for patients younger than 19, in the wake of this policy. However, this term, the president's rancor against policies that uplift LGBTQ+ rights appears amplified.

  During the Lavender Scare of the early 50s, the federal government prohibited LGBTQ+ people from working for the federal government.