Press Releases
November 25, 2025
Today, Tuesday, November 25, Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03), Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Mark Takano (CA-39), Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Andriano Espaillat (NY-13), Congressional Black Caucus Chair Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09), and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Chair Grace Meng (NY-06) led 74 House Democrats in a letter to U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Andrea Lucas, expressing urgent concern about her intent to rescind the EEOC’s Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace. This comprehensive guidance, published in 2024, covers more than 75 instances of harassment for employers to reference, including examples involving survivors of gender-based violence and pregnant workers, in order to help foster a safe and inclusive workplace.
November 24, 2025
Today, Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Takano (CA-39), Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Chair Rep. Grace Meng (NY-06), House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-08), Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03), and Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep. Yvette Clark (NY-09) led 105 Members of Congress in sending an oversight letter to Department of Justice regarding its work to prevent hate crimes and enforce hate crime laws.
November 20, 2025
U.S Representatives Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) and Sara Jacobs (CA-51), the Co-Chairs of the Congressional Equality Caucus’ Transgender Equality Task Force, Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Representative Mark Takano (CA-39), Chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, announced the introduction of a resolution commemorating November 20, 2025, as Transgender Day of Remembrance.
November 19, 2025
On November 19, 2022, five innocent clubgoers were murdered at Club Q, an LGBTQI+ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In remembrance of the victims of this terrible hate crime, Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Takano (CA-39) released the following statement:
213 Representatives Call on Speaker Johnson to Address Anti-Trans Rhetoric, Enforce Rules of Decorum
November 18, 2025
As Congress returns to normal business this week after the government shutdown, 213 Members of Congress—led by Equality Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Sarah McBride (DE-AL) and Chair Rep. Mark Takano (CA-39)—sent a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson condemning the rise in anti-transgender rhetoric from Members of Congress and urging the enforcement of the House’s rules of decorum. The letter signers represent the diversity of the Democratic caucus, including rank-and-file members, leadership—including Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08), Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-05), House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (CA-33)—every member of the Congressional Equality Caucus, and members of every major House Democrat ideological caucus.
November 17, 2025
Today, Congressional Equality Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Becca Balint, Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, and Senator Mazie Hirono led 130 Members of Congress in filing an amicus brief at the Supreme Court in the cases of West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox where the court will be considering whether categorical bans on transgender students participating in school sports consistent with their gender identity violate Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause.
November 6, 2025
Today, Congressman Mark Takano (CA-39)—Ranking Member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and Chair of Congressional Equality Caucus—released the following statement reflecting on the extraordinary career of Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi after she announced she would not run for re-election:
October 7, 2025
Ahead of the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar today, a case on the constitutionality of Colorado’s ban on licensed mental health professionals engaging in conversion therapy for minors, Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Takano and Vice Chair Rep. Ted Lieu released the following statements:
September 17, 2025
After comments by two Republican Members of Congress calling for the institutionalization of transgender people, Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Takano (CA-39) released the following statement:
September 15, 2025
Last week, the Co-Chairs of the Congressional Equality Caucus’s International LGBTQI+ Rights Task Force—Rep. Robert Garcia (CA-42), Rep. Julie Johnson (TX-32), and Rep. Sarah McBride (DE-AL)—led 61 Members of Congress in a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio opposing the removal of LGBTQI-specific data from the 2024 Country Report on Human Rights and urging its restoration.