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February 5, 2025
Today, Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Takano (CA-39), Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-08), and Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (VA-11) sent a letter to Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Acting Director Charles Ezell, calling on OPM to halt implementation of the anti-trans Executive Order 14168, including by rescinding a January 29, 2025 memorandum on how to carry out the Order:
February 5, 2025
Three House Democrats including Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Mark Takano (Calif.) issued a letter on Wednesday urging the Office of Personnel Management to not implement President Donald Trump’s anti-trans executive order, “Defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government.”
February 1, 2025
Today, Rep. Mark Takano (CA-39), Chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, released the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s censorship of transgender-inclusive and other LGBTQI+ resources across the federal government:
January 29, 2025
Today, Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Takano (CA-39) made the following statement after President Trump issued an Executive Order targeting LGBTQI+ education and students:
January 28, 2025
Today, Equality Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Takano (CA-39) made the following statement after President Trump issued an Executive Order to target medically necessary health care for transgender individuals under 19 years of age:
January 28, 2025
Today, Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Takano (CA-39) released the following statement after President Trump issued an Executive Order that would effectively ban transgender people from serving in the United States military:
January 20, 2025
Today, Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Takano (CA-39) released the following statement after President Trump issued several anti-LGBTQI+ Executive Orders on his first day back in office:
January 16, 2025
LGBTQ and civil rights advocacy groups and Democratic lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives denounced legislation passed on Tuesday by the Republican majority that would prohibit schools that receive federal education funding from allowing transgender students to participate in girls’ and women’s sports.
January 14, 2025
Today, Rep. Mark Takano (CA-39), Chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, released the following statement after House Republicans passed H.R. 28, a federal ban on transgender girls from participating in school sports—one of the first bills to pass the House in the 119th Congress.
January 10, 2025
Today, the Congressional Equality Caucus announced that the following members will serve as Co-Chairs of the caucus in the 119th Congress: Representatives Mark Pocan (WI-02), Angie Craig (MN-02), Sharice L. Davids (KS-03), Chris Pappas (NH-01), Ritchie Torres (NY-15), Becca Balint (VT-AL), Robert Garcia (CA-42), Eric Sorensen (IL-17), Julie Johnson (TX-32), Sarah McBride (DE-AL), and Emily Randall (WA-06). The CEC previously announced that Representative Mark Takano (CA-39) as Chair for this Congress.