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May 21, 2025
U.S. Representatives Adam Smith (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee; Mark Takano (D-Calif.), Chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus (CEC): Chrissy Houlahan (D-Penn.), Ranking Member of the Military Personnel Subcommittee; Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.), Vice Chair of the CEC; and Eric Sorensen (D-Ill.), Co-Chair of the CEC; introduced the Fit To Serve Act today, which affirms the rights of transgender people to serve in the United States Armed Forces by prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity, including a diagnosis or potential diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
May 20, 2025
Congressional leaders and LGBTQ+ equality advocates are speaking out forcefully after the Trump administration charged Rep. LaMonica McIver, a Black Democrat from New Jersey, with felony assault, accusing her of attacking law enforcement officers during what colleagues say was a lawful congressional oversight visit to an ICE detention facility. The arrest crosses what New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries previously called a "red line."
May 19, 2025
Today, Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Mark Takano (CA-39) released the following statement on the NJ Attorney General’s baseless charges against CEC member Rep. McIver:
New Republican House bill bans transgender troops & seeks to strip trans vets of security clearances
May 15, 2025
House Republicans are planning to introduce a bill that would make President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender military service permanent and expand it. The legislation, drafted by Alabama U.S. Rep. Barry Moore, would not only implement the ban through federal law but also require the discharge of any currently serving trans troops and restrict access to national security careers after service.
May 14, 2025
The Congressional Equality Caucus Wednesday denounced the advancement of a budget reconciliation bill that would make deep cuts to Medicaid and bar Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program from paying for gender-affirming care for transgender minors.
May 14, 2025
Today, Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Takano released the following statement after Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced a budget reconciliation bill that would cut Medicaid, take health care away from millions of Americans, and restrict access to medically-necessary care for transgender people
May 7, 2025
More than 20 members of Congress have urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to publicly condemn a Hungarian law that bans Pride events.
May 6, 2025
Today, Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Rep. Mark Takano released the following statement after the Supreme Court allowed Trump’s ban on transgender people’s service in the military to be enforced as litigation continues:
April 30, 2025
Today, Subcommittee on Europe Ranking Member Bill Keating and Equality Caucus Co-Chair Mark Takano led 20 colleagues on a letter to Secretary Rubio condemning new Hungarian legislation and constitutional amendments that ban Pride marches and permit the use of facial recognition software to stifle free speech and expression. The letter calls on the Secretary to publicly condemn this harmful legislation which undermines the human and civil rights of all Hungarians.
April 29, 2025
House and Senate Democrats on Tuesday reintroduced the Equality Act, a landmark civil rights bill that would make sexual orientation and gender identity protected classes.