A group of physicians and researchers working on LGBTQ+ health sued the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services Tuesday over the sweeping grant terminations that have impacted medical research on queer people as part of the implementation of President Trump’s executive orders targeting transgender people and diversity initiatives.
Over a dozen researchers and a nonprofit group, GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality, joined in filing the suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The complaint also names health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and NIH director Jay Bhattacharya as defendants.
It’s the latest in a series of lawsuits against the federal health agency since the Trump administration began its overhaul, and the second to specifically focus on how research cuts have affected LGBTQ+ research. Another group of researchers, including Brittany Charlton of the Harvard T.H. Chan School’s LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence, sued in mid-May.
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