35 20 685 https://history-okeq-org-red5.dev.unicomm.me/files/original/e3460cc7e54aedae609ae72412f9437b.eml 4d77d82639b6774d165a71b24307e700 Email A resource containing textual messages and binary attachments sent electronically from one person to another or one person to many people. Email Body The main body of the email, including all replied and forwarded text and headers Dear Friends, Last week, Senate Bill 904 was signed into law in Oklahoma. The legislation restricts the use of state funds, facilities, and resources for gender-affirming healthcare, creating new barriers for transgender Oklahomans seeking medically necessary care and increasing uncertainty for healthcare providers across the state. While SB 904 does not appear to constitute a total statewide ban on gender-affirming care for adults, its impact will still be significant. By restricting how publicly funded healthcare systems and providers can offer care, the law is already disrupting access to services and creating confusion for patients and families. Last week, we shared Oklahomans for Equality’s formal statement opposing the bill and reaffirming our commitment to continuing care through our clinic. Today, I want to share more about what we are already seeing on the ground, and ask for your help. The impact of SB 904 is already being felt. Since the bill’s signing, publicly funded healthcare providers and institutions across Oklahoma have begun referring patients to our clinic as they navigate new restrictions on care. At the same time, we are hearing from transgender Oklahomans and their families who are frightened, uncertain, and trying to understand what access to healthcare will look like moving forward. We anticipate a significant increase in demand for appointments, care coordination, patient navigation, and financial assistance in the weeks and months ahead. As a small community clinic, we operate with a strong commitment to keeping care accessible and affordable, which means increased demand places immediate strain on both staff capacity and financial assistance resources. For many people, the barriers created by this legislation are not abstract. Delayed care, increased travel, higher out-of-pocket costs, and fear of losing access altogether place enormous strain on individuals and families who are simply trying to access medically necessary healthcare. Too often, those most impacted are people with the fewest financial resources and the fewest alternatives for care. Our commitment remains unchanged: our clinic is open, and we will continue doing everything we can to ensure transgender Oklahomans have access to affirming, compassionate care. But we cannot do this alone. Thanks to a generous matching challenge from Dennis Neill and John Southard, every dollar donated, up to $10,000, will be matched dollar-for-dollar, doubling the impact of your gift. Because demand for care is already increasing, early support will directly determine how many patients we are able to assist in the coming months. Your gift today will help ensure that cost is not the reason someone loses access to care. Donations will support appointments, labs, and other critical healthcare and clinic operational needs as demand continues to rise. Oklahoma already ranks 47th in the nation for health outcomes. At a time when our state faces healthcare workforce shortages and growing mental health needs, restricting access to evidence-based care only deepens the crisis for vulnerable Oklahomans. Healthcare decisions should be made by patients, families, and qualified medical providers, not politicians. Every person deserves dignity, safety, and access to medically appropriate healthcare. 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With the achievement of marriage equality in Oklahoma 12 years ago and nationwide a year later, it seemed that LGBTQ people were on our way to being accepted as part of a diverse society. But having lost that battle, the culture warriors made transgender people their next target and began attacking them through ongoing legislation, executive orders, rhetoric and intimidation that spurs physical violence. Transgender people must deal with much higher rates of physical violence than do cisgender people. Among the key findings of the “Gender Identity Disparities in Criminal Victimization: National Crime Victimization Survey, 2017-2018” study by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law: • • • Transgender people (16+) are victimized over four times more often than cisgender people. In 2017-2018, transgender people experienced 86.2 victimizations per 1,000 people compared to 21.7 victimizations per 1,000 people for cisgender people. Transgender women and men had higher rates of violent victimization (86.1 and 107.5 per 1,000 people, respectively) than cisgender women and men (23.7 and 19.8 per 1,000 people, respectively). In 2017-2018, transgender households had higher rates of property victimization (214.1 per 1,000 households) than cisgender households (108 per 1,000 households). And the Human Rights Campaign reports that “in the 12 years from January 2013 through Nov. 2024, HRC and other advocates identified 372 transgender and gender-expansive individuals who were victims of fatal violence in the United States. … People living at the intersections of multiple marginalized identities have been disproportionately impacted relative to others. Specifically, Black transgender women, who face multiple layers of violence due to their gender identity, gender, and race, comprise 61% of all victims of fatal violence against transgender and gender-expansive people.” History shows that transgender people have always existed, and the Oklahomans for Equality History Project is taking August – Transgender History Month – as an opportunity to highlight some of the contributions of transgender people in Oklahoma and put a spotlight on the attacks that have inundated them in recent years. There’s a lot of information, so we are presenting it in a series of three articles that are being distributed through email and social media from Monday, Aug. 24, through Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026. Part 1 looks at transgender people’s progression over time from invisibility in society to the out-and-proud individuals they have become, as well as their inclusion in the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Part 2 considers the transgender community’s needs and how the larger community has responded. Part 3 showcases brave transgender individuals who have taken stands in the �public spotlight and the resilience of the trans community. The entire series is presented here on the History Project’s website. PART 1: FROM INVISIBILITY TO INCLUSION A survey of early documents from Oklahomans for Equality’s forerunner organizations, Oklahomans for Human Rights and Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights, turns up no references to the word “transgender” or other words that might indicate that transgender issues were among the organization’s original concerns in the 1980s. But through the organization, LGBTQ people found each other, and transgender people have been included in the organization’s mission for more than a quarter-century. Transgender issues were on Tulsans’ radars at least by 1994, when the Tulsa Family News’ March edition included news briefs on Washington state legislation that would “make it illegal to place a foster child in a household with a homosexual, bisexual, transsexual or transvestite” and on the formation of a national group, Gay and Lesbian Americans, which, despite its limiting name, said it was “committed to civil rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people” in the United States. The same issue included an advertisement for a psychologist who was “sensitive to the challenges of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgendered Individuals, Couples & Families.” (Note the “ed” at the end of the word “Transgender” – a common usage at that time that has since fallen out of practice.) In 1998, during the late Nancy McDonald’s tenure as president of PFLAG National, the organization extended PFLAG’s mission to include transgender people. McDonald, a Tulsan, was a driving force behind OkEq’s growth and for inclusion in Tulsa. TOHR had a transgender support group at least by the late 1990s, and transgender issues were among the central priorities for the organization by the new millennium. By the time the Pyramid Project kicked off in 2000 to raise funds for the purchase and renovation of OkEq’s building, the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center, the word “transgender” was included in its mission statement. The TOHR Torch Fall 2002 newsletter is full of references to the organization’s inclusion of transgender people in its mission, programs and community center name, the Tulsa Gay, Lesbian, Bi & Transgender (GLBT) Community Center, which was a rented facility at 2114 S. Memorial Drive at the time. A circa 2003 document in the History Project’s physical archives is specifically about a transgender support group and spells out the group’s mission statement/purpose: “Gender Outreach of Oklahoma is a volunteer, educational, outreach, support, and social organization for The Transgendered Community (TTC), their significant others (SOs), families and friends. The purpose of Gender Outreach of Oklahoma is to act as a nonsexual support group for TTC and their significant others.” The document says that: �Toward this end, it will: • Provide programs, speakers, services, and social activities for the support of the members and to promote the acceptance of TTC. • Provide opportunities for TTC, for the purpose of developing self-understanding and self-acceptance. • Provide Outreach by passing on knowledge and understanding of TTC to related organizations and to the public. • Assist members with problems related to their specific needs, whenever possible. • Assist SOs in the establishment and continued existence of their own interest. • Encourage members to participate in Gender Outreach of Oklahoma Unity Events. • Encourage members to participate in Gay/Lesbian/Bi-sexual/Transgendered community (GLBT) promotions of legislation affecting anti-discrimination of the GLBT community. The group, a part of TOHR, was hoping a new community center could provide its members a room for meetings, doctors and therapists, a safe place to be themselves, “2 Lockers for the cross-dressers to store their clothes” and “a dressing room,” apparently because its members did not feel free to dress in alignment with their gender identities at home or in other places. Also in the History Project’s physical archives is a copy of a grant application to an organization called Resist dated Nov. 28, 2004, which mentions that TOHR had held a “highly successful” regional conference on transgender issues in 2003 and that “TOHR’s Gender Outreach Program provides education, meeting space and social interaction for northeastern Oklahoma’s transgender and intersex population.” An accompanying chart shows that TOHR at the time had one transgender board member and five active volunteers who were transgender. An archived 2016 document on the Gender Outreach Program lists the average monthly attendance as follows: • General meeting – 35 • FTM specific meeting – 11 • Teen specific meeting – 11 • Parent specific meeting – 20 • Gender non binary – 5 • Bartlesville – 5 Yes, the document indicates that “OkEq has started a transgender support group in Bartlesville. For now,” it says, “that group will meet monthly at First Presbyterian Church. Thank you to Josie Peacock for being willing to facilitate that meeting. The Tulsa group will �assist in getting that group up and running. Thank you to the Bartlesville PFLAG group for pointing out the need for a transgender group in that area.” In 2013, OkEq’s transgender program was featured in the documentary “Just Gender,” which premiered at Tulsa’s Circle Cinema to a packed house, the Dec. 30, 2013, OkEq eNews reported. The same issue noted that “youth and parents from our transgender youth and family support group continue to receive international attention. Taylor Burns, our family therapist, and physician Laura Arrowsmith have presented at more than a dozen conferences, universities and medical societies nationwide. Both Taylor and Laura have worked with several Oklahoma school districts to provide services for families with transgender children.” The Feb. 20, 2013, OkEq eNews notes that “to honor the courage and bravery of the transgender community, Havah Gordon has made a donation to OkEq's Be Our Voice, Give a Day campaign and is sponsoring the Equality Center for the week of Sun, February 17th, 2013 through Sat, February 23rd, 2013.” Dr. Arrowsmith brought National Center for Transgender Equality founding Executive Director Mara Kiesling to Tulsa and the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center in 2014. OkEq's Gender Outreach Program held a daylong workshop on transgender issues in April 2015. Dr. Arrowsmith, a board member of the National Center for Transgender Equality and a former Oklahomans for Equality board member, provided the keynote address. On New Year’s Day 2016, OkEq hosted a panel discussion featuring Dr. Arrowsmith, Taylor Burns and attorney Alyssa Bryant after a viewing of the film “The Danish Girl,” about the Danish artist who was one of the first recipients of sexual reassignment surgery in the 1920s, at the Circle Cinema. OkEq’s Gender Support Program has continued its services through the years, offering “support, education, and community for transgender and intersex individuals in a safe, welcoming space,” a 2025 Facebook post says. “Breakout groups for Non-Binary folks, Trans Men, and Trans Women. … Come as you are, find your people, and grow together in community.” PART 2: NEEDS AND RESPONSE The Oklahomans for Equality History Project archives include a September 2005 Needs Assessment Report on Tulsa’s Gay Community from the Tulsa Community Foundation, the Tulsa Reaches Out Project and the Community Service Council of Greater Tulsa, which said the following percentages of transgender survey respondents perceived these issues as among the Top 5 services needed for GLBT people: �       50.0% Advocacy at the State Legislature 37.5% Physical Health Services 37.5% Mental Health Services 37.5% STD/HIV Prevention 37.5% Public Awareness about GLBT Issues 37.5% GLBT Center 37.5% Legal Services Related to Sexual Orientation Over the years, Oklahomans for Equality has made strides to meet those needs through advocacy, services, partnerships and education. Here’s how our archives reveal those efforts: LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY The May 2006 edition of the Tulsa Star includes mention of an upcoming Day at the Legislature sponsored by TOHR and Oklahoma PFLAG when participants could visit with legislators about the needs of the LGBT community. OkEq has continued the tradition of hosting annual days for advocacy at the state Capitol and has sent representatives at other times, as well, specifically to talk to legislators and advocate for or against specific bills that would have protected or targeted LGBTQ people. In March 2008, Oklahomans for Equality hosted a press conference to denounce thenstate Rep. Sally Kern’s widely publicized statement that homosexuality is "the biggest threat that our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam." The press conference agenda went beyond the issue of sexual orientation and Islamophobia to include gender identity. “Citing recent acts of violence against gay and transgender people, (thenOklahomans for Equality Executive Director Justice) Waidner said comments such as Kern's have dangerous effects, adding that ‘Rep. Kern has repeatedly used her public office to demonize lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Oklahomans and to attempt to deny them the exact same civil liberties she now defends so passionately,’” the Tulsa World reported. OkEq sent out an Action Alert in July 2020 encouraging people to contact the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development in protest of a proposed rule that would have established homeless shelter admission and placement policies based on a person's biological sex assigned at birth rather than self-identified gender identity. “By removing these protections, shelters and programs that receive or operate using HUD grants are now able to ignore nondiscrimination protections for transgender people, leaving them vulnerable to being denied shelter and forced out onto the streets,” OkEq said in the Action Alert. OkEq also noted that “one in three transgender Americans has been homeless at some point in their lives,” making the need for this action all the more critical. The proposed rule was never implemented. �Transgender-rights advocates marched through downtown Tulsa on March 31, 2023, to protest bills in the Oklahoma Legislature targeting transgender care. The march went from the Central Library to OkEq’s Dennis R. Neill Equality Center, with participants shouting, “This is what humanity looks like,” the entire way, the Tulsa World reported. While advocating before the Oklahoma Legislature and federal government has been challenging, to say the least, the city of Tulsa’s government has shown much more willingness and intention to be inclusive. In 2015, then-Mayor Dewey Bartlett signed an ordinance that for the first time included gender identity in the city’s list of protected classes under its fair-housing policy. And in 2019, after OkEq had worked for a decade to persuade the city of Tulsa to include gender identity and expression to its employment nondiscrimination policy, then-Mayor G.T. Bynum signed an executive order doing just that, The Gayly reported. And in 2020, the Tulsa City Council passed and Bynum signed the Hate Crime Protections Ordinance, adding LGBTQIA+ hate crime protections at the local level. SERVICES, EDUCATION AND PARTNERSHIPS On Dec. 11, 2018, Oklahomans for Equality was notified that it had received a $75,000 grant so that it could hire a full-time employee to coordinate medical services in the Equality Center’s newly renovated (in 2017) health clinic so OkEq could address LGBTQ health disparities and the “stigmatization … not experienced by heterosexual, cisgender Oklahomans” that often prevents LGBTQ people “from talking openly about their medical conditions and needs with medical providers,” in the words of OkEq’s grant application. This money started the clinic that now provides medical services available nowhere else in the state for transgender health care, as well as for HIV/AIDS care. To further its outreach, Oklahomans for Equality provided a webinar with expert panelists on “Understanding Transgender Healthcare & Wellness” in 2023. The webinar was “for anyone interested in learning from experts in the field about gender-affirming care for adults and youth, debunking myths, and bringing awareness to this important topic,” the OkEq eNews article announcing the event said. The event moderator was trans advocate and consultant Lucas Hall, and the speakers included Dr. Al Carlozzi, Dr. Laura Arrowsmith, Dr. Shauna Lawlis, Elliot Parker and Kelly Kemp. Topics to be discussed included “processes and protocols for transgender youth and adults seeking genderaffirming care and support, understanding gender-diversity from a medical and scientific perspective, addressing common myths about trans people of all ages and the genderaffirming care they could receive, and best practices for supporting transgender youth and adults.” Outside health-care practitioners and medical facilities were crucial to some transgender Oklahomans’ gender-affirming care at that time, but more people have come to rely on Oklahomans for Equality’s health clinic in the wake of the enactment of Senate Bill 904 into law in May. The law “restricts the use of state funds, facilities, and resources for genderaffirming healthcare, creating new barriers for transgender Oklahomans seeking medically �necessary care and increasing uncertainty for healthcare providers across the state,” OkEq Executive Director Hailey Briggs wrote in a letter to constituents this spring. The law resulted in a total shutdown of gender-affirming care by those providers and facilities that accept any state money. But because OkEq’s clinic receives no state funds, it has been free to carry on the work that other providers have abandoned. “Our commitment remains unchanged: our clinic is open, and we will continue doing everything we can to ensure transgender Oklahomans have access to affirming, compassionate care,” Briggs wrote in announcing a $10,000 challenge grant from Dennis Neill and John Southard to raise additional funds to care for the influx of patients the OkEq clinic was receiving after other facilities turned them away. And in March of this year, the Tulsa Flyer published a story on mental health in the LGBTQ community, particularly in transgender and nonbinary people. Oklahomans for Equality’s counseling services, including clinical social worker and therapist Matthew Gibbons, were featured heavily in that article. Former OkEq board member Conor Cleary, a lawyer who then was an associate at Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, facilitated an “OUTlaw Legal Workshop” twice a month at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center in 2013, the OkEq eNews from Feb. 20 of that year indicates. Topics were to include wills, rights of survivorship, medical issues, durable power of attorney and inheritances, transgender name changes and trans rights. That same eNews edition also mentioned the continuing Gender Outreach Program, which was to provide “support, education and social opportunities for transgender and intersex individuals.” In 2020, attorney Joshua Payton started OkEq’s Name Change & Gender Marker Change Clinic, which continues to meet monthly at the Equality Center. Payton, who with his wife, Jennifer Payton, incorporated the Oklahoma Equality Law Center as a nonprofit in 2023, received the Bishop-Baldwin, Barton & Phillips Civil Rights Advocacy Award at the OkEq Equality Gala in 2022 for his work on behalf of transgender people. LAWS AND LEGAL CASES In 2021, the state of Oklahoma began allowing gender nonbinary changes to birth certificates, but soon thereafter, through an executive order, it became the first state in the nation to reverse action and ban nonbinary gender markers on birth certificates. Gov. Kevin Stitt also signed House Joint Resolution 1032, which repealed the ability for residents to change their gender markers on Oklahoma driver's licenses. With the rapid changes in state laws and policies, “I may not immediately know the answer to a question, but I pledge to walk in solidarity with those seeking clarity until we have an answer,” Payton has said. �Payton successfully represented two transgender students who obtained court orders for gender-marker changes on their school records in 2023. The Oklahoma State Board of Education then refused to make those changes. But Payton’s Oklahoma Equality Law Center and the Oklahoma Appleseed Center for Law and Justice sued the board and thenState Superintendent Ryan Walters and prevailed in June 2025. Payton is also fighting a law signed by Gov. Stitt in March of this year that made it impossible for people to change their gender markers on Oklahoma driver's licenses. The law does not invalidate those licenses that were already changed. Gender markers are just one aspect of the law that has come under attack by the Legislature and governor in recent years, which also have seen the passage of bans on gender-affirming medical care for minors and prohibitions on the use of state funds and properties for gender-affirming care. These policies remain the subject of ongoing state and federal legal challenges. Lambda Legal, for example, reports that it is currently fighting policies targeting transgender people in Oklahoma in the areas of identification documents, school facilities and healthcare. The Fowler v. Stitt case challenges the state’s prohibition of gender-marker changes on birth certificates. “Starting in at least 2007, the Oklahoma State Department of Health (had) permitted transgender people to obtain Oklahoma birth certificates with amended sex designations,” the 10th Circuit court noted in a 2024 ruling. But the 2021 executive order from Gov. Kevin Stitt stopped that practice. The appeals court found that the plaintiffs had a “plausible equal protection claim” and remanded the case back to district court for a ruling consistent with its findings. However, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated that ruling in 2025 and sent the case back to the 10th Circuit for reconsideration. The Bridge v. Oklahoma State Department of Education case challenges 2022’s Senate Bill 615, which prohibits transgender people from using Oklahoma school restrooms that align with their gender identity. The district court ruled in favor of the defendants, and the case is on appeal at the 10th Circuit. In the area of healthcare, the Poe v. Drummond case challenged the law created by 2023’s Senate Bill 613, which bans gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, but the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s ruling upholding the ban. In 2022, Gov. Kevin Stitt signed into law an act to prevent University of Oklahoma medical facilities from providing gender-transition medical services to minors. Oklahomans for Equality distributed a statement on social media that fall and in the Nov. 7, 2022, eNews, saying: “Medical decisions should be between the patient, the parents, and their doctors. The interjection of politicians into that space is wildly inappropriate and nothing more than an act of bullying. This carrot and stick approach to promote their transphobic ideals hurts all Oklahomans who access medical services at University �Hospitals. They would rather deny funding for medical services than respect the rights of transgender kids and their families. Transgender medical care is a form of suicide prevention. Because without this care, our young people often don't live to see adulthood. These are Oklahoma kids who need support and care. To all trans kids and their families, no matter what Oklahoma (legislators) think or do, you are valued, and people will continue to fight for you.” In a case from Tennessee last year, the U.S. Supreme Court said states could legally ban medical treatments such as puberty blockers and hormones for transgender people younger than 18. Also in 2022, Gov. Kevin Stitt signed the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” which prohibits those assigned male at birth from participating in girls’ or women’s sports. This June, hearing cases from Idaho and West Virginia, the Supreme Court ruled that states’ bans on transgender athletes from women’s and girls’ sports teams are legal. PART 3: OUT AND PROUD Despite all the obstacles that are stacked against them, brave and determined transgender people have stood in the public spotlight and have taken stands for their own and others’ rights. Among the first openly transgender public figures in Oklahoma history have been Paula Sophia Schonauer, who was an Oklahoma City police officer when she transitioned in 2001 and who was a candidate for a seat in the Oklahoma House of Representatives in 2014; attorney Brittany Novotny (now Brittany Stewart), a transgender attorney who faced ridicule when she ran in 2010 for the Oklahoma House seat held by Rep. Sally Kern, ROklahoma City (Charlie Meadows, then-chairman of the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee, called Novotny a "confused it."); Mauree Turner, who was elected to the Oklahoma House in 2020 as the nation's first openly nonbinary lawmaker; and Nat Wachowski-Estes, who in 2020 was the first openly transgender candidate for the Tulsa City Council. And in the 2010s Tulsa-area transgender teenagers Katie Hill of Bixby and Arin Andrews of Catoosa made history with local and national publicity about their transition journeys through newspaper stories (“PART ONE: Katie Hill finds herself after 16 years living as a boy”; “PART TWO: Katie Hill braves returning to school, finds love”, “Katie Hill and Arin Andrews attend the Equality Gala held at the Convention Center,”); magazine articles (“I Transitioned From Female to Male as a Teen. Here's My Story”); books (“Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition” by Katie Hill and “Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen” by Arin Andrews, both available in OkEq’s Nancy & Joe McDonald Rainbow Library); and modeling for a national ad campaign (“A Barneys Campaign Embraces a Gender Identity Issue”). �Discrimination against transgender people in employment became a topic of public interest across Oklahoma after Rachel Tudor, Ph.D., was denied tenure and dismissed from her position as a professor at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in 2011. Tudor, who had transitioned from male to female during her time on the faculty, sued the university under Title VII, claiming discrimination on the basis of sex. Oklahomans for Equality presented her with the Bishop-Baldwin, Barton & Phillips Civil Rights Advocacy Award at its 2016 Equality Gala. Ten years after her dismissal from the faculty, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered her reinstatement in 2021. RESILIANCE With legislative and administrative attacks continuing to target transgender people, it’s important to remember that through community, they have found ways to flourish and move forward with dignity, grace and pride. Oklahomans for Equality presented the Lynn Riggs Performing Arts Award to transgender baritone Lucia Lucas in 2019 after she made history by performing the lead role in the Tulsa Opera’s presentation of “Don Giovanni” at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center in May of that year. This was the first opera appearance by a trans woman in a principal role in the United States. A film about Lucas’ journey was shown at Tulsa’s Circle Cinema that April, with a mixer with the artist held before the showing and a presentation afterward by Tulsa Opera Artistic Director Tobias Picker about the significance of the transgender movement in opera and performing arts. And on this year’s Transgender Day of Visibility, March 31, Tulsa-based Paully Steele staged an all-trans fashion show at the Equality Center presented by her GENDER magazine in partnership with Twisted Arts and OkEq. The participants were “ready to TEAR UP the runway and celebrate trans creativity, visibility, and community,” a social media post said. Oklahomans for Equality itself has put transgender employees and board members front and center over the years, with Alex Wade, a former OkEq medical services director, serving as deputy director and then interim executive director over the years from 2016 to the early 2020s. Sharon Queen, a transgender Navy veteran who was the Equality Center’s events coordinator, also coordinated the Gender Support Program and helped coordinate a Support Our Troops Rally at the Equality Center in 2017 after President Donald Trump indicated that the government would no longer allow transgender people to serve in the military. Then-OkEq board member Alyssa Bryant spoke at that event, saying in advance that “OkEq will continue to fight the ongoing attempts by regressive forces in our culture, no matter what title or office they hold, to exclude our members from the life and defense of our country.” Krissy Dudley served as OkEq’s administrative coordinator from 2019-2022, and Anna Puhl, who identifies as nonbinary, has recently returned as the Lynn Riggs Theater’s audio and lighting engineer. Puhl raised the nonbinary flag over the Equality Center for the first time during Nonbinary Awareness Week in July 2020. �Oklahomans for Equality continues to bring together and fight for all the diverse aspects of our 2SLGBTQIA+ community. We know that our collection does not reflect the complete history of transgender people in Oklahoma, so we welcome the submission of documents, memorabilia and details that would make our archives more representative. Please contact OkEq at 918-743-4297 or at historyproject@okeq.org if you have items to submit, and visit our History Project website at history.okeq.org to find more examples of how you fit into our history. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 24, 2026 10th Circuit Court 10th Circuit Court of Appeals 2026 Al Carlozzi Alex Wade Alyssa Bryant Anna Puhl Arin Andrews Be Our Voice Give a Day Bishop-Baldwin Barton and Phillips Civil Rights Advocacy Award Bridge v. Oklahoma State Department of Education Brittany Novotny Brittany Stewart Charlie Meadows Circle Cinema Community Service Council Community Service Council of Greater Tulsa Conor Cleary Dennis Neill Dennis R. Neill Dennis R. Neill Equality Center Department of Housing and Urban Development Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Dewey Barlett discrimination Dr. Al Carlozzi Dr. Laura Arrowsmith Dr. Shauna Lawlis Elliot Parker Equality Gala 2016 Equality Gala 2022 Executive Director Hailey Briggs Fowler v. 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Drummond Pyramid Project Rachel Tudor Rethinking Normal Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition Ryan Walters Sally Kern Save Women's Sports Act SB 904 Senate Bill 904 Sharon Queen Shauna Lawlis Some Assembly Required Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen Southeastern Oklahoma State University STAR State Superintendent Ryan Walters Support Our Troops Support Our Troops Rally Support Our Troops Rally 2017 Supreme Court Taylor Burns TCF The Danish Girl Title VII Tobias Picker TOHR TOHR Pyramid Project TOHR Torch Torch trans athletes trans programming trans programs Transgender Transgender Day of Visibility Transgender History Month Transgender Rights Tulsa City Council Tulsa Community Foundation Tulsa Community Foundation (TCF) Tulsa Family News Tulsa Flyer Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights (TOHR) Tulsa Opera Tulsa Reaches Out Tulsa Reaches Out Project Tulsa Star Tulsa World Twisted Arts UCLA UCLA School of Law Understanding Transgender Healthcare and Wellness Understanding Transgender Healthcare and Wellness webinar https://history-okeq-org-red5.dev.unicomm.me/files/original/8b7c9d72a84e915c1191a9d6c29ab1d4.pdf a29770896e0ab29e037fc23ede39718a PDF Text Text 9/15/26, 4:23 PM Days 501-600: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made Days 501-600: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made Transgender Americans, including student athletes and military veterans, have remained a consistent target. NICO DIALESANDRO SEP 12, 2026 31 1 10 Share Photo by the White House. https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/days-501-600-every-anti-lgbtq-move?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2837882&post_id=215278647… 1/18 �9/15/26, 4:23 PM Days 501-600: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made Over the past 100 days, President Donald Trump and his administration have intensified their campaign against LGBTQ people, with transgender Americans the most consistent target. Federal agencies have threatened schools and healthcare providers with investigations, funding cuts and legal action over gender-affirming policies and trans care. Several lower courts have blocked and limited some of the administration’s efforts while the Supreme Court has upheld Trump-supported stat bans on trans athletes. Here is a chronological list of the administration’s latest actions centered on LGBT Americans, along with responses to those actions—from court rulings to research reports. June 5, 2026 The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Cleveland Clinic come to an agreement to gender-affirming care for transgender minors, including the prescription of pube blockers and the provision of hormone therapy. Under the deal, the Ohio medica center admits no liability and denies all allegations but agrees to pay $308,000 to resolve false billing allegations and commits an additional $2 million for detransition care. June 7, 2026 U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth issues an injunction blocking the Federal Bureau of Prisons from transferring 14 transgender women to men’s prisons. Th follows Trump’s 2025 executive order “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” which declared sex immutable and sought the removal of incarcerated trans women fro women’s prisons. June 9, 2026 https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/days-501-600-every-anti-lgbtq-move?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2837882&post_id=215278647… 2/18 �9/15/26, 4:23 PM Days 501-600: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration announces its intention to reinstate the LGBTQ option on the 988 suicide hotline, which the Trump administration had axed last year. However, later reporting reveals The Trevor Project, the nonprofit originally behind the LGBTQ option, is being shut out from collaborating on the relaunched program, leading advocates to express concern about its implementation. June 10, 2026 Three national HIV medical associations and two healthcare providers sue the Trump administration over new restrictions on the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Progr the country’s largest federal safety-net program for low-income people living wit HIV. The new grant conditions prohibit providers from using federal money for gender-affirming care or to promote what the administration calls “gender ideology.” Plaintiffs say the policy also prevents medical staff from acknowledgin and respecting transgender patients’ identities. June 11, 2026 The Department of Education’s (DOE) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) accuses four Kansas school districts of failing to comply with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The OCR alleges the school districts violated federal civil rights law by allowing transgender students to access bathrooms, locker rooms a in some cases, sports teams aligned with their gender identity. The OCR says the districts “must come into compliance with Title IX or risk further enforcement action,” which could include the loss of federal funding. During a press event, Trump falsely claims that six states take away children from their parents and subject them to “transgender mutilization.” It is unclear what h is referring to, leading many on social media to question his lucidity. Research published in 2024 in the journal JAMA Network Open found that gender-affirmi https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/days-501-600-every-anti-lgbtq-move?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2837882&post_id=215278647… 3/18 �9/15/26, 4:23 PM Days 501-600: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made surgeries on minors are rare and that the majority of them are breast reductions both cisgender males and transgender people. June 12, 2026 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) issues a directive ordering VA health facilities to eliminate initiatives focused on gender identity. One program, LGBT Veteran Care Coordinators, which was initially slated to remain in operation wit the reference to LGBTQ people removed from its name, was eventually dismantl altogether in July. June 16, 2026 The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration proposes collecting information about gender-affirming care from federally supported health centers. Under the proposal, the centers wo be required to report whether they provide puberty blockers, hormone therapy o transition-related surgeries to patients under 19, regardless of which funding source pays for the care. Advocates warn the data could help federal investigator identify and target providers. June 17, 2026 The Federal Trade Commission and the Republican attorneys general of Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska and Texas sue the World Professional Association for Transgend Health. The lawsuit accuses the organization of using deceptive claims to promo gender-affirming care for minors. The DOE opens a Title IX investigation into North Carolina’s Buncombe County Schools for allowing transgender girls to use girls’ restrooms. In its announceme the DOE repeatedly refers to the trans female students as male. https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/days-501-600-every-anti-lgbtq-move?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2837882&post_id=215278647… 4/18 �9/15/26, 4:23 PM Days 501-600: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made June 18, 2026 The DOE opens three investigations into Michigan school districts. The investigations concern transgender students’ participation in athletics and acces locker rooms. Parents of students protest transgender students’ participation in sports. Screenshot from CBS News. June 23, 2026 The DOE launches investigations into the Maryland State Department of Educat and school districts in Montgomery, Prince George’s and Frederick counties. Th department alleges policies allowing transgender students to use facilities and participate on sports teams corresponding with their gender identity violate Titl IX. https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/days-501-600-every-anti-lgbtq-move?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2837882&post_id=215278647… 5/18 �9/15/26, 4:23 PM Days 501-600: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made Eight activists, three of whom are trans, are sentenced to prison terms of 30-100 years for their connection or participation in an anti-ICE protest in Texas last ye The case was the Trump administration’s first major legal action in its crackdow on so-called antifa terrorists. Antifa is not an organization but rather a decentralized movement focused on militant opposition to fascism. June 24, 2026 A federal judge blocks the DOJ from using grand jury subpoenas to obtain the medical records of transgender patients who received gender-affirming care as minors at New York hospitals. U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla finds tha Trump’s executive order that seeks to end gender-affirming care for minors is lik an unconstitutional attempt to “demonize” and “eradicate an entire population o transgender people,” rather than a legitimate criminal inquiry. The decision represents another setback for the administration’s ongoing effort to obtain priv medical information from transgender minors. June 26, 2026 Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission delivers its draft report on “emerging threats to religious liberty” to the president. The report portrays opposition to transgender healthcare and LGBTQ-inclusive schools as protected religious conduct. It presents Texas surgeon Eithan Haim as a victim of religious persecut for leaking information about transgender patients at Texas Children’s Hospital highlights parents who claim schools pushed “gender ideology” on their children The DOE sends an enforcement letter to Jefferson County Public Schools in Colorado. It threatens the district’s federal funding over policies allowing transgender students to access sports teams, bathrooms, locker rooms and overnight accommodations consistent with their gender identity. June 30, 2026 https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/days-501-600-every-anti-lgbtq-move?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2837882&post_id=215278647… 6/18 �9/15/26, 4:23 PM Days 501-600: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made In a statement titled “Supreme Court Bolsters President Trump’s Push to Elimin Transgender Insanity,” the White House celebrates the high court’s 6-3 decision uphold transgender sports bans in Idaho and West Virginia. The ruling, which rejects the trans plaintiffs’ equal protection claims, has implications for 25 other states with similar laws to Idaho and West Virginia. The DOE and DOJ announce they will take joint “enforcement measures” agains Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools after alleging the district violated federal parental rights law maintaining a policy that prevents school officials from disclosing a student’s “transgender status or gender nonconforming presentation others, including parents.” Enforcement measures could include judicial proceedings and the loss of federal funding, according to the departments. A federal court certifies a nationwide class of transgender military personnel, paving the way for a potential class action lawsuit challenging Trump’s military ban. The decision temporarily protects current transgender service members fro being discharged while the lawsuit proceeds. July 2, 2026 A federal judge blocks the DOJ from obtaining identifying information and med records for transgender patients who received gender-affirming care as minors a Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts fi that patients are likely to prove the government’s demand violates their constitutional right to medical privacy. He describes the subpoenas as part of a “bad-faith campaign” to intimidate hospitals into ending lawful gender-affirmin care. https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/days-501-600-every-anti-lgbtq-move?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2837882&post_id=215278647… 7/18 �9/15/26, 4:23 PM Days 501-600: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts. July 13, 2026 The Department of Health and Human Services abandons a proposed rule that sought to block Medicare and Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to trans youth. (While a similar rule is implemented in August, it is greatly reduced in scope and only applies to Medicaid.) July 14, 2026 https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/days-501-600-every-anti-lgbtq-move?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2837882&post_id=215278647… 8/18 �9/15/26, 4:23 PM Days 501-600: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made HHS formally eliminates a Biden-era rule requiring states and tribes to ensure LGBTQ foster children have access to affirming placements and supportive serv and are protected against harassment, mistreatment and abuse. The Trump administration had previously joined litigation against the Biden-era protections prior to removing them through the federal rulemaking process. July 15, 2026 During a speech at the U.S. Army War College, Trump falsely claims that companies receiving money under the CHIPS and Science Act, a federal statute t authorizes spending to boost semiconductor manufacturing, were required to hir transgender executives: “If you weren’t transgender ... you didn’t qualify.” The wo “transgender” does not appear anywhere in the law. July 16, 2026 The DOJ tells the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that it plans to ask t Supreme Court to restore Trump’s ban on transgender military personnel. It also asks the federal appeals court to delay enforcement of a decision protecting curr service members while the administration prepares its petition. July 21, 2026 HIV/AIDS-focused research foundation amfAR publishes a report finding that more than 1,700 HIV clinics have closed and over 16,000 jobs have been lost as a result of the Trump administration’s funding cuts to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR. July 26, 2026 Days after making a joke comparing CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins to trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trump https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/days-501-600-every-anti-lgbtq-move?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2837882&post_id=215278647… 9/18 �9/15/26, 4:23 PM Days 501-600: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made posts a bizarre AI-generated image merging their likenesses to Truth Social. July 27, 2026 The DOE and DOJ announce they are taking “significant action” against school districts in Maryland and Michigan over policies that prevent transgender stude from being outed to their parents. The administration accuses Anne Arundel County Public Schools and Ann Arbor Public Schools of “secretly transitioning” children in violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Such violations could lead to judicial proceedings and loss of federal funding. July 28, 2026 The DOE opens investigations into Denver Public Schools and Washington’s Be School District. Bethel is probed over a Pride display that reportedly included testosterone vials, while Denver is investigated over a classroom assignment that allegedly required students of the same sex to kiss. The teacher who had given sa assignment had been fired in a unanimous decision by the district school board over a month before the investigation began. July 29, 2026 The DOE opens an investigation into the Minnesota Department of Education o dolls designed to teach children about gender identity. The MyGender Dolls hav interchangeable clothing and anatomy and use gender-neutral names. Federal officials call the materials “perverted ideologies” and threaten consequences und the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment. The DOE finds that Burlington Public Schools in Massachusetts violated federal law by requiring students to participate in a health survey after their parents opt them out. The Youth Risk Behavior Survey, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, includes questions about sexual orientation and gender https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/days-501-600-every-anti-lgbtq-move?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2837882&post_id=21527864… 10/18 �9/15/26, 4:23 PM Days 501-600: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made identity. In a statement, a spokesperson for the district says, “The District identified and addressed this matter in 2024 and 2025, and we no longer have a contract with the outside vendor that drafted the original survey in question” an that they will respond to the DOE’s findings “expeditiously.” July 30, 2026 The DOE demands that California and Washington explain how they will change policies preventing transgender students from being outed to their parents. The department cites recent court rulings and warns that it will consider further acti if the states do not revise their guidance. The states’ current policies dictate that teachers not inform parents of their child’s sexual and gender identities if doing is likely to lead to abuse in the home. Aug. 3, 2026 The New York Times reports that transgender troops who appeal their removal under the trans military ban are being handled in secretive closed-door hearings similar to those used to discipline troops for domestic abuse, theft or drug use. T Times spoke with an attorney who said some troops were barred from attending their own hearings because they refused to present as their assigned gender at birth. The administration did not respond to the Times’ report. Aug. 5, 2026 The DOJ reaches an agreement with Connecticut Children’s Medical Center requiring it to stop providing puberty blockers, hormone therapy and transitionrelated surgeries to minors. The hospital also agrees to a civil penalty and dedica $500,000 to services for people seeking to reverse their transitions. Connecticut Children’s denies wrongdoing and admits no liability. Aug. 11, 2026 https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/days-501-600-every-anti-lgbtq-move?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2837882&post_id=21527864… 11/18 �9/15/26, 4:23 PM Days 501-600: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finalizes a rule prohibiting fede Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) funding from being used for gender-affirming care for minors. The rule applies to Medicaid patients under 18 and CHIP patients under 19 and covers puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgeries. States can continue paying for the care with state-only funding, but the federal restriction takes effect Oct. 13. https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/days-501-600-every-anti-lgbtq-move?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2837882&post_id=21527864… 12/18 �9/15/26, 4:23 PM Days 501-600: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/days-501-600-every-anti-lgbtq-move?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2837882&post_id=21527864… 13/18 �9/15/26, 4:23 PM Days 501-600: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s official portrait (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). Aug. 12, 2026 HHS releases a 64-page report titled “Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of ‘Gender Medicine.’” The report accuses hospitals, providers and medical associations of profiting from transgen healthcare and misusing billing codes. Contributors include representatives from the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Independent Women’s Forum and Center fo Christian Virtue, organizations with histories of opposing transgender rights. Using the report as justification, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. refers mor than 100 providers to the agency’s inspector general for possible violations of federal billing and healthcare laws. Aug. 14, 2026 The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revives a DOJ subpoena seeking informati from QueerDoc, a telehealth provider specializing in gender-affirming care. A lower court previously quashed the subpoena after finding that it lacked a legitimate law-enforcement purpose. The appeals court sends unresolved questio about the request’s scope and burden back to the lower court, meaning QueerDo not immediately required to provide every document requested by the governme A federal judge vacates a Trump administration policy excluding gender-affirmin care from the Affordable Care Act’s essential health benefits. The judge finds tha HHS failed to submit a legally required actuarial report before changing the benefits. The decision restores financial protections for the care in states that all it, including out-of-pocket limits and protections against annual or lifetime coverage caps. Aug. 17, 2026 https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/days-501-600-every-anti-lgbtq-move?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2837882&post_id=21527864… 14/18 �9/15/26, 4:23 PM Days 501-600: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made Speaking at the Iowa State Fair while campaigning for Republican Rep. Zach Nu Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth uses an anti-transgender slur: “At the Departme of War, we do training, not trannies,” said Hegseth, who oversees the departmen implementing Trump’s ban on transgender military personnel. Hegseth uses transphobic slur at Iowa State Fair CNN Watch on Pete Hegseth at the Iowa State Fair. Clip from CNN on YouTube. Aug. 19, 2026 Maryland’s Anne Arundel County Public Schools changes its transgender-studen privacy policy after the Trump administration threatens its federal funding. The new policy allows parents to access records mentioning a student’s gender identi transgender status, sexual orientation, chosen name and pronouns. Aug. 21, 2026 https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/days-501-600-every-anti-lgbtq-move?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2837882&post_id=21527864… 15/18 �9/15/26, 4:23 PM Days 501-600: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made At a campaign rally in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Trump falsely claims that hospitals are performing operations to reverse patients’ gender transitions at his order. No executive order requires hospitals to perform transition-reversal surgeries. The DOJ settlements with Texas Children’s Hospital, Cleveland Clinic and Connecticut Children’s instead require the hospitals to finance services for people seeking to detransition. Trump on route to Myrtle Beach. Photo by the White House. Aug. 24, 2026 During a White House back-to-school event, President Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon take aim at schools that affirm transgender students’ identities. Trump says a school that tells a child he or she is “trapped in the wron body” is “committing child abuse,” while McMahon claims that “the Biden https://www.unclosetedmedia.com/p/days-501-600-every-anti-lgbtq-move?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2837882&post_id=21527864… 16/18 �9/15/26, 4:23 PM Days 501-600: Every Anti-LGBTQ Move the Trump Administration Has Made administration allowed schools to secretly transition students without parents’ knowledge.” Aug. 30, 2026 In an interview with Fox News, Trump encourages his supporters to “pretend [he on the ballot” and go out and vote, adding if Republicans don’t win midterm elections, “transgender will never end”: “Our country’s going to be in sad shape, because we’re going to go through a lot of things. You’re going to have the taxes raised, you’re going to have crazy things happening, like the men in women’s spo will never end. None of this stuff—transgender will never end.” Additional reporting by Hope Pisoni. 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