Introduction
- This submission provides an update to our 2025 report on the United States (U.S.) government’s compliance with its human rights obligations to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and non-binary (LGBT) people for the period from April 2025 to April 2026.
- We bring attention to three areas of heightened concern: discrimination, ill-treatment, and denials of protection for LGBT asylum seekers, refugees, and immigrants; government actions to exclude transgender people from public life, travel, and evidence-based health care; and the erasure of sexual and gender minority people from official data.