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Arts Groups Sue National Endowment for the Arts over Trump’s Order on “Gender Ideology”

HeadlineMar 10, 2025

A group of arts organizations focused on transgender and nonbinary communities has sued the National Endowment for the Arts, or NEA, after it imposed new grant requirements conforming to Trump’s executive order banning the promotion of so-called gender ideology. The ACLU, which is representing the plaintiffs, said, “This gag on artists’ speech has had a ripple effect across the entire art world, from Broadway to community arts centers.”

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