A U.S. district court judge on Friday, Aug. 1, blocked the National Institutes of Health from terminating hundreds of research grants that funded research addressing the health of sexual and gender minorities, including critical HIV research.

The court ruling followed the hearing in GLMA v. NIH, a lawsuit filed by Lambda Legal on behalf of GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality and 16 individual health researchers whose funding was eliminated or whose grant applications have been unlawfully withheld from review.

“Today, the court saw NIH’s directives prohibiting funding for research specifically related transgender people’s health and the intersectional health needs of LGBTQI+ people as what they are: discriminatory actions that violate our constitution and federal law,” sa

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