Trump’s First 100 Days: Dismantling Civil Rights, Resegregating Schools and Workplaces

April 28. 2025

For Immediate Release
Apr 28, 2025

Media Contact
Nazirah Ahmad
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As we reach the 100-day mark of President Trump’s administration, Executive Director Noreen Farrell and other gender justice experts are speaking out about the administration’s assault on civil rights protections that have been critical to advancing equality for women, communities of color, and LGBTQ+ people.

“In just 100 days, we’ve witnessed an aggressive and systematic dismantling of decades of civil rights progress,” Farrell said. “From gutting the Department of Education and other federal agencies, to dismantling equal opportunity protections and erasing LGBTQ+ people from federal recognition, this administration is trying to methodically resegregate our schools and workplaces.”

The past 100 days have featured many moves by the White House to gut any meaningful support systems the government provides for underserved and marginalized Americans. This systematic deprioritization has created a crisis where millions of Americans are more vulnerable to discrimination and harm as those with racist, misogynistic, and homophobic views become increasingly emboldened by the rollback of civil rights protections.

These harmful actions and their effects include:

• A recent executive order eliminating disparate impact liability — a cornerstone of civil rights enforcement that opened career doors for women and people of color
• The weaponization and dismantling of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), including the illegal firing of EEOC commissioners and the order to OFCCP to immediately stop all investigations and enforcement 
• The erasure of nonbinary gender identities from federal recognition and the withdrawal by the EEOC from transgender worker discrimination actions
• Threat to educational equality by the gutting of the Department of Education through office closures and staffing cuts
• The widening gender and racial wage gaps, with women now earning only 83 cents for every dollar earned by men, and much worse for women of color
• The elimination of DEI programs and corporate America’s following the administration’s lead, threatening to reverse workplace integration
• Attacks on reproductive healthcare access, coupled with the dismantling of family support policies, create economic barriers that make motherhood increasingly unviable
• The administration’s intimidation of the judiciary, which marks a dangerous overreach threatening judicial independence

Equal Rights Advocates and our partners nationwide will continue fighting for the rights of women, LGBTQI+ people, low-income workers and families, immigrants, and students by challenging discriminatory and unlawful federal actions, pushing federal policies that combat these harms, and advancing state legislation to protect our communities from federal attacks.

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