May 13, 2025 — Timeline — Standing Record

May 13

ICE and GEO Group denied diabetic detainee Elton Purvis insulin and care, causing repeated hospitalizations at Pearsall facility

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and GEO Group, which operates the South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall, Texas, confiscated detainee Elton Purvis's insulin and malaria medication and denied him food meeting his diabetic and religious dietary needs during his May-to-December 2025 detention. Purvis, a 55-year-old legal permanent resident and Type 1 diabetic, was found unresponsive and hospitalized for dangerously abnormal blood sugar at least three times — the first on June 2, 2025 — after guards repeatedly ignored his pleas for help and his more than 100 grievances to ICE went unanswered.

Corrections abuse

May 13

Interagency task force terminated additional ~$450M in Harvard research grants after president publicly defied administration demands

On May 13, 2025, the interagency Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism announced the termination of approximately $450 million in additional federal research grants to Harvard University — on top of the $2.2 billion already frozen since April 14, 2025. The escalation came one week after Harvard President Alan Garber publicly stated the university would not comply with the administration's demands to alter governance, admissions, hiring, and student conduct policies. The task force declared Harvard had "forfeited the school's claim to taxpayer support." A federal court later ruled the entire Harvard funding campaign constituted unlawful retaliation for First Amendment-protected speech.

May 13

Montana Gov. Gianforte signed HB819, banning Pride flags from schools and government buildings

On May 13, 2025, Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed House Bill 819, restricting the flags that may be displayed in K-12 schools and on state and local government buildings to the U.S. flag, Montana's state flag, other official government flags, and school mascot flags — explicitly excluding Pride flags and other nongovernmental banners. Sponsored by Rep. Braxton Mitchell, the bill passed the Montana House 57-42 and the Senate 32-18.

Discriminatory policy

May 13

Montana Gov. Gianforte signed HB682 imposing liability on gender-affirming care providers and framing the care as fraudulent

On May 13, 2025, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed House Bill 682, sponsored by Rep. Greg Kmetz, which imposes heightened civil liability on medical providers who deliver gender-affirming care and characterizes that care as harmful and fraudulent. The law revises Montana statute governing gender transition treatment and follows the state's 2023 ban on such care for minors (SB99) and a related 2025 liability measure, Senate Bill 218.

May 13

Montana Gov. Gianforte signed HB690 excluding non-affirmation of a child's gender identity from child abuse and neglect definitions

On May 13, 2025, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed House Bill 690, sponsored by Rep. Bill Mercer, which revises the state's child abuse and neglect statutes to exclude "referring to or raising a child in a manner consistent with the child's biological sex, including in the making of related mental health or medical decisions" from the legal definitions of abuse, neglect, and physical or psychological harm. The law passed the Montana House 57-42 and the Senate 34-16 before reaching the governor's desk.

May 13

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed SB418 mandating birth-sex segregation of prison facilities and barring transgender inmates from opposite-sex housing

On May 13, 2025, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed Senate Bill 418, requiring the Department of Corrections and its contracted facilities to designate every multi-occupancy restroom, changing room, and sleeping quarter for the exclusive use of either males or females and barring incarcerated people from facilities designated for the opposite sex, with narrow exceptions for staff, medical, law-enforcement, and emergency access. The law creates a private cause of action, with attorney fees, for individuals who encounter an opposite-sex person in a designated facility. It took effect November 1, 2025.

May 13

Oklahoma Gov. Stitt signed SB658 barring denial of foster or adoptive applicants over beliefs about sexual orientation and gender identity

On May 13, 2025, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed Senate Bill 658, which bars the Oklahoma Department of Human Services from denying a prospective foster or adoptive parent on the basis of the applicant's religious or moral beliefs about sexual orientation and gender identity, and prohibits DHS from requiring applicants to affirm state positions on those subjects as a condition of approval. The measure, sponsored by Sen. Julie Daniels, took effect November 1, 2025. Advocates for LGBTQ youth warned that it legitimizes belief-based refusal to support affirming placements within the state child-welfare system.