With the former president While Donald Trump is actively running away from Project 2025, those responsible for the controversial policy and personnel program claim that they have already achieved their goals – and that they will continue to present Trump’s team with their lists of policy recommendations and potential new hires for a second term.

But the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank that launched Project 2025, is not waiting for a second Trump administration to begin implementing its agenda—it is already working on it.

As journalist Chris Geidner reports, the Heritage Foundation filed a lawsuit last week seeking to block the Biden administration’s policies to protect LGBTQ employees from workplace discrimination. The lawsuit also seeks to limit the powers of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), goals that align with points made in the project’s 887-page policy blueprint.

In the lawsuit, the Heritage Foundation complains that protections for LGBTQ workers — which require employers to use workers’ preferred pronouns and allow them to use restrooms that match their gender identity — could force the organization to spend money updating its dress code and renovating its restrooms.

The complaint notes that Heritage Foundation employees are required to “come to work in professional attire” and that “Heritage employees are required to dress in a manner that traditionally corresponds to their biological sex.” It goes on to say that “employees are required to use Heritage’s restrooms, showers, and care facilities in accordance with their biological sex and to use pronouns in the workplace and in their work products that correspond to the individuals’ biological sex.”

The organization fears it will have to invest “significant time and resources into creating or updating policies, practices, or training programs” and may have to spend “significant financial resources” to convert its “existing gender-specific intimate facilities into single-occupancy units.” (The Heritage Foundation reported revenue of $106 million and net assets of $332 million in 2022.)

The foundation also warns that complying with President Joe Biden’s LGBTQ protections will cause “significant brand and reputational damage, resource costs (such as employee resignations, fewer applications for open positions, and lost donor support), and moral costs (such as lower employee morale, loss of employee privacy and safety, and forced affirmation of philosophical, moral, and ideological beliefs).”

The Heritage Foundation calls this “unacceptable” because the organization is “one of the most prominent public voices against the very gender ideology” expressed in the Biden administration’s guidelines.

By filing the lawsuit with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in the Amarillo Division of the Northern District of Texas, the Heritage Foundation ensured that the case would be heard by an ultra-conservative Trump-appointed judge, Matthew Kacsmaryk.

Conservative organizations have targeted Kacsmaryk in recent years because he is one of the most reliable right-wing players in the federal judiciary. A former attorney at a conservative Christian litigation firm, Kacsmaryk sought to ban the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide. The case was apparently too contrived for the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority; this summer, the court issued a unanimous ruling protecting access to mifepristone, at least for now.

Kacsmaryk had previously blocked two attempts by Biden to protect LGBTQ Americans. Before becoming a judge, Kacsmaryk wrote an op-ed in the National Catholic Register complaining about the number of gender identity options users could choose from on Facebook.

He warned: “As sexually revolutionary definitions of marriage, sexuality and sexual identity are incorporated into common usage and codified in standard anti-discrimination policy formulas, religious organizations cannot assume that their external contracts, grants or cooperation agreements reflect their sincerely held religious beliefs.”