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Every week Cecilia Barzyk diligently scans the internet to assemble as much trans-related information from the weekly news as possible.

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TNN: Trans News Now – Dec 2, 2024

| Dec 6, 2024

Links in Trans News Now will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. We reported a while ago about an incident in which three high school student in Gloucester, Massachusetts, […]

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TWIT Awards – Dec 2, 2024

| Dec 6, 2024

The New York Times published an op-ed which complained about how transgender-rights activists are too thin-skinned and demand too much. Perhaps this is because we are denied rights which others take for granted. For complaining about how we don’t treat our opponents with kindness, the New York Times and author Jeremy Peters get a TWIT. […]

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TWIT Awards – Nov 28, 2024

| Nov 30, 2024

As we mentioned in the news, U.S. Representative Naancy Maace is pushing for a rule that restroom use in the U.S. Capitol will be by “biological sex.” She has admitted that this is “absolutely” about Representative-elect Sarah McBride. Representative Mace objected to an interviewer calling Representative-elect McBride a woman, saying, “She’s not a woman! It’s […]

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TNN: Trans News Now – Nov 28, 2024

| Nov 30, 2024

Links in Trans News Now will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. Last Wednesday, November 20, wa Transgender Day of Remembrance. The Human Rights Campaign has an assessment of […]

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TWIT Awards – Nov 18, 2024

| Nov 23, 2024

Some female pool players have hired a so-called expert to hep them prove that transgender females have an unfair advantage in competition. This is in response to one transgender female who has won four out of five tournaments. From the one very good player, they have generalized to say that all transgender women have an […]

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TWIT Awards – Nov 11, 2024

| Nov 15, 2024

The Donald Trump campaign chose as the theme for their last commercial Imaane Khelif, the boxer whom they labeled as a “biological male” because she failed one of several sex tests administered by an organization which the International Olympic Committee no longer recognizes. Ms. Khelif passed several other times when the same discredited agency gave […]

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TNN: Trans News Now – Nov 11, 2024

| Nov 15, 2024

Links in Trans News Now will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. There was some very bad news this week, but we will start with some good news. Sarah […]

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TNN: Trans News Now – Nov 4, 2024

| Nov 9, 2024 | Reply

Links in Trans News Now will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. This Tuesday, November 5, is Election Day in the U.S. Transgender rights have been the subject of […]

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TWIT Awards – Nov 4, 2024

| Nov 9, 2024 | Reply

Former President Donald Trump continues to use transgender people as a talking point in his campaign. Dressed in a safety orange vest, and after making his entrance in the passenger’s seat of a garbage truck, the former president said of Vice-President Kamala Harris, “She loves transgender operations all over the place, everybody should have one.” […]

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TWIT Awards – Oct 28, 2024

| Nov 1, 2024 | Reply

We mentioned in the news how Former President Donald Trump’s campaign has made a huge ad buy, playing over and over a commercial which attacks Kamala Harris for supporting a policy of gender-affirming medical care for prisoners. First off, as Vice President, Kamala Harris is not directly responsible for policies taken by the Biden administration. […]

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TNN: Trans News Now – Oct 28, 2024

| Nov 1, 2024 | Reply

Links in Trans News Now will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. Last week, we announced that the Supreme Court set the date for hearing the case opposing Tennessee’s […]

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TNN: Trans News Now – Oct 21, 2024

| Oct 25, 2024 | Reply

Links in Trans News Now will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. Laverne Cox made a guest appearance on The Daily Show, delivering a message in support of transgender […]

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TWIT Awards – Oct 21, 2024

| Oct 25, 2024 | Reply

Former President Donald Trump has said that he will ban “boys in girls’ sports” on day one of his next administration. He cites as evidence an incident in which a San Jose State University soccer player, who is widely assumed to be transgender, allegedly “slamme[ed] the ball hard off the head of an opponent. In […]

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TWIT Awards – Oct 14, 2024

| Oct 14, 2024 | Reply

As we mentioned in the news, the campaign of Former President Donald Trump has been repeating an ad which attacks Vice President Kamala Harris for her support of gender-affirming care for transgender people. It turns out that anti-transgender themes do no play well with the general electorate. The voters want to hear about the economy […]

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TNN: Trans News Now – Oct 14, 2024

| Oct 14, 2024 | Reply

Links in Trans News Now will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. A national survey conducted by the CDC finds that 3% of U.S. high school students identify as […]

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TWIT Awards – Oct 7, 2024

| Oct 12, 2024 | Reply

As we mentioned in the news, four universities have forfeited their games against the San Jose State University women’s volleyball team. onthe grounds that the team has a transgender player. While there is a good chance that the team with less talented players will lose to a team with more talented players, there is a […]

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TNN: Trans News Now – Oct 7, 2024

| Oct 12, 2024 | Reply

Links in Trans News Now will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. October 7 is the first Monday in October, and with that, the new session of the Supreme […]

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TWIT Awards – Sept 30, 2024

| Oct 4, 2024 | Reply

As we mentioned in the news, the Trump For President campaign released new ads, and indeed, they attack Vice-President Kamala Harris for her support of transgender people. The ads claim that they are telling the truth, but in fact, they are questionable at best. For misrepresentation, and for treating transgender people as some sort of […]

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TNN: Trans News Now – Sept 30, 2024

| Oct 4, 2024 | Reply

Links in Trans News Now will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. Kassim Omar, a Somali refugee and a trans woman, has died in Columbus, Ohio, as a result […]

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TWIT Awards – Sept 22, 2024

| Sep 25, 2024 | Reply

As we mentioned in the news, the Republican Party of Texas has unvailed their new ad, which accuses Democrats of supporting “sex changes for kids.” Of course, the Democrats are not pushing for all kids to get sex changes, only thise which a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, and even then, only when they understand what […]

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TNN: Trans News Now – Sept 22, 2024

| Sep 25, 2024 | Reply

Links in Trans News Now will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. The inaugural Gender Liberation Marcch was held last Saturday in Washington, D.C. There were speakers, and a […]

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TWIT Awards – Sept 16, 2024

| Sep 21, 2024 | Reply

As we mentioned last week, Former President Donald Trump has made strange claims that schools or educators are deciding which students will get gender-confirmation surgery. Of course, this is not really happening–but the lack of reality does not matter to his base. Matt Gaetz appears to have repeated the line in the spin room, while […]

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TNN: Trans News Now – Sept 16, 2024

| Sep 21, 2024 | Reply

Links in Trans News Now will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. Sarah McBride won the Delaware Congressional Primary, and will be the Democrat’s nominee for the state’s only […]

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TWIT Awards – Sept 9, 2024

| Sep 21, 2024 | Reply

As we mentioned in the news, the state of Texas has started a policy of not changing the gender markers on drivers’ licenses. For not caring that your identification documents do not reflect the lives that some of your people live, and for choosing which people will be deliberately excluded from having identification documents which […]

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TNN: Trans News Now – Sept 9, 2024

| Sep 21, 2024 | Reply

Links in Trans News Now will open in this window. To return to this page use the Back button on your browser. If the link opens in a new tab, close the tab to return to this page. A judge granted a partial injunction of Idaho’s ban on gender-affirming care. Specifically, the judge has granted […]

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TWIT Awards – Sept 2, 2024

| Sep 21, 2024 | Reply

The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating an accusation that members of the “Harris-Biden Administration” pressured members of WPATH to remove age recommendations for surgery from its endorsement of gender-affirming medical care. First off, anyone who knows WPATH will know that they feel that surgery is the best way to deal with gender […]

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