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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 – Feb 23, 2025

| Feb 23, 2025

Links 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. Judge Anna C. Reyes of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., said that transgender people in the military do not […]

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TWIT Awards – Feb 23, 2025

| Feb 23, 2025

Links 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. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has made a reputation for himself as one who opposes using gender-affirming medical care to treat […]

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TNN: Trans News Now – Feb 17, 2025

| Feb 17, 2025

Links 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 week, Judge Brendan Hurson of the District of Maryland paused enforcement of President Trump’s executive order banning gender-affirming medical care […]

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TWIT Awards – Feb 17, 2025

| Feb 17, 2025

Links 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. As we mentioned in the news, the Department of Education wants to strip transgender athletes of the titles and awards that […]

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TWIT Awards – Feb 10, 2025

| Feb 10, 2025

Links 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. You might not think that any transgender person supports President Trump’s ban on transgender women in girls’ or women’s sports. Indeed, […]

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TNN: Trans News Now – Feb 10, 2025

| Feb 10, 2025

Links 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. Lambda Legal and the Human Rights Campaign have filed a law suit on behalf of a group of transgender people who […]

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TNN: Trans News Now – Feb 3, 2025

| Feb 3, 2025

Links 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 federal judge has temporarily blocked the implementation of President Trump’s executive order requiring that federal prisoners be housed according to […]

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TWIT Awards – Feb 3, 2025

| Feb 3, 2025

Links 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. As we mentioned in the news, President Trump signed three executive orders concerning transgender people this week. On Monday night, he […]

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TWIT Awards – Jan 27, 2025

| Jan 27, 2025

Links 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. As we mentioned in the news, President Donald Trump signed an executive order forbidding the government from recognizing any gender other […]

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TNN: Trans News Now – Jan 27, 2025

| Jan 27, 2025

Links 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. President Donald Trump was sworn in to his second term. He signed more than 70 executive orders on his first day […]

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TWIT Awards – Jan 20, 2025

| Jan 25, 2025

Links 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. As we mentioned in the news, the House of Representatives passed its bill banning transgender athletes nationwide. The bill fails to […]

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TNN: Trans News Now – Jan 20, 2025

| Jan 25, 2025

Links 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. President Biden said on Friday that, as far as he is concerned, the Equal Rights Amendment is part of the constitution. […]

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TWIT Awards – Jan 13, 2025

| Jan 18, 2025

Links 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 transgender woman in Florida got the sex marker on her driver’s license changed, then went on TikTok to share the […]

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TNN: Trans News Now – Jan 13, 2025

| Jan 18, 2025

Links 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. U.S. District Judge Danny reeves in Lexington, Kentucky, has given all school districts across the nation permission to ignore the rule […]

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TNN: Trans News Now – Jan 6, 2025

| Jan 11, 2025

Links 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 Ohio Secretary of State has revised the forms for candidates running for office. They now specifically say that a candidate […]

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TWIT Awards – Jan 6, 2025

| Jan 11, 2025

Links 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. As we mentioned in the news, at the top of thee GOP’s list of priorities is trying to enshrine the idea […]

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TWIT Awards – Dec 29, 2024

| Jan 11, 2025

Links 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. As we mentioned in the news, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a law suit the purpose of which is […]

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TNN: Trans News Now – Dec 29, 2024

| Jan 11, 2025

Links 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 American Civil Liberties Union announced that it is seeking an en-banc review of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision […]

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TWIT Awards – Dec 22, 2024

| Jan 11, 2025

Links 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 mass shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, ended with a teacher, a student, and the shooter all dead, and six students wounded. […]

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TNN: Trans News Now – Dec 22, 2024

| Jan 11, 2025

Links 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 in Montana has issued a preliminary injunction preventing the state from enforcing a law which would prevent the amendment […]

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TWIT Awards – Dec 16, 2024

| Dec 21, 2024

Links 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. U.S. Representative Nancy Mace, the politician behind the bathroom ban at the Capitol, called police to report an incident with an […]

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TNN: Trans News Now – Dec 16, 2024

| Dec 21, 2024

Links 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 Montana state Supreme Court issued a ruling upholding the lower court’s stay on implementing the state’s ban on gender-affirming care […]

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TWIT Awards – Dec 9, 2024

| Dec 21, 2024

Links 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 mentioned in the news that some Montana lawmakers tried, and failed, to pass a rule which would have required that […]

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TNN: Trans News Now – Dec 9, 2024

| Dec 21, 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. The big story this week was that the Supreme Court heard arguments on United States v. Skrmentti, […]

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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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