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TNN: Trans News Now – April 28, 2025

ceciliab | Apr 28, 2025

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A memo shows that the Pentagon has resumed gender-affirming medicine, including surgery, for military personnel and their families. This follows court decisions against President Trump’s executive order banning transgender people from continuing to serve in the military. This story comes from Them.

After the lawyers for the Department of Justice had trouble answering questions from a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Justice Department has appealed straight to the Supreme Court, in its attempt to ban transgender people from serving in the armed forces. The Hill has this story.

Meanwhile, at least a dozen Democrats in the U.S. Senate have signed on to a letter asking Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth how the department is complying with court injunctions to prevent implementation of its ban on transgender people in the armed services. This story comes from NPR.

Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memo directing employees of the Justice Department to enforce President Trump’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors. She says that existing laws forbidding “female circumcision” also forbid gender-affirming medical care. NBC News has this story.

KRON-TV reports that a truck driver has been found guilty of the murder of a transgender woman in 1994. The case had gone cold, but DNA evidence proved sufficient to get the conviction.

The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled this week that a transgender teenager cannot legally change his name until he is 21. Both parents had given permission for their child to change his name, which typically is supposed to be sufficient under the law. The Advocate has this story.

The state of Minnesota is suing the Department of Justice, to retain its right to regulate who may play women’s sports in their state. This story comes from Erin In The Morning.

According to LGBTQ Nation, the staff at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have been instructed that cases in which a transgender person is alleging employment discrimination are to be given the lowest priority.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will defund the LGBTQ+ Specialized Service of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, according to a report by Them.

Prime Video announced that there will be no season two for Clean Slate, Laverne Cox’s new comedy. Critics love the series, giving it an 89% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. PinkNews has this story.

Thousands of protestors showed up to make their voices heard after the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled that transgender women are not women for the purposes of the Equalities Act. This story comes from PinkNews.