TNN: Trans News Now – Aug 17, 2026
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The Trump administration has abandoned its attempt to get medical records of those patients receiving gender-affirming care at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children’s Hospital. The Advocate has this story.
The Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services will no longer pay for gender-affirming care for minors, after October 13. This story comes from the Associated Press.
WGBH reports that the state of Massachusetts will cover the cost of gender-affirming care for transgender teens in the state.
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell was involved in a dispute with a transgender activist, who asked rather pointedly why the state was not suing hospitals which ended gender-affirming care for transgender minors. The Advocate has this story.
Vice-President J.D. Vance this week encouraged the Department of Justice to sue hospitals which bill the government for gender-affirming care for minors by using what he regards as fraudulant billing prctices. This story comes from Politico.
Juju Nadeau was stabbed to death while walking in Portland, Maine. She was 21 years old, and a Black transgender woman. This story comes from Them.
A new study finds that transgender men who had top surgery are not getting screened for the risk of breast cancer. LGBTQ Nation has this story.
Lilly Wachowski says she is having trouble raising the money to film her new political thriller The Hunted, despite the low budget of $10 million. She thinks that the problem is the “wall-to-wall trans cast.” This story comes from PinkNews.
Two former NBA players, Royce White and Enes Kanter Freedom, have declared themselves trans women and asked to be eligible for the next WNBA draft. The league denounced their “bad-faith efforts” as a publicity stunt. You can read about this in Them.
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