TNN: Trans News Now – Aug 25, 2025

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More than 2.8 million people living in the United States identify as transgender, according to a new poll by the Williams Institute at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law. We constitute approximately 1% of the population 13 or older. They find that younger people are more likely to identify as transgender. Time magazine reports that the information came from two CDC studies, which no longer collect information on transgender people, in compliance with President Trump’s executive order recognizing only two genders and not recognizing changes in gender.

Illinois has become the first state to launch a LGBTQ+ legal hotline. It is called Pride Connect. This story comes from Them.

A man in the Detroit area is accused of strangling a woman to death after discovering that she is transgender. Click on Detroit has this story.

In Raleigh, North Carolina, a transgender woman reports that she was assaulted with a beer bottle. This story comes from WRAL-TV.

The Department of Justice has subpoenaed all written records of transgender patients under the age of 19. The subpoenas went out to children’s hospitals which have or had gender clinics for minors. The Advocate has this story.

The Trump administration has announced changes to government insurance, such that federal workers will no longer be able to get insurance coverage for gender-affirming care. This story comes from Them.

President Trump has threatened to defund California schools if the state does not ban transgender athletes from girls’ sporting events. There is no evidence that transgender athletes pose a real threat, but evidence is not needed when President Trump is involved. The Hill has this story.

A Texas constable has told a state Senate committee that they do not wish to be “the potty police.” Out.com has this story. Unfortunately, the state Senate nonetheless passed the bathroom bill aimed at transgender people.

Andrew Bailey, the former Missouri Attorney General who is well known for his transphobia, has been appointed to a high job in the FBI. This story comes from Erin In The Morning.

The state of Florida this week painted over the rainbow crosswalk in Orlando which commemorates the shooting at the Pulse nightclub. Citizens have twice repainted it, but the state keeps removing the rainbows. Erin Reed has this story.

Conversion therapy has been denounced by major medical organizations, including the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. It has been linked to depression, substance abuse, suicide, and other mental health issues. Several states have laws against using conversion therapy on minors. In Kentucky, Governor Andy Beshear issued an executive order banning conversion therapy, but the state legislature overturned that with a bill, then overrode the governor’s veto of the bill. Stateline thinks that conversion therapy may make a comeback in our very fragmented political scene.

PinkNews reports on a new study which finds that transgender youths are as consistent in their gender identities as their cisgender counterparts are consistent in theirs.

Terence Stamp passed away this week. He is remembered for several film roles, but one of the most famous was as Bernadette, a transgender woman, in the film The Adventres of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. A sequel was announced to be in the works, but obviously, Terence Stamp will not be in any sequel. In an opinion piece for The Advocate John Casey remembers how important the film was when it was first released.

Duolingo apologized to J.K. Rowling when it was discovered that a lesson in German contained the following dialogue: “Do you like the books with Harry Potter as a character?” “Yes, but in my opinion the author is cruel/mean.” This story comes from Out.com.

Bluesky stopped an online discussion as trans commenters got a bit too over-the-top in their criticism of J.K. Rowling this week. At least one commenter even got a 24-hour suspension for the incident. Out.com reports that the offending post wished a violent death upon the writer.

In Britain, a court ruled that a transgender woman “deceived” a man into thinking she was a “biological female,” in order to have sex with him. BBC News has this story.

To show how bad things are for trangender people in the U.K., Nottingham Against Transphobia staged a “die-in” outside the town Council House. This story comes from PinkNews.

Veronica Clifford-Carlos, a transgender woman from California, applied for asylum in the Netherlands, but her application was rejected. She has begun an appeal, which will be heard this week. Reuters has this story.

A transgender woman who was convicted of far-right extremist activities, has been sentenced to prison. She will be housed in a women’s prison. This has caused quite a controversy, according to Euronews.

As a new bathroom bill makes its way through the Texas legislature (during a special session which was supposed to be about funding relief from floods), the Texas Tribune has a story describing various anti-transgender bathroom bills which the Texas legislature has looked at through the years.

A non-binary biologist has been fired by the National Park Service for planting a transgender flag on a mountain in Yosemite National Park. This story comes from Them.

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