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TNN: Trans News Now – Dec 15, 2025

ceciliab | Dec 15, 2025

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The ban on gender-affirming care for members of military families was removed from the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2026. This means will continue to provide gender-affirming care for transgender family members who get their medical care through the military. Erin Reed has this story at Erin In The Morning.

A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the Trump administration may begin enforcing its ban on transgender people in the military. The Supreme Court would likely agree, if the case gets appealed to them. The one judge who disagreed wrote a very strong dissent. This story comes from The Hill.

The state of Texas has accused two doctors of fraudulent billing of the state’s Medicaid program. Texas law says that Medicaid will not pay for gender-affirming care for transgender minors. The doctors allegedly provided such care, and billed Medicaid for other services. Reuters has this story.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene says that GOP leaders in the House of Representatives promised her that there would be a vote on her bill to ban gender-affirming care for minors. She has said that she will resign on January 5, and the House will not meet often between now and then. Erin Reed takes a look at her bill in Erin In The Morning.

The Texas Department of Public Safety has banned four transgender people from visiting the Capitol building for one year. Their crime was using the restroom of the gender with which they identify. Texas law now requires them to use the restroom of the gender assigned them at birth. KXAN-TV has this story.

The U.S. Department of Justice is now defending some cisgender students who were suspended after they called a transgender student a “girl boy.” This story comes from Them.

In the state of New York, parents and students are suing Attorney General Leticia James over a state law which forbids them harassing transgender students. They claim that the law violates their free speech rights. LGBTQ Nation has this story.

Mother Jones reports that Congress is looking into forbidding transgender women from participating in athletics at military academies.

California Governor Gavin Newsom bragged on the Ezra Klein podcast that he has signed “more pro-trans legislation” than any other governor. The Advocate suspects that that is true, but points out that most keep track of pro-trans legislation state-by-state, not according to the governor.

California is a state which does not have a ban on gender-affirming care for minors. Nonetheless, Sutter Health became another health-care system which has stopped providing gender-affirming care to minors. The San Francisco Standard has this story.

The Trump Administration has new rules limiting the use of a non-binary sex classification in U.S. cancer registries. This story comes from KFF Health News.

A new study yet again shows that transgender people whose pronouns are respected show a far lower rate of suicide attempts. The Advocate has this story.

The FDA held a hearing on making testosterone more available to cisgender men who need to boost their testosterone levels. The 19th* News reports that the irony of the Trump administration promoting testosterone as a cure-all for cisgender men was not lost on transgender men.

Laverne Cox has a new memoir coming out. Transcendent will be released on June 9 of next year. Transgenderfeed has this story.

The National Gender Service of the Republic of Ireland has announced that it is closing the wait list, due to lack of resources. It is the only multidisciplinary clinic for transgender healthcare in Ireland. This story comes from RTE.

Pornhub released their search statistics for the year. The second-most popular porn search was “transgender.” It trailed only “lesbian.” It’s kind of ironic that, at a time when many people want to limit our rights, so many people want to see us having sex. The Advocate has this story.