TNN: Trans News Now – Dec 22, 2024

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A judge in Montana has issued a preliminary injunction preventing the state from enforcing a law which would prevent the amendment or alteration of information on a birth certificate, specifically the sex listed. This is only a preliminary ruling, and it is likely that the state will appeal this ruling before the trial takes place, but it does indicate that this judge thinks that the state overstepped its authority when it passed this law. The ACLU has this story.

We reported last week that the U.S House of Representatives passed a military spending package which specifically forbids the use of these funds for gender-affirming medical care for children of military families under the age of 18. This week, the Senate passed the bill, without removing that provision. This story comes from CNN.

An 18-year-old transgender Black woman, Cameron Mamal Miikquise Thompson, was found shot to death in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Police have arrested a juvenile suspect in connection with the case. The Alabama Political Reporter has this story.

Police in Atlanta have arrested a suspect in the assault of multiple transgender people. This story comes from WDRW-TV.

The Los Angeles Times has an article about transgender people who work for the government, who are waiting to see what happens once President-elect Trump takes office.

PBS NewsHour took a look at how President-elect Trump might implement a ban on transgender athletes in women’s sports.

NCAA President Charlie Baker appeared before a Senate panel this week to discuss sports gambling. When asked by Senator Dick Durbin, he said that there were 510,000 athletes in NCAA-sanctioned sports programs, and fewer than 10 are openly transgender. Nonetheless, Senators Josh Hawley of Missouri and John Kennedy of Louisiana insisted that it was unfair to have any transgender women in women’s sports. This story comes from The Hill.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said that prisoners in the state cannot get gender confirmation surgery. That is actually a matter for the courts, not the governor nor the state legislature. Out.com has this story.

A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy has agreed to plead guilty to assaulting a transgender man. The civil rights charge could carry a penalty of up to ten years in prison. This story comes from KCAL-TV.

A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found unanimously that two doctors from Texas do not have standing to sue over the Biden administration’s rule barring discrimination against transgender patients, since the doctors did not have any transgender patients whom they refused to serve. Reuters has this story.

A new study suggests that transgender and gender-nonconforming patients are more likely to experience chronic pain than are cisgender patients. Speculation is that this could be related to high rates of anxiety and depression, or perhaps a side-effect of HRT drugs. This story comes from ScienceAdvisor.

Pixar had a transgender character in its new series Win Or Lose, but Disney Plus erased all references to the character’s gender identity. The character, voiced by transgender actor Chanel Stewart, is still in the show. NBC News has this story.

Laverne Cox refuses to participate in a “debate” about the validity of transgender people’s experiences. She explains it in a video taken from a speech she gave at a Planned Parenthood event in Kansas City, Missouri. The Advocate has this story.

We mentioned recently that Squid Games cast a cisgender performer in the role of a transgender character. It turns out that creator/director Hwang Dong-hyuk tried to cast a transgender actor, but claims that, “there are close to no actors that are openly trans” in South Korea. It seems that being LGBTQ is still not accepted in South Korea, and actors who are LGBTQ are mostly still in the closet. This story comes from .

Dylan Mulvaney is starting a book club. Her book club is dedicated to books that are banned for LGBTQ+ themes, especially books with trans themes. PinkNews has this story.

Bobbie Simpson was sworn in as a member of the Shasta County Gateway Unified School District. She is the first transgender person elected to a school board in California. She is profiled in The Advocate.

Sarah McBride said a farewell speech to her colleagues in the Delaware state Senate, as she heads to the U.S. House of Representatives. You can find some quotes from that speech at The Advocate.

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