TNN: Trans News Now – Dec 8, 2025

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A judge struck down a Georgia law, which banned gender-affirming medical care for inmates in state prisons. According to the judge “the state must provide minimally adequate treatment” for gender dysphoria in prisoners diagnosed with that condition. The Advocate has this story.

The Department of Justice has issued orders to prison inspectors, telling them that they no longer need to make plans for keeping transgender, intersex, or gender non-conforming prisoners safe from rape. This story comes from NPR.

A new bill introduced in the Missouri state legislature would ban “social transition” of genders in schools, even if the parents approve of it. Erin Reed has this story in Erin In The Morning.

A new report shows that hate crimes against LGBTQ people were significantly higher in Los Angeles County last year. Part of that is that they were so low in previous years. The Advocate has this story.

The United States Tennis Association has banned transgender women from women’s competitions. This story comes from LGBTQ Nation.

The Fourth district of the Maryland House of Delegates is a rural district which is coming to serve as an exurb of Washington, D.C. It has a history of electing Republicans, but Alleria Stanley aims to change that. She is an out transgender woman who served 20 years in the Army. She is a widow with five children. She does not hide her transgender identity, but she doesn’t lead with it, either, she tells The Advocate in an interview.

The new British political party known as Your Party have overwhelmingly voted to include transgender rights in their founding documents. This story comes from PinkNews.

The Women’s Institute of the United Kingdom has announced, with “utmost regret and sadness,” that it can no longer accept transgender women as members. They had accepted transgender women as members, but they have received legal advice insisting that they should not continue to accept transgender women. BBC News has this story.

Girl Guiding, the U.K. equivalent of Girl Scouts, banned transgender girls from membership this week. Both Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute reacted to the legal decision defining a woman. This story comes from Erin Reed of Erin In The Morning.

Doctors in New Zealand are going to court to fight the ban on puberty blockers recently passed by the legislature. This story comes from Erin In The Morning.

The National Roads and Motorists’ Association, an Australian company, offers a discount for non-binary drivers. On their insurance application, one can choose “male,” “female,” or “non-binary” gender. If one chooses “non-binary,” one gets a lower rate, according to Them.

The Advocate reports that LGBTQ people are continuing to make plans in case they want to leave the country if the U.S. under President Trump gets too authoritarian. A growing number are already turning those plans into action.

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