TNN: Trans News Now – Feb 16, 2026

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The state of California has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education, claiming that their policy forcing schools to out transgender students to their parents is unconstitutional. The state has also obtained a restraining order, keeping the Department of Education from enforcing that policy, at least for the moment. The Advocate has this story.

California joined Colorado, Illinois, and Minnesota in suing the Trump administration over cuts in funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to states. The funds were approved by Congress, but the Department of Health and Human Services say that they are “inconsistent with agency priorities.” According to the lawsuit, the cuts in funding come from political animus, not policy. This story comes from LGBTQ Nation.

Erin Reed reports at Erin In The Morning that the Trump administration is planning to attack LGBTQ+ health centers. Yes, of course, gender-affirming care is at the bottom of this, and especially so, pediatric gender-affirming care.

Rade Children’s Health in San Diego bowed to state pressure. They will keep their pediatric gender clinic open, at least through March 10. LGBTQ Nation has this story.

The state of Indiana has quietly introduced a new policy whereby the DMV will no longer update gender markers on driver’s licenses or state ID cards. This story comes from The Advocate.

The Trump administration tried to remove the rainbow Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument this week. This is in keeping with the Trump administration’s policy against Pride flags or other “political” banners on grounds managed by the federal government. The Advocate reports that the LGBTQ community has raised the Pride flag again, but this seems to set up a continuing stand-off.

An 18-year-old transgender woman named Jesse Van Rootselaar is responsible for killing nine people in the town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. Canada is not known for many mass killings, and transgender people are rarely the shooters in mass killings, but this particular incident is a mass shooting in Canada with a transgender shooter. The Washington Blade has this story.

When the British government banned puberty blockers and effectively banned gender-affirming care for minors, advocates for LGBTQ+ health care predicted that there would be a sharp rise in suicides and suicide attempts among transgender people. The government reported no such increase, and many took that as a sign that the medical studies were wrong, that there wasn’t a connection between gender-affirming care and a reduction in suicides and suicide attempts. It turns out that there was an increase in suicides, but the government just didn’t report it. The Good Law Project uncovered the truth, as Erin Reed reports at Erin In The Morning.

New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte has vetoed the anti-transgender bathroom bill which was passed by the state’s legislature. It is noteworthy that Governor Ayotte is a Republican, but she vetoed an anti-transgender bill passed by the Republicans in the state legislature. This story comes from Them.

Democrats in the U.S. Congress have reintroduced the Transgender Bill of Rights. The bill has little chance of passing with the current Congress, and even if it did, President Trump would veto it. However, the reintroduction of the bill does show “a moral commitment” to transgender people. LGBTQ Nation has this story.

The High Court in the U.K. has ruled that transgender women can use any women’s restroom except the ones at work. So, if your workplace has an independently-owned restaurant, you can use the restaurant’s woman’s room, but not the one at work. This story comes from Them.

The U.K. Department for Education has issued a guidance stating that schools in England must tell parents in the “vast majority” of cases if their child is “transitioning” at school. PinkNews has this story.

New data reveals that, in the ten years prior to its closing, the Tavistock and Portman Centre received a mere eight cocmplaints. That is not even one complaint per year. This story cocmes from PinkNews.

A transgender couple in Argentina were approved for a church wedding, until the archdiocese discovered that both the groom and the bride are transgender. This story comes from Them.

A new study from Australia finds that gender-affirming care, publicly funded, would be better for the economy than the current habit of denying funding for transgender health care. PinkNews has this story.

Magic: The Gathering raised $450,000 for Transgender Lifeline, and the fundraiser only lasted two days. Erin In The Morning has this story.

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