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TNN: Trans News Now – Feb 23, 2026

ceciliab | Feb 23, 2026

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Over 100 members of Congress signed a letter stating their opposition to the new rules proposed by the Trump administration which would greatly reduce access to gender-affirming care. The House Equality Caucus has this story.

A public protest of the new rules outside the Department of Health and Human Services attracted over 50 protestors. 25 people were arrested during that protest. This story comes from Them.

This week, a transgender parent in Rhode Island whose family would not accept their gender identity shot and killed two family members and wounded three other people. The 56-year-old was veteran of the armed forces and a member of a far-right fringe group. The incident ended with the shooter’s suicide. LGBTQ Nation has this story. Reaction to the incident can be found in the TWITs.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against a doctor, claiming that the doctor provided gender-affirming care to 19 transgender minors after a law banning such care was passed. The suit further claims that the doctor filed falsified claims for payment from Texas Medicaid, which does not cover gender-affirming care for minors. This story comes from KERA, NPR for North Texas.

The Bureau of Prisons announced this week that it will stop providing gender-affirming care to almost all inmates. The Marshall Project has this story.

Kansas Governor Laura Kelly vetoed a bathroom bill, which opponents say is so severe that it will prevent people from visiting a relative of the opposite sex. The legislation would also undo any changes to driver’s licenses or state-issued ID cards. Republicans in the state legislature voted to overturn the veto. The bill will become law despite the Governor’s veto, according to Them.

The bathroom bill in Kansas covers restrooms in private businesses. The bathroom bill advancing in the Idaho state legislature also covers restrooms in private businesses. Erin Reed of Erin In the Morning points out that this goes against a long-standing Republican practice of saying that private businesses should be allowed to create their own policies for their restrooms, without pressure from the law. It is yet another principle of government restraint lost in the culture war.

The Department of Education is now investigating three Michigan school districts which allegedly failed to inform parents that they were about to teach their children that LGBTQ people exist. Apparently, it is now mandatory that parents be informed and allowed in advance to take their children out of lessons which mention LGBTQ people. This story comes from LGBTQ Nation.

Two lawsuits were filed this week, challenging the authority of the National Park Service and the Department of the Interior to remove the Pride flag from the Stonewall Memorial Site. The suits claim that the directive actually provides that “flags and banners” which promote the historical significance of a site may be flown, if there is space for them. Furthermore, the suits claim that the National Park Service allows that Confederate flag to be flown at some of the sites that it maintains. LGBTQ Nation has this story.

NYU Langone has announced that it would discontinue offering gender-affirming care to minors. They join a long list of hospitals which have discontinued the practice of offering gender-affirming care for minors. This story comes from Them.

UMass Memorial Health in Worcester, Massachusetts, has cancelled vaginoplasty surgery on adult transgender women. They offered no explanation, and no follow-up plan. LGBTQ Nation hasa this story.

Ted Levine, the actor who played Buffalo Bill in Silence Of The Lambs admits that depicting the villain as transgender was “f***ing wrong.” He seems to say that it wasn’t as wrong when the film came out, even though it was. This story comes from Out.com.

A recent resolution passed by the European Parliament calls for “the full recognition of trans women as women.” Erin Reed of Erin In The Morning reports that the resolution passed overwhelmingly.

The Conversation explores why transgender people are thought to be violent when a transgender individual commits an act of violence, but cisgender men are not examined collectively even though cisgender men are responsible for so many acts of violence.

Representative Sarah McBride spoke at the Munich Security Conference this week. She was introduced by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who called her a “gender rights champion.” She spoke at a town hall entitled, “Girls Just Want To Have Fundamental Rights: Fighting The Global Pushback.” The Advocate has this story.