TNN: Trans News Now – Jan 12, 2026

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A bill pending in the Vermont state legislature would establish the Affirming Health Care Trust Fund, to pay for gender-affirming care for transgender youths. This is a response to President Trump’s attempts to deny federal funding for gender-affirming health care for minors. Erin Reed has this story at Erin In The Morning..

A federal judge rejected the Department of Justice’s subpoena for records of transgender children receiving gender-affirming are from Children’s Hospital of Colorado. This makes at least three cases in which a judge has ruled against the subpoenas on children’s health records. Reuters has this story.

A religious group has asked the Supreme Court to make an emergency ruling on the California law which forbids teachers from informing parents when their child changes gender presentation at school. This story comes from Politico.

This Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear the case of whether states should be allowed to ban transgender athletes from school sports teams. The Human Rights Campaign has a primer on the case.

Children’s Hospital of Colorado and Denver Health have both announced that they will stop providing gender-affirming medical care for patients under 18 years of age. That leaves families wondering where they can get gender-affirming care for their children. This story comes from the Colorado Sun.

The Utah state legislature commissioned a study on gender-affirming care for minors, hoping that the study would defend their ban on the practice. Instead, the study announced that gender-affirming care produced better results than any other treatment of gender dysphoria. Nonetheless, the Deseret News reports that the Utah state legislature is poised to pass a permanent ban on gender-affirming care for minors in the state.

A transgender former employee has filed a suit against the Chicago Cubs, alleging that they allowed her fellow employees to taunt her with epithets based on her gender identity and allegations about her sexuality. Windy City Times has this story.

A new poll estimates that 400,000 transgender people have moved states because of the laws in the state where they were living. The survey fails to mention how many family members moved with them when they changed states. Erin Reed has this story at Erin In The Morning.

You may have read that Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as Mayor of New York at an abandoned subway station. The narrator for the ceremony was Bernie Wagenblast, a transgender woman who has been the voice of the New York subway system for many years. LGBTQ Nation has this story.

Another study shows that puberty blockers provide “meaningful reductions” in the rates of depression and anxiety in patients with gender dysphoria is set to be published in the February issue of the Journal of Paediatrics. You can read about it at PinkNews.

It turns out that only four people have filed formal complaints about trans women using the ladies’ lavatory in Britain since 2022. PinkNews has this story.

Friends were planning a memorial service for Anna Murphy, a transgender advocate from Calgary. It turns out that she is alive, but in the hospital. This story comes from Livewire Calgary.

Ten people in France were found guilty of cyberbullying Brigitte Macron by accusing the first lady of France of being transgender. President Macron and his wife have also filed a suit against Candace Owens, assuming damages from her repeated claims that Mrs. Macron is “a man.” The Advocate has this story.

Experts on genocide expressed the opinion that the United States is in the early stages of a genocide against transgender people. This story comes from the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security.

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