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TNN: Trans News Now – July 14, 2025

ceciliab | Jul 14, 2025

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North Carolina Governor Josh Stein vetoed three bills, including one which would have prohibited state funding for gender-affirming care, limited birth certificates to only listing “male” or “female,” and more. Governor Stein said that these “mean-spirited bills would marginalize vulnerable people.” The Advocate has this story.

Federal Judge Indira Talwani has ordered a 14-day delay in going ahead with a ban on federal funding of Planned Parenthood. The defunding of Planned Parenthood was a part of the One Big Beautiful Bill. This story comes from Them.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has resumed participating in a limited number of discrimination cases involving transgender or non-binary people. PinkNews has this story.

We reported last week that the FBI was investigating clinics which offered gender-affirming medical care to minors. This week, the Department of Justice announced that it has sent 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics who it says are “involved in performing transgender medical procedures on children.” Details, including when the subpoenas were sent and who received them, were not made public. This story comes from The Hill.

The Federal Trade Commission held a conference at which it unveiled “unfair or deceptive trade practices in ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors.” The event lasted six hours. LGBTQ advocates called the event “a government-sponsored disinformation campaign,” according to The Advocate.

President Trump’s Department of Education has filed suit against the California Department of Education, saying that California’s policy which allows transgender athletes to compete in the gender with with they identify violates their interpretation of Title IX. Politico has this story.

Dream Johnson, a Black transgender woman, was shot to death in Washington, D.C. Police are seeking the public’s help in expanding evidence in this case. This story comes from Fox 5 DC.

In Puerto Rico a bill has passed which would ban gender-affirming care for any patient under 25 years of age. Parents of transgender children asked Governor Jennifer Gonzalez to veto the bill, but instead, she sent it back to the legislature for changes. GLAAD has this story.

Republicans in the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives tried to force a vote on a bill that would ban transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s sports. However, the Democrats on the Education Committee blocked the bill. This story comes from the Pennsylvania Capital Star.

Harvard has shut down the websites of its BGLTQ Student Life center and its women’s center, in keeping with President Trump’s call to end efforts to promote diversity, equality, and inclusion. The Advocate has this story.

Two weeks after receiving a $640,000 grant to study women and LGBTQ+ people in the church, Baylor University returned the money, saying it was “inconsistent” with their core values. This story comes from The Advocate.

The American Civil Liberties Union advise all transgender people who need to get a new passport or renew an existing passport to do so as soon as possible. They fear that an appeal of the judge’s order could close the window for those wishing to get the proper gender marker on their passports, according to a story in Them.

Lilly Wachowski has agreed to become an executive producer of the new science fiction thriller DOLLS, which will mark the debut of Geena Rocero as director. You can find the plot and more at Them.

An Iranian lawyer says that a hundred transgender prisoners died as a result of the bombing of Evin Prison. The prison was bombed last month, in the attempt to destroy Iran’s enriched uranium. Democracy Now! has this story.

India’s first center for transgender healthcare, the Mitry Clinic, has reopened as the Sabrang Clinic. The Them.

While LGBTQ rights in the United States are slipping considerably, and transgender rights especially so, the United Nations Human Rights Council has renewed the mandate of its expert on LGBTQ+ rights, Graeme Reid of South Africa. The Advocate has this story.

A gay grandfather with Stage IV cancer was arrested and fined $16,000 for protesting in favour of the rights of transgender youths. He tells The Advocate that he would do it again.