TNN: Trans News Now – June 23, 2025

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The Supreme Court decided that Tennessee, and by extension, 26 other states, are not violating the Constitution when they passed bans on gender-affirming medical care for minors. NPR has this story.

The Advocate has five takeaways from the decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti, the decision in favour of state bans on gender-affirming medical care for minors.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a dissenting opinion. She called the majority’s decision “state-sanctioned discrimination.” She feels that the conservatives should have held the law to a much higher standard of scrutiny. The Advocate has this story.

In a far more positive legal development, U.S. District Judge Julie Kobick extended a preliminary injunction in favour of six transgender and nonbinary people who are suing the State Department to get passports which do not list their sex assigned at birth as their current sex. The injunction now includes any transgender or non-binary individual. Since this decision is likely to be appealed, it might be good to act quickly. This story comes from Them.

U.S. District Judge William Young ruled that President Trump’s cuts to grants from the National Institutes of Health show anti-LGBTQ+ bias and racial discrimination. He has ordered the funding restored. The Advocate has this story.

The Advocate has a look at members of the Veteran’s Administration healthcare team who are still providing gender-affirming medical care to veterans.

Andrea Lucas admitted at her confirmation hearing for re-nomination to be head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that court rulings do protect transgender workers from being discriminated against at their workplaces, but said that her agency will not defend them because her agency is not independent and follows the orders of President Trump. This story comes from the Associated Press.

Although both the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.K. government have supported a ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors, a new study from the University of London finds that bans on puberty blockers are causing “serious adverse effects.” They find the bans on puberty blockers are “Significantly, extensively, and relentlessly harming transgender children and young people.” https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/19/puberty-blockers-ban-trans-youth/”>PinkNews has this story.

The cast of season 4 of The Traitors has been announced, and there are no transgender contestants. There could be a surprise transgender guest, but the lack of a transgender contestant is upsetting many people. Pepperment talked with Out.com about the cast.

Nick Frost, who is in the cast of the new Harry Potter series, is also in a transgender comedy from ITV called Transaction. It is about a transgender supermarket worker who causes havoc. This story comes from PinkNews.

Jinkx Monsoon will be playing Mary Todd Lincoln in Oh, Mary! for eight weeks, starting August 4. Out.com has this story.

Vivian Wilson has made her drag debut, and it turns out that it was at a fundraiser for immigrant defense. This story comes from Them.

The British House of Commons has issued an official apology to two barristers after they encountered a transgender woman in the restroom. The trans woman in question is a leading employment and discrimination barrister, so the two women who complained should have been quite familiar with her. This story comes from PinkNews.

In Britain, a 67-year-old transgender woman, who had previously swam against women, was told that she would now have to compete in the male division, if she was to compete at all. She did compete in the male division, but as a protest, she swam topless. Bored Panda has this story.

Slovakia is considering amendments to its constitution which would deny the legal recognition of transgender women. PinkNews reports that the European Commissioner for Human Rights has urged them to not adopt this amendment, for human rights reasons.

Congresswoman Sarah McBride has noticed that support for transgender people as decreased, and she has an idea why that is happening. The Advocate has this story.

Astrobrites has an interview with 2-spirit person with a degree in astronomy and physics, and a job with the HETDEX collaboration at the McDonald Observatory.

Vice President J.D. Vance joined Bluesky, the social media site that left-leaning people fled to after leaving X. He spread his usual far-right sorts of material, and quickly became the most blocked user on Bluesky. Among the material that he posted was Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion in US v. Skrmetti. He is now blocked by more people than follow him–by a factor of 11 blockers for every follower of his account. This story comes from The Advocate.

In the light of the Supreme Court’s decision on US v. Skrmetti, the Electronic Frontier Foundation published some Strategies For Resisting Tech-Enabled Violence Facing Transgender People.

A study by GLAAD shows that anti-LGBTQ+ content has been on the rise on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, since they stopped monitoring and rolled back protection. The Advocate has this story.

Wired tells us of one historian thinks she has seen the future of transgender health care.

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