TNN: Trans News Now – March 24, 2025

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Federal Judge Ana Reyes of the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., has issued a preliminary injunction against President Trump’s ban on transgender people in the military. She said that the ban was “soaked in animus and dripping in pretext, and was not based on a specific need of the military. Judge Reyes wrote in her decision, “Indeed, the cruel irony is that thousands of transgender service members have sacrificed — some risking their lives — to ensure for others the very equal protection rights that the Military Ban seeks to deny them.” NPR has this story.

In response, the Department of Defence revised its guidelines, defining in more detail what it means to “exhibit symptoms consistent with gender dysphoria.” They then got a judge in that same district to agree to hear an emergency hearing on the revised memo. This story comes from The Advocate.

An appeals court of the state of Ohio has struck down that state’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors. Ohio’s state constitution includes a “right to choose to receive health care that follows widely accepted guidelines and treatment protocols of the professional medical community in the United States.” The judges felt that the ban violated this right. Erin Reed has this story.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced it will end all gender-affirming medical care for veterans. This story comes from Military Times.

We reported last week that the Department of Agriculture was threatening to stop its funding to the University of Maine unless they agreed to outlaw transgender athletes in women’s sports. They have no transgender athletes, but the Trump administration wants a formal policy on the matter. Well, this week the University of Maine System has agreed to a formal policy whereby they will no longer allow transgender athletes. The Department of Agriculture restored funding to the University of Maine. The New York Post has this story.

The Trump administration has suspended $175 million to the University of Pennsylvania, in retaliation for Lia Thomas. The transgender swimmer, who quite legally participated on the women’s swim team, has not been a student at the University of Pennsylvania for almost three years. This story comes from the Associated Press.

The Kentucky legislature passed a bill which legalizes conversion therapy. Psychologists and psychiatrists say that conversion therapy does not work and can have nasty results, but it will soon be legal in Kentucky. There are enough votes to overturn an expected veto from Governor Andy Beshear, This story comes from The Advocate.

The Texas Newsroom has discovered that the state of Texas collected information on everyone who wanted to change the gender marker on their state ID or driver’s license. However, they could not find out what the state used that information for.

A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found that an Idaho law which punishes transgender students for using a restroom that does not match their “biological gender” is legal. The ruling says that transgender people in the restroom violate the privacy of cisgender people, despite the Dobbs decision striking down the idea that the U.S. constitution has a right to privacy. Erin Reed has this story.

Kirsty Coventry, the new president of the International Olympic Committee, said that the IOC would look into “the transgender issue,” after President Trump threatened to stop the visa of any transgender athlete who was going to appear in the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. This story comes from The Hill.

Minnesota state Senator Justin Eichorn has sponsored anti-transgender legislation, and recently filed a bill to classify “Trump Derangement Syndrome” as a mental health condition. He was arrested this week for soliciting a minor for prostitution. It turns out that his correspondent was actually a police officer. Erin In The Morning has this story.

Two doctors from Harvard Medical School have filed a suit against the Trump administration, over their removal of research articles which contain banned words. The removed articles contained the words “trans[gender]” and “LGBTQ.” The Advocate has this story.

82 members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed on to a letter which expressed their opposition to the Trump administration denying passports with a non-binary gender marker. This story comes from Them.

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open showed that gender-affirming hormone therapy improved the mental health of transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse people, and did so over an extended time.

On The White Lotus, Sam Rockwell showed up, playing an old friend of Rick. The formerly wild friend, now sober, tells his story. He had a string of quick affairs with girls in Thailand, and allowed one to top him. This led him to think that he might be a transgender Thai woman, wanting her role in sex. Eventually, he left that scene, and got into Buddhism. Out.com says that TERFs are using that monologue to push the idea of “autogynophilia,” a psychological theory about what makes us transgender. The theory has never found much acceptance in psychology, but it does find acceptance among opponents of transgender people.

Denmark has joined the growing list of nations which have issued travel warnings about the United States. Transgender people are especially warned, and a specific warning is given to those who have a passport with a gender marker of “X”. France 24 has this story from AFP.

World Pride is being held in Washington, D.C., starting in May. Organizers are trying to assure that LGBTQ people can safely travel to the event and back to their home countries, but a slew of incidents in which even people with resident alien status have been detained or deported have raised suspicions about safety of visitors to the U.S. In fact, some are calling for a boycott of the events in Washington, according to The Advocate.

Vivian Jenna Wilson, the transgender daughter of Elon Musk, gave a rather long interview to Teen Vogue. She says that she never had a strong relationship with her father. She says that she is not the reason why he has turned so far to the right.

President Trump has hinted that the GOP will use their attack on transgender rights as a political talking point in the 2026 midterms. This story comes from Them.

Representative Sarah McBride has urged Democrats to be willing to accept people who do not agree with the party’s position on transgender issues. NOTUS has this story.

A father explaiend to CNN that he voted for Donald Trump, because he agreed with President Trump on most issues, but just hoped that he was not serious about his anti-transgender talk. Little did he suspect that voting for President Trump would make it difficult for his transgender son to keep getting his gender-affirming medicine. CNN has this story.

Larry Jones of Milwaukee planned to testify in favour of a bill that would ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, but after listening to opponents of the ban, he used his oppportunity to speak to apologize to transgender youths. His story appears in LGBTQ Nation.

Wired reports on researchers who are rushing to save data on transgender youths, before the Trump administration erases it.

The 19th* takes a look at what is the safest way for a transgender person to travel.

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