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TNN: Trans News Now – May 12, 2025

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture agreed to restore nutrition funding to Maine schools. President Trump had ordered the department to not give food to Maine schools, in retaliation for them not going along with his ban on transgender athletes. It appears that the dispute has now been settled. The Advocate has this story.

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration may start removing transgender people from the U.S. military. Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth has agreed to give transgender troops until June 6 to resign, or they will be dishonorably discharged. This story comes from Stars And Stripes.

The Associated Press has a long story about how the Trump administration opposes the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s efforts to protect transgender people.

Native leaders are concerned for transgender and gender-diverse Indigenous people as President Trump tries to expand his executive order recognizing only two genders. Kate Sosin has this story for The 19th*.

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed into law a ban on transgender athletes in the state. There are no transgender athletes to ban, and the state’s athletic body already has a policy against transgender athletes, but the lawmakers felt that they had to do something, if only to give themselves something to tell the voters that they did. The Advocate has this story.

West Virginia has expanded its ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors. Until now, they had an exemption which allowed those who are suicidal to get gender-affirming care, though not surgery. That exemption has been eliminated. This story comes from The Advocate.

CBS News Los Angeles reports on an incident in which a motorist followed a transgender woman into a gas station and slashed her tires.

Democratic senators have written a letter stating their disagreement with Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s proposal to end federal funding for a LGBTQ+ suicide prevention phone line. LGBTQ Nation has this story.

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed a bill which would ban updates to birth certificates and two DEI bans, all of which would affect transgender people. She told the state legislature to “focus on real issues that matter.” This story comes from Erin Reed.

Several leading medical organizations and doctors have expressed their disappointment with the Trump administration’s report on gender-affirming medical care for minors. The report is decried as “pseudo-science” and is said to rely on debunked information. It does not reflect recent studies, and it mischaracterizes the motives of medical organizations which were not asked for information. Erin In The Morning has this story.

A new study finds that transgender women who were exposed to conversion therapy were almost three times as likely to be diagnosed as having high blood pressure than the general population. This story comes from LGBTQ Nation.

If you ever wanted to role-play as a transgender lesbian vampire, the new game Crimson Tide will give you that option. PinkNews has this story.

We reported recently that WorldPride events scheduled for the Kennedy Center would be cancelled. In fact, the events have been relocated to the WorldPride Welcome Center in Washington, D.C. Moreover, organizers say that it was their decision to relocate the events; the Kennedy Center did not cancel the events. This story comes from The Advocate.

Representative Jasmine Crocket gave us a new game, “Trump or Trans.” The point of the game was, who is really responsible for a problem, President Trump, or transgender people. The point is that, time after time, the problem is caused by President Trump, not a transgender person. The Advocate has this story.

Also in the news, Robert Cardinal Prevost of Chicago was chosen as the new Pope, head of the Catholic Church. Like his predecessor, Pope Francis, he is a progressive on climate change, left-of-center on migrant’s rights and worker’s rights, and opposed to abortion to the point that he does not talk about it. He seems to have a complex view on LGBTQ rights, though he often comes out as siding with the conservatives, according to The 19th*.