TNN: Trans News Now – May 25, 2026

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A judge in Kansas has granted a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. In the decision, the judge dismissed the so-called “experts” who testified for the state. Erin Reed has this story at Erin In The Morning.

The Colorado Supreme Court ordered Children’s Hospital Colorado to resume gender-affirming care for minors. The justices held that discontinuing gender-affirming care for those who had already begun treatment constitutes discrimination. This story comes from Them.

ERryka Caldwell, a 41-year-old transgender woman, was stabbed to death in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. Her boyfriend has been arrested. This story comes from Them.

In Maine, a review of the petitions to put a trangender sports ban before the public found that there were not enough valid signatures on the petitions. >News Center Maine has this story.

The city of Seattle is experiencing a strain on housing, food, and mental health resources, due to an influx of LGBTQ, especially transgender, people moving into the state of Washington from conservative states. This story comes from LGBTQ Nation.

A three-judge panel of the appeals court in Boston has rejected the request to block a children’s hospital in Rhode Island from having to share medical records of transgender children with a grand jury in Texas. LGBTQ Nation has this story.

A court in Idaho has dismissed a case challenging the state’s transgender bathroom law, after the plaintiff committed suicide. The court offered “sincerest sympathies” to the family of the deceased. This story comes from Them.

The Republicans of the U.S House of Representatives have passed HR 2616, a bill which would require schools to inform parents when their children try to change gender identities, names, or pronouns at school. The Advocate reports that eight Democrats joined the Republicans in voting for the bill.

Transgender athlete AB Hernandez won three track and field contests, but each time, she was forced to share a first-place platform with the cisgender girl who finished behind her. This story comes from Them.

Elliot Page serves as narrator and executive producer of a new documentary, Second Nature. The movie shows examples of surprising gender identities and sexual orientations in nature. The Advocate has this story.

The Equalities and Human Rights Commission of the United Kingdom has issued a guidance that extends the Supreme Court’s decision last year that transgender women are not women to also cover restrooms, changing rooms, and other “single-sex spaces.” This story comes from BBC News.

A law firm in Peru is broadcasting ads for its legal name change services, and the ads are going viral, according to Them.

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