TNN: Trans News Now – May 26, 2025

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The House of Representatives passed its “one big, beautiful bill,” as President Trump calls it. The bill sets forth the Republicans’ priorities regarding taxes and spending. Just before passing it, an amendment expanded its ban on Medicaid paying for gender-affirming care for minors so that no one covered by Medicaid would get gender-affirming medical care. The bill now goes to the Senate. The Independent has this story.

The United States Army will change the gender markers on the records of transgender people in the military so that they reflect the person’s gender assigned at birth. Mind you, they are doing this as they moving to dismiss all transgender people from the military. This story comes from Reuters.

The Supreme Court of the United States has restored the vote of Maine state Representative Laurel Libby, who was censured for outing a transgender student on social media. Mind you, they did not do the same for Zoey Zephyr, who was censured by Montana’s state legislature last year, when she accused them of having “blood on your hands” because of the shameful way that they discriminate against transgender minors. CBS News has this story.

The Alliance Defending Freedom is suing the state of Minnesota because transgender females are allowed to play softball in the state. This story comes from Erin Reed.

Judge Shane A. Vannatta has issued a temporary injunction banning the enforcement of Montana’s new law prohibiting transgender and intersex females from using the ladies’ room or a changing room for females. The judge wrote, “[t]he State does not provide evidence of female offenses against [cis] women or evidence of offenses being committed in covered entities to support the necessity of immediate implementation of the Act.” Erin Reed has this story.

A new poll commissioned by GLAAD shows that almost twice as many people would be motivated against purchasing a product in Pride packaging than would be motivated to buy it. The story in LGBTQ Nation buries the fact that most respondents said that Pride packaging would not factor into their decision to purchase a product.

A story in The Advocate states that Target has seen a 3.8% decrease in same-store sales in the first quarter of 2025, compared to the first quarter of 2024. That is interesting, but it would be nice if they had told us how other stores are doing in terms of same-quarter-last-year earnings, before they concluded that this shows that Target should not have dropped its DEI.

In light of Former President Joe Biden’s diagnosis of aggressive prostate cancer, The Advocate ran a story on what LGBTQ+ people need to know about prostate cancer. Trans women on estrogen tend to have very low PSA levels, which means that the usual scale for interpreting prostate cancer risk will not work for trans women. Also of note is that several surgeons do not tell transgender women that they still have a prostate, and should get checked.

Have you ever heard of “transgender broken arm syndrome?” PinkNews has a story about it.

Transgender attorney Alejandra Caraballo writes in Erin In The Morning about how easy it is for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to get medical records for Americans, including people who do not live in Texas.

Naomi Watts and her daughter Kai co-hosted a fundraiser for trans rights organizations. This story comes from Them.

In the original Lilo & Stitch, the character of Pleakley was often in disguise, sometimes wearing dresses and wigs. That is not the case in the new live-action film, leading Out.com to say in its review that the character is “more of a drag than a queen” in this version.

President Trump made himself the chair of the Kennedy Center, and told everyone that he would clean up the acts coming into the venue. He said that there would be “no more drag” at the Kennedy Center. The new season was announced, and it features three plays with characters who do drag: Chicago, Moulin Rouge, and Mrs. Doubtfire. This story comes from Them.

In Edinburgh, a group of transgender women protested by going topless outside of the Scottish Parliament building. This was a protest of the Supreme Court’s decision that the legal definition of “woman” excludes transgender women. LGBTQ Nation has this story.

Leaked memos this week showed that members of the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee (i.e., the party’s ruling body) were scheduled to vote on limiting its women’s conference to “biological women,” to keep with the legal definition of “woman” from the U.K. Supreme Court. Instead, they simply postponed the conference. PinkNews has this story.

Word came out this week that U.K. Health Secretary Wes Streeting is considering expanding the ban on puberty blockers to include private prescribers. Currently, the ban applies only to those doctors who are a part of the NHS. This story comes form Them.

Paris has unveiled a new memorial to LGBTQ+ victims of the Nazis. The Advocate has this story.

Apple was fined ten million rubles for “LGBTQ propaganda” in its content. That fine comes to roughly $130,000 in American money. This story comes from The Advocate.

Parents in Pensacola, Florida, are calling for their transgender child’s chosen name to be called out at his graduation from high school. The school district seems to be afraid of breaking the state law. LGBTQ Nation has this story.

Climbers in Yosemite have placed the transgender pride flag on the top of El Capitan, at least temporarily. This story comes from NBC News.

The Advocate has a series of pictures from this year’s Trans Pride D.C.

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