TNN: Trans News Now – Nov 10, 2025

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The Supreme Court lifted an order from a district court in Massachusetts, which had forced the State Department to issue passports in the applicant’s preferred gender or in a non-binary X, if requested. Without hearing oral arguments, the Supreme Court overturned the stay on enforcing the policy, which stems from President Trump’s executive order recognizing only two sexes, as assigned at birth. The Associated Press has this story.

Election Day was last Tuesday. In Virginia, Republican candidate for governor Winsome Earle-Sears ran some ads with very anti-transgender messages, the kind that President Trump thinks got him elected last year. She came in a distant second to Abigail Spanberger, who ran on pocketbook issues. This story comes from the Virginia Mercury.

Downingtown, Pennsylvania, is a small town west of Philadelphia. The town, with roughly 9000 people, elected transgender woman Erica Deuso as the next mayor. She is the first out transgender person elected in the state of Pennsylvania. WHYY pubic radio has this story.

Erin Reed of Erin In The Morning writes that the midterm elections prove that democrats do not have to abandon or even diminish their support for transgender people in order to win elections. The Los Angeles Blade, The Advocate, and Them concur.

A new poll by AtlasIntel finds that voters in general prefer the Democrats over the Republicans on the matter of transgender rights. Erin Reed of Erin In The Morning has this story.

President Trump is being sued, twice, over a new policy where people who work for LGBTQ non-profits are not offered the same student loan forgiveness that is offered to those who work for other non-profit organizations. This story comes from The Advocate.

A new policy from the Department of Defense says that military personnel facing separation must conform to the uniform and grooming standards for their sex. In other words, transgender women must cut their hair and wear a guy’s uniform to attend the hearings on whether they can remain in the military. The Advocate has this story.

A federal appeals court has revived a part of a Texas law banning drag performances where minors might be present, which had been struck down by a federal judge. This story comes from Them.

Researchers found that estrogen therapy does not increase the probability of heart attacks or strokes in transgender women, and might even be better for the heart. Powers Health has this story.

Last week, we announced that Washington State University’s School of Medicine had agreed to give Continuing Medical Education credits to doctors who took a course offered by the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, a group which the SPLC has designated a hate group. SEGM is known to oppose the research which the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Paediatrics, the American Psychological Association, and other medical groups have used to justify endorsing gender-affirming care. This week, Washington State University suspended giving CME credit for taking that course.. This story comes from Erin In The Morning.

Cole Escola is writing the script for a new movie which may star Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone, and Miss Piggy. Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone are signed on as executive producers. Out.com has this story.

In Texas, a man had his jaw broken when he got into a fight defending a transgender woman. Some transgender people set up a GoFundMe campaign to pay for the medical bill of the man who rushed to the defense of a transgender women, and the campaign reached its funding goal. This story comes from Them.

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