TNN: Trans News Now – Sept 1, 2025

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Virginia’s Fairfax County School Board is suing the Trump administration, saying that they are illegally withholding money appropriated by Congress in order to make the district adopt the administration’s anti-transgender policies. FFX Now has this story.

The state of South Carolina has asked the Supreme Court to take up its school bathroom law on the emergency docket. The district is caught between an appeals court decision which insists that a transgender student has a right to use the restroom which matches his or her gender identity, and the spirit of the court’s decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti. This story comes from SCOTUSblog.

After a decade of trying, the Texas House of Representatives has passed a bathroom bill which forces transgender people to use the restroom of their “biological sex.” The bill, which will find a transgender person $25,000 per violation, now goes to Governor Gregg Abbott for his signature. The Texas Tribune has this story.

The Department of Education under President Trump has demanded that 40 states, 5 territories, and the District of Columbia change the books that they use for sex education. The books in question mention transgender people. This story comes from Erin Reed.

Robin Westman broke into Anunciation Catholic Church during a school Mass and started shooting. Two students have died, while seventeen children and two adults were injured. The shooter was also killed. Almost immediately, some on the far right quickly blamed the incident on “another transgender shooter,” citing other cases including ones in which later evidence showed that the shooter was not transgender at all. Newsweek has this story. We also cover it in the TWITs.

The medical board of the state of Alaska is making a move to try to ban gender-affirming care for minors. If they do this, it will be the first time a medical review group, rather than ones lawyers, actually banned gender-affirming care for minors. This story comes from Erin In The Morning.

Alice Correia Barbosa, a Brazilian transgender woman, was violently detained at a traffic stop in Washington, D.C., and then taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This story comes from Them.

Now that the Department of Health and Human Services no longer supports gender-affirming care for minors, what do they recommend for minors who have gender dysphoria? The answer is, they recommend “Gender Exploratory Therapy.” According to The Advocate it bears a striking resemblance to conversion therapy. Gender Exploratory Therapy “discourages affirmation and instead promotes an exploratory approach using talk therapy to identify potential pathological origins of individuals’ transgender identity and gender dysphoria,” says Dr Michael Grey.

Celeste Yim, the first transgender writer in the history of Saturday Night Live, has quit the show. Out.com has this story.

Sam Nicoresti has become the first transgender comedian to win the Best Comedy Show award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her show is called “Baby Doomer.” This story comes from PinkNews.

Jinkx Monsoon wants to play Mystique in a new X-Men project. She says that the character resonates with her as a trans person. Mystique is a shape shifter. PinkNews has this story.

The Advocate has a profile of Shontelle Sparkles, a performer who has made a name in drag without appearing on RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Erin Reed has an opinion piece about why transgender people have turned on Gavin Newsom.

Chess.com reports that Yosha Iglesias has won a women’s chess tournament in France, wining the French national title.

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