TNN: Trans News Now – Sept 2, 2024

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This year, the National Trans Visibility March returned to Washington, D.C., for the first time since the pandemic. More than 400 people attended the march, according to LGBTQ Nation.

On September 14, the organizers of the Women’s Marches of 2016 and 2017 are organizing a Gender Liberation March in Washington, D.C. The Advocate has a look at the planning for this event.

A transgender man and the families of some transgender teens have joined in a lawsuit against the ban on gender-affirming care in South Carolina. This story comes from the Post And Courier.

A federal appeals court upheld Alabama’s right to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for minors, saying in part that the right to such treatments is not “deeply rooted in the nation’s history and traditions.” LGBTQ Nation has this story

Doctors and other health care professionals are no longer providing gender-affirming medical care to patients in Florida, after an appeals court has ruled that the state may enforce its new rules about such treatments. The law requires that only doctors can prescribe hormones, not certified nurses, and that requirement is straining some clinics. This story comes from the Associated Press<.

NBC News reports that providers of gender-affirming medical care are receiving abuse and death threats from strangers because of their occupations.

In light of confusion about what exactly gender-affirming medical care is, The Conversation has an article about what Puberty Blockers are and what they do.

Several Republican Attorneys General are asking the Supreme Court to take up the matter of state bans on transgender athletes. They feel certain that the constitution gives them the right to discriminate against transgender people, according to LGBTQ Nation.

Some states are again revisiting the idea of passing laws to determine which restroom a transgender person may use. An article in The 19th suggests that restrooms in courthouses, for the use of prospective jurors, could be used as a model of how to make restrooms more accessible to transgender people.

Sweet Briar College, a college for women in Virginia, announced this week that it will no longer admit transgender students. Their previous policy was to decide on a case-by-case basis whether to admit each particular transgender applicant. Inside Higher Education has this story.

As the new school year begins, Tennessee’s new law notifying parents that their child has changed genders at school has gone into effect. WKRN< News/a> says that the rollout has been “chaotic,” and says that there have been official complaints.

A referendum to add “gender identity” to New York’s civil rights laws will go before the voters this November. An article in Them reports that anti-transgender Republicans are campaigning to defeat the referendum.

We reported last week on the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. This week, an article in LGBTQ Nation points out that there were no transgender speakers at the convention, and no one spoke specifically about transgender issues.

The Philadelphia Marathon announced this week that they would have equal prize money for the winners of the men’s, women’s and non-binary runners divisions. This article comes from Them.

Although Jools Lebron has turned the phrase “very demure” into a moneymaker for her, she forgot to trademark “demure,” and by the time she did apply for a trademark, someone else had already applied. A publicist quoted in Out.com said that she can challenge this in court, on the grounds that she was using the phrase before the person who applied for the trademark.

We all have heard how hurtful and poorly informed the Cass Review is. Now, the Levy Review has been commissioned, to look at gender-affirming medical care for adults, and it looks like it may be pretty much as bad as the Cass report, according to TransActual.org.

The British government’s ban on puberty blockers has spread to Northern Ireland, and it has become the cause of riots. BBC News has this story.

Trans youth in Britain are upset over the lack of legal protections for transgender students. They occupied the Department of Education building in London as a protest. This story comes from Them.

Lisbeth Wu, a transgender woman who has citizenship in Taiwan and the U.S., has won the right to change her legal gender on her Taiwanese identity documents, without sterilization surgery. You can find this story in Them.

Austin James Tesford Fischer, an Ohio state Representative, might be disqualified from his re-election campaign, because he did not list his former name on his petitions to run for office. This is a law that has been used to stop some transgender candidates, but it is coming back to haunt a Republican now. The Advocate has this story.

An article in The HillThe Hill notes that Donald Trump and J.D. Vance have been using support for transgender rights as a knock on Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, as well as a knock on Democrats in general. It is true that they do support transgender rights, and it is true that voters in general are not that supportive of transgender rights. However, support for transgender rights is not that important a topic to voters in general, and opponents of transgender rights are generally supporters of the Republican candidates already. Supporters of trans rights are already supporters of Democrats. So, this issue neither gains you new voters nor convinces voters who lean towards your opponent that your opponent is dangerous.

We mentioned last week that the state of Texas is now refusing to update the sex on identity documents, including driver’s licenses, of transgender people. LGBTQ Nation is reporting that, so soon after this policy was announced, a detransitioned male has been stuck unable to change his legal gender back to male after having had it changed to female.

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